Steven R. Smith - The Death Of Last Year's Man (Emperor Jones, 1999 (2000 reissue))

1 I Tried To Leave You
2 Death Of A Disco Dancer
3 Morning Dew
4 Regen Volt, Soka Lesz

Recueil de deux morceaux parus sur un 45t épuisé sorti sur Autopia et de deux inédits, soit quatre reprises au total...

Four covers done by Mr. Smith that were released previously only on vinyl, two from a now out of print 7" and two never before released tracks. If you've heard Steven R. Smith's other recordings you're probably aware that he excels in the art of whiskey soaked, tape saturated drone rock. His cover of Leonard Cohen's "I Tried To Leave You", which starts off the disk certainly testifies to that. All the best moments of the Dirty Three, but with the balls of the Velvet Underground and somehow wrapping into it all the garagey psychedelia of Six Organs of Admittance or Vibracathedral Orchestra. Along with the Cohen' track are covers of the Smiths ("Death of a Disco Dancer"), the Grateful Dead's old standby "Morning Due" (equally brilliantly liberated a la Einsturzende Neubauten's version) and a cover of Muzsikas' "Regen Volt, Soka Lesz." And, we might add, all done as instrumentals. For those of you who haven't heard his albums yet, this is a really great introduction to Smith's mysterious and romantic sonic world!

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Steven R. Smith - Tableland (Emperor Jones, 2001)

Tableland (16:25)
Blood Partridges (6:07)
A Celebration (4:10)
Caprock And Shelf (5:24)
Glade (2:47)

Le premier morceau d'un quart d'heure s'écoule comme un long flot zen de guitare, piano et harmonica, le reste de l'album sonne comme les morceaux psyché de Roy Montgomery (on va en mettre bientôt), tandis que Caprock and Shelf ressemble à une bo d'Ennio Morricone tournant au drone.

Steven R. Smith speaks in a language that hasn't been explored to death already. He's one of the few artists making instrumental music who isn't traveling familiar paths.

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