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jeudi 8 janvier 2009

Jessica Bailiff & Annelies Monseré - Untitled EP (Morc Records, 2008)



1 Common Ground (2:24)
2 Let Time Breathe (3:16)
3 Like Yesterday (6:03)
4 Shadow (4:53)

Quelque part entre la ballade folk et le drone folk à la Fursaxa... Magnifique...

For this gorgeous release, Kranky's Jessica Bailiff joins Belgian songwriter Annelies Monsere for a collaboration over four tracks of adventurous songwriting. The odd, zoned-out vocals of 'Common Ground' are set against a background noise of buzzing synthesizer tones and sombre cello strokes plotting out unfinished melodies. You might compare it to the droning folk songs of Fursaxa, or Islaja's experimental, misshapen songs. After a silky a cappella beginning, 'Let Time Breathe' accumulates a distorted chord sequence played out on electric guitar, giving a greater shape to the song than the unearthly drones of that first piece. The duo have a closer run in with a more recognisable kind of folk with the sinister, stop-start dynamics of 'Like Yesterday', held together by sparse acoustic guitar plucks and tentative string swells. The EP comes to an all-too premature close on 'Shadow', a beautiful - if surprisingly conventional - ballad, with bright synth oscillations cutting through the moroseness of the vocals and those bedraggled acoustic guitar strums. Here's hoping these two get around to recording a full album soon. Absolutely gorgeous.
Boomkat

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Jessica Bailiff and Alan Sparhawk - Jessica Bailiff and Alan Sparhawk (Ypsilanti Records, 2001)


A Crush, version 2


B Highwire



Jessica Bailiff et son découvreur, Alan Sparhawk, de Low...

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samedi 3 janvier 2009

Low - A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities (Chairkickers' Union, 2004)


CD1-1 Lullaby (Demo) (10:06)
CD1-2 Cut (Demo) (5:41)
CD1-3 Heartbeat (4:08)
CD1-4 Peanut Butter Toast And American Bandstand (2:23)
CD1-5 Tired (5:11)
CD1-6 I Started A Joke (4:28)
CD1-7 The Plan (Demo) (2:50)
CD1-8 Prisoner (Demo) (6:10)
CD1-9 Prisoner (3:48)
CD1-10 Tomorrow One (4:28)
CD1-11 Turning Over (7:49)
CD1-12 Bright (1:45)
CD1-13 Walk You Out (4:46)
CD1-14 Tear Down (4:48)
CD1-15 Standby (5:11)
CD1-16 David & Jude (1:22)
CD1-17 Cheek (3:24)

CD2-1 Venus (3:44)
CD2-2 Boyfriends & Girlfriends (6:06)
CD2-3 Surf (2:31)
CD2-4 No Need (Version 1) (5:03)
CD2-5 Be There (8:28)
CD2-6 Lift (5:45)
CD2-7 Joan Of Arc (3:21)
CD2-8 Long Long Long (3:50)
CD2-9 Lion/Lamb (Demo) (3:50)
CD2-10 Will The Night (Demo) (2:47)
CD2-11 Last Breath (4:47)
CD2-12 Joan Of Arc (20 Below Mix) (3:25)
CD2-13 Old Man Song (3:48)
CD2-14 Try Try Try (0:37)
CD2-15 Lord, Can You Hear Me? (6:24)
CD2-16 Venus (Time Stereo Dub Mix) (3:51)
CD2-17 Those Girls (Song For Nico) (3:06)
CD2-19 Words (In Misfits Style) (2:50)
CD2-20 Turn (In Misfits Style) (1:03)
CD2-21 Over The Ocean (In Misfits Style) (1:36)

CD3-1 I Remember (3:22)
CD3-2 Kindly Blessed (2:17)
CD3-3 Blue-Eyed Devil (5:02)
CD3-4 Sleep At The Bottom (4:54)
CD3-5 When You Walked (3:55)
CD3-6 Back Home Again (5:20)
CD3-7 Don't Drop The Baby (4:02)
CD3-8 Surfer Girl (3:35)
CD3-9 Blowin' In The Wind (3:49)
CD3-10 Open Arms (4:02)
CD3-11 ...I Love (2:45)
CD3-12 Carnival Queen (5:13)
CD3-13 Overhead (4:33)
CD3-14 Don't Carry It All (4:13)
CD3-15 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (3:58)
CD3-16 Because You Stood Still (5:33)
CD3-17 Fearless (6:20)

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vendredi 2 janvier 2009

Low / Vibracathedral Orchestra - Split (Misplaced Music, 2002)


A Low - David & Jude (1:18)
B Vibracathedral Orchestra - Stole Some Sentimental Jewellery (4:58)

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mercredi 17 décembre 2008

Dakota Suite - This River Only Brings Poison (Talitres Records, 2002)


1 The Lepers Companion
2 Boats In A Sunken Ocean
3 The Finished River
4 Let’s Share Wounds
5 Verdriet
6 Sand Fools The Shoreline
7 Let’s Be On Our Own
8 The Ferris Wheels Of Winter
9 We Made It Rain
10 How Safe We Must Seem
11 Pillows In The Water
12 Matching Eyes And Hands
13 The Space Around Your Sleeping

Chris Hooson, maître à penser de DAKOTA SUITE, aidé par deux ex-American Music Club, réunit son immense pouvoir évocateur et sa capacité à générer en l'auditeur des émotions et un ressenti qui dépassent largement le simple plaisir auditif.

D'abord révélé par ses sombres pièces instrumentales, DAKOTA SUITE a ensuite adjoint des textes intimement liés aux espaces sonores et aux envolées crées avec l'aide d'un violon, d'un piano, d'une guitare acoustique. La voix de Hooson, calme et attendrissante, se mêle aux instruments et s'y confond.

This River Only Brings Poison est une alternance entre instrumentaux proches des compositions de Sylvain Chauveau ou des Rachels et morceaux chantés. Toujours avec une même précision, Chris Hooson dépeint des paysages d'une beauté incomparable, des champs dévastés, des étendues d'eau se perdant vers l'infini. L'eau est un thème récurrent chez DAKOTA SUITE : on peut s'y noyer, voguer, sentir l'air du large nous caresser le visage. " Sand fools the shoreline ", " Boats in a sunken ocean " ou encore " The finished river " illustrent cette saine obsession pour le flux et le reflux, pour les embruns et la marée. Une obsession qui se canalise à travers une musique sous tension, sombre, tantôt dépouillée (à la Smog, James Yorkston, Palace, Knife in the water), tantôt plus orchestrée.

Avec un harmonium, une trompette, un mellotron, Chris Hooson nous offre des points de vue sublimes et uniques sur une mer d'amertume. Les photos du livret, prise par sa femme, jouent sur les contrastes et illustrent habilement la musique de DAKOTA SUITE.

This River Only Brings Poison, parfois jazzy, permet un discernement étonnant entre ce qui est simplement beau et ce qui laisse sans voix. Parfois à pleurer, toujours frissonant, cet album atteint des sommets de profondeur et, par deux fois au moins (Pillows in the Water, The ferris wheels of winter), saisit la perfection à pleines mains.

Soit Dit en Passant


Leeds based musician Chris Hooson is a very prolific man. He seems to brim over with ideas for songs and projects. And although he works a full job as a adviser in a probation center he and his band Dakota Suite still find enough time to put all these songs on magnetic tape.

Over the years Glitterhouse has released a singles-compilation ("Alone With Everybody"/98), a collection of instrumental pieces for piano and assorted instruments ("Navigators Yard"/99), another instrumental one recorded with a chamber orchestra ("The Way I Am Sick"/01), a mini album ("Morning Lake Forever"/00), and two "real" full-lenght albums: "Songs For A Barbed Wire Fence" in 1998 and "Signal Hill" (2000). Without wanting to dismiss all the other projects, "This River Only Brings Poison" is Dakota Suite's third album.

Recording were started a year ago when Chris Hooson was on holidays in America. Being friend of American Music Club he called Bruce Kaphan and asked if they could visit his studio to work on a few demos. They recorded three songs and made an appointment for March 2002. The rest of the songs were completed with Bruce and Tim Mooney (both ex-American Music Club members). Some finishing touches were added in Leeds, Fremont and Nashille (with Derri Daugherty who also mixed and mastered Buddy and Julie Miller's record).

The result is the perfect summary of everything Dakota Suite tried to achieve. A merging of soul, country and jazz, sweet horns are mixed delicate steel and plaintive strings, a blend of Chris Hooson's influences, people as diverse as Bill Evans, Elenei Karaindrou and Tom Waits.

Theres nobody in Britain making a finer fusion of lush instrumentation and 3am moods than Dakota Suite. Soundscapes for a desolate and fractured heart.

Talitres

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Low - Santa's Coming Over (Sub Pop, 2008)


A Santa's Coming Over
B The Coming Of Jah

et pour Noël 2008, Low se met au reggae....

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dimanche 14 décembre 2008

Low - Christmas (Chairkickers' Union, 1999)


1 Just Like Christmas (3:08)
2 Long Way Around The Sea (4:38)
3 Little Drummer Boy (4:52)
4 If You Were Born Today (4:50)
5 Blue Christmas (3:22)
6 Silent Night (4:23)
7 Taking Down The Tree (2:44)
8 One Special Gift (1:48)

bientôt Noël...

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