Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
City Of Calgary Auction
HIGH PLACES
"On a hill in a bed on a road in a house up a tree on a lake in the woods by the sea by a grave by a chair by a creek by a church on a hill in a bed on a road in a house. "
The acoustic description of landscapes in music has a long tradition. By Charles Ives' Three Places in New England "" 1960 Dunwich Beach, Autumn, "to Brian Eno to Aphex Twin's" Mt Saint Michel "is a melancholy nostalgia often fed from a central component. And although the music of the Brooklyn duo High Places not as explicit as those musicians on certain places (and times) applies, it takes much its effect for a similar effect.
The first regular album "High Places" is like a vollgerümpelter memorabilia attic - in a positive sense, of course. For the wild brings accumulation of sounds but it usually ready to roll towards the song format. Find quite similar playful bands like múm Psapp or go out (in its late phase) more by this song and then enriched with interesting sounds, leave the High Places, despite Mary Pearson's vocals are shaping the loose, wind-blown character of their music to keep the dominance. In a wonderful match with the band name is actually comparable to the feeling, from a high vantage point to be considered from a landscape that has "natural" elements and structures seem grown to merge because of the distance. The depth and layering of details near and far objects - leaves, roads, roofs, twigs, Dunst, power lines, reflections on the water - form a strangely harmonious overall picture. Shaped by precisely this ambiguity and melancholy distance characterizes the best songs of the album. The final track "From Stardust to Sentence" is in every respect the high point of the plate.
The new album "vs. High Places. Mankind puts "Now most of the quasi-filial Playfulness of the debut from the sound and adds details in traditional song and beat structures. The atmosphere is slightly cooler and serene than on the debut, and thus avoids the regressive way Putzigkeitsfalle of many recent " Indietronica " bands.
Rather reminds me of the plate actually Vashti Bunyan's terrific "Just Another Diamond Day" - an album that, although it is in a completely different genre to home, explore, with the same unpretentious means a tremendous amount of emotional depth. 
"On a hill in a bed on a road in a house up a tree on a lake in the woods by the sea by a grave by a chair by a creek by a church on a hill in a bed on a road in a house. "
The acoustic description of landscapes in music has a long tradition. By Charles Ives' Three Places in New England "" 1960 Dunwich Beach, Autumn, "to Brian Eno to Aphex Twin's" Mt Saint Michel "is a melancholy nostalgia often fed from a central component. And although the music of the Brooklyn duo High Places not as explicit as those musicians on certain places (and times) applies, it takes much its effect for a similar effect.
The first regular album "High Places" is like a vollgerümpelter memorabilia attic - in a positive sense, of course. For the wild brings accumulation of sounds but it usually ready to roll towards the song format. Find quite similar playful bands like múm Psapp or go out (in its late phase) more by this song and then enriched with interesting sounds, leave the High Places, despite Mary Pearson's vocals are shaping the loose, wind-blown character of their music to keep the dominance. In a wonderful match with the band name is actually comparable to the feeling, from a high vantage point to be considered from a landscape that has "natural" elements and structures seem grown to merge because of the distance. The depth and layering of details near and far objects - leaves, roads, roofs, twigs, Dunst, power lines, reflections on the water - form a strangely harmonious overall picture. Shaped by precisely this ambiguity and melancholy distance characterizes the best songs of the album. The final track "From Stardust to Sentence" is in every respect the high point of the plate.
The new album "vs. High Places. Mankind puts "Now most of the quasi-filial Playfulness of the debut from the sound and adds details in traditional song and beat structures. The atmosphere is slightly cooler and serene than on the debut, and thus avoids the regressive way Putzigkeitsfalle of many recent " Indietronica " bands.
Rather reminds me of the plate actually Vashti Bunyan's terrific "Just Another Diamond Day" - an album that, although it is in a completely different genre to home, explore, with the same unpretentious means a tremendous amount of emotional depth.
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