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Paul Duncan
To An Ambient Hollywood
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.date Jun-22-2004
.style Acoustic-Electronic
.label Hometapes
.cat.no. HT005
.source CDDA
.type Album
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 50,1 MB
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"To An Ambient Hollywood" is Paul Duncan's debut album, a document of
music made and recorded at his former home in Savannah, Georgia, over
the period of a year. Guitar, vibraphone, bass guitar, drums, pedal
steel, trumpet, saxophone, piano, air organ, and synthesizers, as well
as PaulÆs arresting voice, combine to create 40 minutes of carefully
constructed music - the kind that manipulates your brain and heart
simultaneously. The songs move back and forth; the purely instrumental
flows into beautifully integrated vocal tracks. Simple guitar loops give
way to elegantly constructed arrangements, which act as if theyÆve been
there the whole time, poised and waiting. Paul performed the majority of
the instrumentation and wrote all of the arrangements for the guest
musicians (the album features Matt Crum and Roberto Lange of ROM
[Counterflow Recordings], as well as Savannah musicians and friends).
Paul also managed to record and mix the entire album, often rushing
between his computer and the makeshift vocal booth across the room. The
personalized nature of the creation process has resulted in a seemingly
unavoidable sense of intimacy.
The lyrics hold on to that humanity, too, hinting at the awkwardness
that tends to accompany ordinary life. To An Ambient Hollywood is about
the subtle ridiculousness of modern existence, a collective waking dream
told in song. The sequence of tracks flows like the scenes of a film,
interludes carrying one between musical climaxes. Song titles like film
life, has-been actor, and letdownville indicate a conscious
consideration of the nature of Hollywood and its parallels to the
average human day-to-day. This quality is visually reinforced by J
Penry's construction paper drawings, which cover the CD's packaging. J
has devoted most of his life to creating work that suggests our common
human absurdity and the dichotomy of a culture that tends to take itself
too seriously and not seriously enough, all at once. His art captures
the essence of people and situations that Paul conveys with his music.
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01 1 in 22 04:31
02 ghost of a memory 04:27
03 film life 01:11
04 swam an ocean 03:50
05 call it work 04:03
06 has-been actor 03:10
07 don't look now 03:38
08 asinine feelings 03:30
09 as the ship sank 02:20
10 the sharks were gentle 02:11
11 letdownville 03:50
12 are you embarassed 02:26
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39:07 min
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