Artist.......: Spiritualized
Album........: Festival Les Inrockuptibles (La Cigale - Paris)
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2013-06-01
Str.date.....: 2012-11-08
Quality......: 222kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://twitter.com/officialSpzd/
track title time
1. Festival Les Inrockuptibles (La Cigale - 75:58
Paris)
* Hey Jane
* Too Late
* Heading For The Top
* Freedom
* I Am What I Am
* Mary
* So Long You Pretty Thing
* Perfect Miracle
* Take Your Time
* Electric Mainline
* Ladies & Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
Runtime 75:58
Size 120.64
Release Notes:
Formed from the ashes of the trance-rockers Spacemen 3, singer/guitarist Jason
Pierce's group Spiritualized did not break away from his prior band's trademark
hypnotic minimalism; instead, they perfected it. Drawing on the continued
influence of the Velvet Underground, La Monte Young, and Steve Reich,
Spiritualized staked out a common ground between minimalism and lush symphonics
-- while powered by simple, repetitious motifs, their songs simultaneously
blossomed into rich, shimmering sonic panoramas inspired by the majestic studio
wizardry of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson. Such seeming contradictions were
essential to the group's alchemy: while the infamous Spacemen 3 tag of "taking
drugs to make music to take drugs to" remained a cornerstone of their craft, at
the same time Spiritualized's very name acknowledged the existence of other
forces, further reflected in their heavy debt to gospel and soul music as well
as an affinity for mantras and devotional hymns.
Although Spiritualized fully emerged after the acrimonious breakup of Spacemen
3, in truth the band's roots extended back to the band's final LP, 1990's
Recurring. A Spacemen 3 album in name only, Recurring was split evenly between
independently recorded work from Pierce and estranged partner Pete "Sonic Boom"
Kember; as a result, while Kember's side presaged his eventual work with
Spectrum, Pierce's half, recorded with most of the musicians who would later
comprise Spiritualized (including guitarist Mark Refoy, bassist Willie B.
Carruthers, and drummer Jon Mattock), predated the orchestral drones that became
the band's hallmark. The first true Spiritualized single, a dramatic reading of
the Troggs' "Anyway That You Want Me," was the final nail in the coffin --
reportedly, Kember was so incensed by the Spacemen 3 logo which appeared on the
disc's jacket that he disbanded the group for good.
In 1991, Spiritualized returned with a string of EPs -- Feel So Sad, Run/I Want
You, and Smile/Sway -- before their long-awaited debut, Lazer Guided Melodies,
finally appeared the following year. The masterful, blissed-out result of
Pierce's obsessive studio fine-tuning and endless remixing, the album was
promoted by the band's slot on the high-profile Rollercoaster tour, where they
appeared with the Jesus and Mary Chain and Curve. An excellent limited-edition
live document, Fucked Up Inside, followed in 1993, trailed by another EP,
Electric Mainline, later in the year.
In 1995, Spiritualized -- now a trio consisting of Pierce, keyboardist/guitarist
Kate Radley, and bassist Sean Cook -- issued Pure Phase, a heady, dense
production which boasted separate mixes from each stereo channel. With 1997's
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Pierce deliberately jettisoned
many of the band's usual points of departure, including drones, tremolos, and
phase tones; recorded with new drummer Damon Reece, it featured a cameo
appearance from legendary New Orleans pianist Dr. John on one track, while
Memphis studio legend Jim Dickinson appeared on another. Other guests included
the Balanescu Quartet (also featured on Pure Phase), the London Community Gospel
Choir, and Spring Heel Jack. The two-disc Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997 live
album followed in late 1998.
The following year, Pierce gutted Spiritualized's lineup, firing Cook, Reece,
and Mike Mooney, who formed Lupine Howl soon after their dismissal; Radley
apparently left soon after she married Verve frontman and solo artist Richard
Ashcroft. Only saxophonist Ray Dickaty and sometime keyboardist Thighpaulsandra
(aka Tim Lewis) remained in the band. Pierce began writing and recording
material for the next Spiritualized album at George Martin's Air Studios and
recruited percussionist Tom Edwards, bassist Martin Shallards, Echoboy drummer
Kev Bales, and guitarist Dogan, from Julian Cope's band, for the sessions. The
new album, Let It Come Down, which featured an even lusher, more involved sound
than Ladies and Gentlemen, was released in mid-2001. The follow-up, 2003's
Amazing Grace, was more of a back-to-basics record. Songs in A and E arrived in
spring 2008. In 2010, the band embarked on a tour performing Ladies and
Gentlemen ... in its entirety, writing new songs influenced by that album -- as
well as by the Beach Boys and Peter Br÷tzmann -- while they were on the road.
Pierce and company laid the songs down at studios in Los Angeles, Wales and
Reykjavik over the course of two years; the results, Sweet Heart Sweet Light,
were released in March 2012.