Mice Parade - Candela
Label.........................: Fat Cat
Genre.........................: Indie
StoreDate.....................: Jan-29-2013
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 70.18 MB
Total Playing Time............: 39:12
Release Notes:
Candela is the stunning new full-length from Mice Parade, a bright and
vivd LP that omnivorously references source material from across the
globe and rebuilds it all into the distinctive, inimitable voice that
Mice Parade has come to represent. Generally regarded as the solo
project of New YorkÆs Adam Pierce û though Pierce often engages
carefully-selected guest musicians for each new release û Mice Parade is
now in its second decade: musically developing, its personnel expanding
and shrinking, and its influences and marker points becoming
increasingly varied and widespread. Candela is the seventh album to bear
the Mice Parade name, and marks an exciting new stop-off in the bandÆs
already musically greedy history.
Though Candela is named after a late-night bar in Madrid (known as a
flamenco guitar playersÆ Mecca) with a colourful history, it will come
as no surprise to followers of the band that Adam Pierce is a formally
schooled ethnomusicologist. Previous Mice Parade palettes have
conscientiously borrowed elements of sound from West African Highlife,
Brazilian Jazz, Eastern chord patterns and scales, Latin percussive
timbres and rhythms, among countless other unexpected sources. It is all
indelibly bound together as the bandÆs personality and magnetism: each
new release runs like a personal, geographical study of PierceÆs
voluminous knowledge of music from across the world and his enthusiasm
for unusual sounds and virtuoso performing. We have read û in notes for
earlier releases û references to Bola Sete, Paco de Lucia, Tsegue-Maryam
Guebrou, Brian Eno, Buddy Rich, Can, My Bloody Valentine alongside
innumerable further names.
A richly-produced home recording at PierceÆs converted house studio in
upstate New York (described by Pierce as ôa cozy place at the edge of a
forestö which over the last two years has also served Animal Collective,
Frightened Rabbit, Tom Brosseau, Ensemble and others in various
capacities), Candela represents at once Mice ParadeÆs most adventurous
release and its closest to pure pop music. From the dense,
rhythmically-intense æCurrentsÆ (featuring Temporary ResidenceÆs
Caroline Lufkin), and its funk brio to æPretendingÆs devestatingly
pretty drumkit / electric guitar interplay (Pierce is a hugely
accomplished percussionist, flamenco guitar player and general
multi-instrumentalist), there are heady moments of pop brilliance
amongst abstract, restrained eloquence. A rare record that reveals more
with each listen, the ear is piqued by contrasting elements on every run
through the length of each track: a melody line here, percussion pattern
here, a melancholic and startlingly visual lyrical phrase elsewhere.
Candela was mixed and recorded by Pierce with the assistance of Jeremy
Backofen (Felice Brothers).
The live band is a force to be reckoned with; they will be taking their
2 drumkits and 7 people out on the road worldwide this autumn and
winter, hitting the UK and Europe shortly after a set of dates on home
soil.
Tracklisting
01. Listen Hear Glide Dear 2:35
02. Currents 4:29
03. The River Has A Tide 3:08
04. Pretending 4:43
05. The Chill House 4:57
06. Candela 2:59
07. Look See Dream Me 4:12
08. Gente Intersante 3:46
09. Contessa 4:32
10. Warm Hand In Narnia 3:51
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