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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Carla Torgerson ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: Saint Stranger ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Indie ░▓ ▌
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▓▓▄▀█▓▓▓▀ Label........: Glitterhouse ░▓░ █▓▌
▐█▓▓ ▀▓ Catnr........: grcd-615 ░▓▓▓ ▐█▓▓
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░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ playtime....: 59:23 min ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
▄▄▄▄▄▓▄▄▓████▓▓▄▄▄▄░▄▄ rip.date....: 11/16/2004 ▓ ▐█▓▀ ░ ░▀█▓▌
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▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ▓░░ size........: 79,10 MB ░▒░ ░▓░ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. Pelagic 04:08 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Today Is Tomorrow, Another Day 05:44 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. Dust As We 03:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. Two To Tango 04:26 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Dreh Es Um 09:07 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. The Forever Last Nothing 02:01 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Temperature Dream Thinking Bed 03:14 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. Temperature Dream Thinking Bed Revisited 02:33 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Through December 04:37 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 10. Guardian Angels 06:05 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 11. Rend 07:36 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 12. Bonus 1 04:30 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 13. Bonus 2 01:31 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ While her 20 year collaboration with The Walkabouts ▓▌
▓████▓▌ has been a fruitful segment of her creative life, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Carla says "there are still things as an individual ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that are not expressed quite in the way one would ▓▌
▓████▓▌ like, different avenues and alleys that you'd like ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to explore. Working in a new context allows me to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ do this." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ One aspect of this exploration was Carla's interest ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in sound collage. From her earlier life in film ▓▌
▓████▓▌ making, she realized the power of layering ▓▌
▓████▓▌ different images and sounds and the moods one could ▓▌
▓████▓▌ create. And her palette extends beyond the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ traditional sounds of a musician, for example in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the use of the sounds found in an environment, the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ doors of a subway closing or the rattle of coins. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "I look at everything as if it could be a musical ▓▌
▓████▓▌ instrument. The rhythm track for the song `Dreh Es ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Um┤ for example is in part the shaking of many ▓▌
▓████▓▌ keys." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The musical influences she found coming out in this ▓▌
▓████▓▌ album were memorable ones that resided within her ▓▌
▓████▓▌ for much of her life. From dancing to "ABC" by the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Jackson Five at age ten ("I've always loved ▓▌
▓████▓▌ dancing") to her exposure in her twenties to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Krautrock and punk music during her Freiburg ▓▌
▓████▓▌ University days to musicians like Omar Korshed. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ "Omar took Egyptian music, which I didn't know at ▓▌
▓████▓▌ all, played it on electric guitar and suddenly it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ opened up a whole new world for me. In 1978 I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ bought a cassette tape of his in Luxor and I still ▓▌
▓████▓▌ listen to it regularly. " ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ This spirit of cross-cultural influences is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ something Carla has always enjoyed. "In the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Walkabouts we began by cross-breeding punk and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ folk, and many years later we found ourselves doing ▓▌
▓████▓▌ an album that explored European songwriters." ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ For the new release, Carla's love of gypsy music, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ slavic melodies, electronica, Byzantine and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ psychedelic atmospheres and American traditional ▓▌
▓████▓▌ songs are mixed into a deep swirl. These many paths ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and influences combine to make "Saint Stranger" a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ captivating and divergent musical journey. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Carla herself provides the following observations ▓▌
▓████▓▌ on the inception of "St. Stranger:" ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ "I had worked with Akis Boyatzis and his band ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Sigmatropic on a project in the Spring of 2001 in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ his home country of Greece, on an amazing album ▓▌
▓████▓▌ called "Sixteen Haiku and Other Stories." An ▓▌
▓████▓▌ interesting and ambitious project involving some 18 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ vocalists from all over Europe and the US (a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ veritable Who's Who of the independent music scene) ▓▌
▓████▓▌ doing the poetry of Nobel Laureate George Seferis ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to the music that Akis created for these words. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Under Akis' vision this project had true life; ▓▌
▓████▓▌ smart, sophisticated, astonishing music. This is ▓▌
▓████▓▌ where the seed was planted, we can say. Three years ▓▌
▓████▓▌ later, near the end of a European Walkabouts tour, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ when I was asked to come back to Athens to perform ▓▌
▓████▓▌ live with Sigmatropic, I jumped at the chance. I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ should also mention here a Seattle friend, Michael ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Willet, who was on tour helping us with the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ backline, and I had been working on songs together ▓▌
▓████▓▌ prior to The Walkabouts tour and lyrics we came up ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with were just right for where I saw a new album ▓▌
▓████▓▌ going. Michael and I flew to Athens in November and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ within a week we had given Akis some lyrics to wrap ▓▌
▓████▓▌ some music around and see where things might go. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Needless to say when, after returning to Seattle, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ we received a CD in the mail we knew we were going ▓▌
▓████▓▌ to love working with Akis... ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ "As far as the process of recording goes, many of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the tracks for these songs were recorded by me with ▓▌
▓████▓▌ some of my best friends and favorite musicians in ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the studio here in my house. Michael and I would ▓▌
▓████▓▌ invite someone over and knock ideas or lyrics or ▓▌
▓████▓▌ some guitar chords around and just let things flow ▓▌
▓████▓▌ from there. Much of the vision for this expanding ▓▌
▓████▓▌ project was germinated here. We would send some of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ this on to Akis in Athens where he would add his ▓▌
▓████▓▌ ideas and touches and record some with Sigmatropic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in his own home-based studio. And then send it ▓▌
▓████▓▌ back. This way, by the time we loaded up all the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ gear and mics and guitars on the plane for Athens ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in the Spring of 2004 we all were really close to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the places this thing wanted to go. In Greece we ▓▌
▓████▓▌ got together and within days we were set up and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ recording. Many Greeks found their way onto this ▓▌
▓████▓▌ album and I must say I am stunned by the level of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ musicianship these people brought to the material. ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Things were really rolling fast very shortly and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the material was really taking on a life of its ▓▌
▓████▓▌ own. We all felt something special was happening ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and truly loved the process. It was very ▓▌
▓████▓▌ collaborative, very supportive and very democratic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in many ways. Although we each would have ideas and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ offer them to the process, ultimately these songs ▓▌
▓████▓▌ came together as one voice. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ "Yeah, it was crazy at times, and the Greeks always ▓▌
▓████▓▌ like to remind people that "Chaos" is a Greek word ▓▌
▓████▓▌ -- we found plenty of chaos while doing this, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ believe me -- but it's been amazing and we pulled ▓▌
▓████▓▌ it off. Sitting here wrapping up the artwork I ▓▌
▓████▓▌ can't believe how much I enjoyed it all and it says ▓▌
▓████▓▌ quite a lot when I say I would do it the same way ▓▌
▓████▓▌ all over again..." ▓▌
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