s w e e t b e a t s
december.13.2000 - #375
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artist : Juryman
album : The Hill
year : 2000
label : SSR
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : SSR224
url : www.crammed.be/ssr
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.The Hill 04:59
02.The Morning 06:03
03.The Pilot 03:28
04.The Ethiopian 05:03
05.The Killer 04:23
06.The Somme 04:46
07.To Sleep 03:58
08.The Ghost Hunter 04:48
09.The Woven 04:29
10.The Moot 05:07
11.The Enquiry 04:29
12.The Desert 05:28
12 tracks | 57:01 mins | 78,4 MB
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The release of Ian Simmonds/Juryman's previous two albums has
provoked the emergence of a fanatic core of followers, a kind of
international secret society whose most eminent members include the
likes of Gilles Peterson, Kruder & Dorfmeister - he's just done a
remix for Peter Kruder - or the Compost gang... not to mention the
press, who hailed him as some kind of nu - electronic - jazz -
messiah... but "The Hill", his uniquely deep new album, goes way
beyond those categories: it's a self-contained universe, full of
lights and shadows... the intense & emotional universe of an
English dervish intoxicated with this world and its tighly
interwoven strands of great beauty + great melancholy...
OK, OK, enough hyperbolism -- we do tend to wax lyrical on the
subject of Juryman... some plain facts then: "The Hill" contains
twelve tracks, four of which are deep electrojazz instrumentals,
while the eight others are graced with the voices of Ian Simmonds,
Alison Goldfrapp (who has appeared alongside Orbital, Tricky and
Spacer) & Trinidad poet Roger Robinson. Apart from contributions by
Spacer, by drummer Tim Weller and a couple of other guests, all the
programming, the profound bass guitar lines and the other
instrumental parts were performed by The Juryman aka Ian Simmonds,
who incidentally was a member of influential mid-90's band The
Sandals. --crammed.be
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