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: Artist: Edward Cake :
: Album: Downtown Puff :
: Tracks: 10 :
: Time: 36:39 hours :
: Bitrate: 192kbit True Stereo :
: Source: CDDA :
: Genre: Indie :
: Label: lil chief :
: Str.Date: 06/00/2004 :
: Rip.Date: 06/22/2004 :
: Ripper: NuHs :
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.. About This Release .......................................
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: Downtown Puff is the long-awaited release of former :
: Bressa Creeting Cake member, Edmund Cake. :
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: From the first seconds of this album, it is clear that :
: he has a new approach to share with the listening :
: public. From the humourous, off-centre lyrics to the :
: fresh and subtly layered musical backing, Downtown Puff :
: is an album that tempts the listener with pop hooks, :
: only to lead them on into an exotic wilderness. :
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: Obsessed from an early age with the production and :
: manipulation of musical sounds, CakeÆs experience of :
: recording a solo album struck him as a happy return to :
: the solitary experimentation of childhood. "When you :
: are putting together a recording on your own thereÆs no :
: feedback or dialogue to influence creative decisions. I :
: could get completely lost in the details of one aspect :
: of a recording and experiment for days with a :
: particular idea". :
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: Cake recalls a boyhood incident when he was caught :
: modifying his fatherÆs prized Pye radiogram in the back :
: of their cluttered suburban garage. By disabling the :
: turntable he managed to convert the fifties audio :
: classic into an amplifier for his newly acquired casio :
: VL tone keyboard. This inspired audio synthesis could :
: be seen as the beginning of a music career defined as :
: much by technical experimentation as song writing. Over :
: fifteen years later, the same deconstructed vl tone :
: makes an appearance on Downtown Puff (Gunga) along with :
: numerous other exploratory interventions into the world :
: of recorded sound. :
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: Much of the material on the album was devised while :
: Cake was living in a third-floor studio space on Gore :
: Street in AucklandÆs red-light district. This :
: particular audio environment û with its incessant :
: street brawls, strip club pop and Doobie Brothers hits :
: played by the covers band in the 24-hour bar downstairs :
: û provided a peculiar backdrop for the evolution of :
: delicate instrumentals on tracks such as Airshow and :
: Watching Me. It was here too that Cake recorded the :
: one-take improvised vocal for My Son the Harpist, an :
: intentionally free-form lyric which reveals itself to :
: be the story of a complex father/son relationship in a :
: fictitious Pacific village. Since demolished by a :
: property developer called Carpark 80, as part of the :
: dock area clean-up initiated by the Britomart transport :
: project, this setting also provided lyrical inspiration :
: for Oh Baby Bear û an ode to AucklandÆs outmoded :
: transport system. Although the album is being released :
: as a solo project, it represents a multitude of musical :
: collaborations. Each track was developed as a separate :
: entity and most musicians were only involved in one or :
: two tracks. As the album was produced and recorded by :
: Cake many of the people who worked on the album over :
: the past five years will be hearing the finished :
: product for the first time when Downtown Puff is :
: released in June. Two of these collaborators are Geoff :
: Maddock and Joel Wilton, the other sides of the :
: creative triangle which made up the short-lived Flying :
: Nun phenomenon Bressa Creeting Cake. Since the :
: dissolution of the band soon after the release of their :
: acclaimed (self-titled) album in 1997 Geoff and Joel :
: have found popular and critical success with :
: Goldenhorse. What exactly Edmund Cake has been up to in :
: the intervening years is anyoneÆs guess, but Downtown :
: Puff may just provide a few clues à :
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: In New Zealand stores and available through the lil' :
: chief online store mid-June :
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: http://www.lilchiefrecords.com :
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.. Track List ...............................................
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: 01 Secret Girl 03:16 :
: 02 We Live Like Kings 02:11 :
: 03 Golden Man 04:51 :
: 04 Gunga 03:27 :
: 05 My Son The Harpist 04:39 :
: 06 You're Watching Me 03:10 :
: 07 The Airshow 05:08 :
: 08 Silverdale 04:16 :
: 09 Beautiful Sleep 02:33 :
: 10 Oh Baby Bear 03:08 :
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