Artist.......: King Midas Sound / Fennesz
Album........: Edition 1
Label........: Ninja Tune
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: ZENCD225
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2015-10-16
Str.date.....: 2015-09-18
Quality......: 262kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://ninjatune.net/
track title time
Disc 1/2
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1. Mysteries 4:42
2. On My Mind 3:32
3. Waves 7:24
4. Loving or Leaving 5:50
5. Melt 5:10
6. Lighthouse 5:03
7. Above Water 13:55
8. We Walk Together 5:43
9. Our Love 8:07
Disc 2/2
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1. Mysteries 4:44
2. On My Mind 3:34
3. Waves 7:21
4. Loving or Leaving 5:32
5. Melt 5:08
6. Lighthouse 5:26
7. Above Water 13:54
8. We Walk Together 5:55
9. Our Love 8:06
Runtime 119:06
Size 223.74
Release Notes:
King Midas Sound is comprised of Kevin Martin (also known for his work underThe
Bug moniker), singer/poet Roger Robinson, and vocalist Kiki Hitomi. Their
landmark 2009 debut Waiting For You on Hyperdub quickly established them as
falling sonically somewhere between sub-electronic lovers' rock, dub and the
bleakest, slowest mutation of narco hip-hop, while on the live front they were
nestled somewhere between the apocalypse and FX-drenched, shoegaze laments. In
both arenas they are known as a brooding sonic force. With a move over to Ninja
Tune plus the release of 2013's lauded Aroo single and in particular its b-side
"Funny Love" an even deeper sense of spaciousness began to set in. That track's
dramatic tonal shift acted as a catalyst for the idea of a conceptual
collaborative project to be born. Hence this first edition (in a series of
four), appropriately titled Edition 1.
Looking even further back it does seems fitting that the person (Kevin Martin)
who once curated a compilation called Isolationism is one of the key
contributors behind this truly mesmeric examination of melancholy and
desolation, Edition 1 features collaborator number one, Austrian guitarist /
electronic musician Fennesz. His 2001 album Endless Summer was a swirling mix of
electric tonal guitars and sweeping emotional shifts which inspired and sparked
an admiration within Kevin and Roger to bring him onboard. Utilizing improvised
guitar tracks, samples, and unreleased material from Fennesz'sarchive, Edition 1
took shape within the KMS framework. In the wake of Kevin's last Bug album
Angels & Devils, he wanted to create a record focused on kaleidoscopic sonic
beauty, bathed in the bluest emotional lyricism. This record reflects the
group's past, present, and a truly extraordinary future.
Edition 1 is a tide coming in. A fog reaching out into nothing, and
encapsulating everything. An ultimate parting note drifting into absolute
loneliness, swept up in a sumptuously blurred, dronal haze. Hallucinatory tone
poems of heartbreak, despair, disappearance, and displacement. Seductively
spatial sketches of long goodbyes. Music to cling to or to be used to move past.
Sounds set adrift on their own tonal plain and reigned back in by Roger & Kiki's
complimentary, yet extremely different deliveries. Cosmic blues meets a siren's
song. A zonal re-examination of "It's Raining Today" or an audio representation
of a Sugimoto "Seascapes" photo... A high water mark forever etched to memory.
Additionally, watch for these two sonic heavyweights and their no-holds-barred
performance reputations to bring this collaboration to the live stage starting
with European dates in the autumn.
Edition 2 through 4 to follow, with collaborators kept under wraps, each one to
be a genre-stretching and boundary-pushing surprise, packaged with a conceptual
continuity.
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