Artist: ak-momo
Album: return to n.y.
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Genre : indie
Date : feb-14-2005
Year : 2005
Quality : VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / joint-stereo
Songs : 11
Playtime : 35:01 min
Label : Hidden Agenda
Size : 47,8 MB
Url : http://www.parasol.com/labels/hiddenagenda/
Source : cdda
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Releasenotes: From From Mattias Olsson (One half of AK-Momo):
"I met AK at the bar Debaser late July 2003. We didn┤t really
know each other but had met on several occasions due to mutual
friends. We decided there and then that we should try to record
something just for fun. She told me that she had been working
with putting music to film and that she studied video art so I
kind of took for granted that we would be doing something airy
and ambient or perhaps screamy and distortedà
When we first started I thought it might be a good idea to show
her some of the sounds that I usually work with and amongst
them was of course the Optigan. She became super enthusiatic
and we started fiddling around with the disc Classic guitar in
4/4 and within 30 minutes from inserting the disc we had
recorded Greasy spoon. After that I showed her the Mellotron
and did some reverse flute playing. The next track we recorded
was using the romantic strings disc and we spent a bit more
time on that because of the vocal arrangemnt in the choruses.
We didn┤t think too much of it at first. It was just for plain
fun but we booked in a couple of more afternoons and realized
pretty fast that we weren┤t making a " demo " or just
noodlingàWe were making an albumàand after five afternoons we
actually had. All the songs were written there and then. AK had
some snippets of lyrics cut up and ready to go but with no
musical framing.
In August AK went back to London and I got back to my ordinary
work with my bandsàBut in November/december I started finishing
it upàadding some Mellotron and Orchestron and mixing of
course.
One might wonder why this idea didn┤t surface earlier but I
think that it has a lot to do with vocal textures and fitting
other sounds around the Optigan. AK's voice fitted very well in
with the Optigan and Mellotron which gave everything a profile
and face more than just some weird collage typed mess. "
Gorgeous debut by duo comprised of AK von Malmborg on Vocals,
Optigan, and Whistling and Mattias Olsson (Nanook Of The North,
Pineforest Crunch, ─nglagσrd, etc.) on Optigan, Mellotron, and
Orchestran. Recorded at Mattias' Roth HΣndle studio in
Stockholm. A positively spellbinding outing highly recommended
to fans of Portishead, Massive Attack, and Kate Bush.
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01.greasy spoon [02:40]
02.return to n.y. [02:45]
03.women to control [03:15]
04.your mother's faith [03:16]
05.hollywood [01:26]
06.time for the muse [03:46]
07.only the stars [03:26]
08.cold war of the hearts [03:00]
09.world traveller [02:31]
10.human clones [03:32]
11.boys & girls [05:24]
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