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* Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal *
Artist..: The Durutti Column
Album...: Another Setting
GENRE...: Alternative
STYLE...: Avantgarde, Ambient, Dream Pop
YEAR....: 2015
LABEL...: Factory Benelux
ENCODER.: LAME 3.98.4 -V0 TRACKS..: 17
BITRATE.: 229 kbps avg SOURCE..: CD
QUALITY.: 44.1kHz/Stereo SIZE....: 128.00 MB
URL..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Durutti_Column
- TRACKLIST
1 Prayer 3:27
2 Response 1:32
3 Bordeaux 3:34
4 For A Western 2:50
5 The Beggar 4:58
6 Francesca 3:03
7 Smile In The Crowd 5:04
8 You've Heard It Before 4:39
9 Dream Of A Child 5:23
10 Second Family 2:39
11 Spent Time 4:21
12 I Get Along Without You Very Well 3:38
13 Love Fading 4:08
14 For Noriko 4:06
15 Bordeaux (Live At WOMAD) 6:05
16 The Beggar (Live At La Cigale) 4:37
17 Piece For Out Of Tune Grande Piano 12:55
Total Playtime: 76:59
http://www.discogs.com/The-Durutti-Column-Another-Setting/release/7414934
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Tracks 1 to 11 originally released as the album Another Setting on Factory
(FACT 74) and Factory Benelux (FBN 30) in August 1983.
Track 12 released as a 7" single on Factory (FACT 64) in June 1983. Recorded
at Revolution Studio, Cheadle Hulme.
Track 13 and 14 released as a 7" single Dedications for Japan on Japan
Records (7 JAS-8) in July 1985.
Track 15 recorded live at WOMAD Festival (St Austell) in August 1988 and
released on the WOMAD Live EP on Factory (FACD 234) in 1989.
Track 16 recorded at La Cigale, Paris, 24 October 1988 and released on the
compilation Dry (MASO 90024).
Track 17 released on the 12" EP Deux Triangles on Factory Benelux (FBN 10) in
October 1982. Recorded in Brussels.
A remastered CD edition of Another Setting, the third album by The Durutti
Column originally issued by Factory and Factory Benelux in 1983.
Another Setting was recorded at Strawberry Studio in Stockport and produced
by Chris Nagle, a favourite engineer of Martin Hannett. The 11 track album
contains several acknowledged Durutti classics, notably haunting instrumental
Prayer (burnished with cor anglais by Maunagh Fleming) and The Beggar, an
unusually muscular vocal song and probably the closest Vini Reilly has edged
to rock music. Elsewhere Smile in the Crowd would be covered by Depeche Mode
mainman Martin Gore on his 1989 solo project Counterfeit.
Bonus tracks on FBN 30 CD include exemplary live versions of The Beggar and
Bordeaux, plus non-album single I Get Along Without You Very Well, a Hoagy
Carmichael cover sung by Lindsay Reade, the former wife of Factory foreman
Tony Wilson. Also included are two tracks issued on a highly collectible
Japan-only 7" single, Love Fading and For Noriko, as well as Piece for Out of
Tune Grande Piano from an earlier EP on Factory Benelux, Deux Triangles.
The CD is packaged in a 6 panel digipack on white reverse board, restoring
the original artwork by Mark Farrow with cover paintings by Jackie Williams.
Core album remaster by Kier Stewart.
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When compared to other Durutti Column releases such as LC, The Return of the
Durutti Column and The Guitar and Other Machines, 1983's Another Setting is
generally cruelly cast aside as the runt of the litter. Originally pressed on
cheap quality vinyl and mastered at half the standard volume, Another Setting
looked beautiful but sounded rotten - I know, I went through five of them
before finding a copy that didn't sound like it was made of cardboard and
being played with a barbed-wire stylus. If ever there is one album of Durutti
Column's that deserved a decent vinyl reissue, this is it. Still waiting.
For now though, Factory Benelux have grabbed the baton with this
beautifully-packaged digital reissue, this time with some rare extras added
to the fold. The album in question is a dark experience, featuring Reilly's
guitar mixed way too quiet, his vocals indecipherable all too often, Bruce
Mitchell's resonating percussion just a bit too loud or not loud enough, some
lovely brass and woodwind touches buried in the swamp and a few of DC's most
enduring songs sounding decidedly unfinished. For a Chris Nagle mix, it's
woefully understated. Beautiful, but too shy - a few months previously,
Factory's jewel in the crown New Order had just unleashed their sonically
enlivening Power Corruption and Lies album. In contrast, that third album
syndrome had just kicked in where Durutti Column were concerned. But ignore
past discrepancies and former critical analysis - here is another Another
Setting.
Key tracks include the pastoral classical opener Prayer and its sister track
Second Family (bring on the cor anglais), the powerfully observational The
Beggar and the almost-pop You've Heard It Before, while the original studio
readings of Bordeaux (later re-recorded in sprightly electro fashion for The
Guitar and Other Machines) and the funereal Smile in the Crowd (covered by
Martin Gore) are as bleak as it gets. Conversely, For a Western and Francesca
rank as two of Reilly's most simplistic yet prettiest little pieces of joy.
Amongst the extras are both sides of the ultra-rare mortgage-melting Japanese
7", Love Fading (basically, A Silence in edited form) and For Noriko (typical
echoey piano and drum-machine based song, not unlike the Short Songs For
Pauline era). There are two (great) live mixes of The Beggar (Paris La
Cigale) and Bordeaux (from Womad 1988 - that whole concert needs issuing
properly) as well as the 12-minute Piece For Out of Tune Grande Piano and the
ill-conceived I Get Along Without You Very Well cover.
Sumptuously-packaged in a fold-out sleeve starring the original watercolours
of Jackie Mitchell (Bruce's wife) and sounding as fresh as a daisy, Another
Setting deserves far more plaudits than its had - here, in another setting,
is your ideal starting point for re-discovering.
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