ARTIST: Marc Hellner
TITLE: Marriages
LABEL: Peacefrog
GENRE: Lo-Fi
BITRATE: 208kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 43min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-08-15
RIP DATE: 2005-06-28
Track List
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01. Handshaking 4:42
02. Both Of Use 4:59
03. Mine Is Made Of 5:11
04. Last Chances 4:28
05. Nonsense And Happiness 4:48
06. You The Picture 5:38
07. Overpasses 4:06
08. Asleep On The Wing 4:52
09. Orphea 5:03
Release Notes:
Nice laid back album from Marc Hellner, brought to you a little early, so you
can enjoy this chilled out album a little bit more during the summer months.
"Marc HellnerÆs name may be familiar as one half of revered Chicagoan
audio-visual artists Pulseprogramming, or as a touring member of Windy City
regulars LÆAltra. A prolific musician with a latent fondness for ærealÆ
instruments to match the dexterous digital manipulations of his regular combo,
Hellner, by his own admission, ôwrites too much music for just one projectö.
Marriages - ironically given the title - is effectively HellnerÆs debut solo
longplayer; an outlet for the aforementioned compositional overload but also a
thoroughly focused collection that consistently errs toward intimate beauty.
Raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Marc Hellner was a youthful Anglophone fan of
the Smiths along with various British shoegazing types and, most tellingly with
regards to Marriages, art bands such as Talk Talk and Blue Nile which possessed
that rare alchemical knack of matching the sonically esoteric with the
emotionally direct. A move to rainy Portland, Oregon in the 1990s coincided with
the discovery of classical minimalism and works by the likes of, Arvo Part,
Steve Reich and Howard Skempton û influences that have impacted subtly but
significantly on Marriages. Hellner later moved to Chicago, of course, and the
rest is leftfield musical history. "
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