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month.00.2001 - # Svek2000
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artist : Rob Ellis
album : Music for the Home
year : 2000
label : Leaf Records
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : Bay 15CD
url : www.posteverything.com/leaf/
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Out of it 02:43
02.151195 Six Piece for Fake 01:27
03.Jerky 00:57
04.Fast Forward 00:52
05.Dreaming 01:43
06.Round 02:02
07.Starry Sky 02:00
08.American Dream for Three Pianos 04:27
09.Copy 01:11
10.Music for the Home No 1 After Dinner I 01:34
11.Music for the Home No 2 Bedtime Story 00:33
12.Pinky the Dreamer 00:57
13.Squealer the Con 00:28
14.Music for the Home No 3 02:22
15.Hang Up No 3 03:01
16.Toward Dust Spiral Section 08:29
17.Symphonies of Wind Up Instruments 01:17
18.Chrondine 01:58
19.Parade in Your Palm 03:02
20.Rob-Ellis-Arctic-Crossing 08:35
21.Rob-Ellis-Cedez 02:19
21 tracks | 51:57 mins | 71,6 MB
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Even without bit parts in underground films or sculpture
commissions at Tate Modern, Rob Ellis already has the CV of a
renaissance man. A drummer, arranger and sometime co-producer with
PJ Harvey; responsible for strings on Placebo's latest album;
percussionist with Laika; major domo with Spleen... One would
imagine his restless spirit has had its fill. But no. Here's an
'environmental' album, supposedly comparable to the works of Steve
Reich and Steve Martland. And, in reality, you can only blame Brian
Eno for those intellectual pursuits disguised as ambient albums,
like 'Music For Airports', all those years ago.
Nothing really unpleasant takes place, of course, even if the
opening suite of white noise would suggest a difficult undertaking
is at hand. Ellis has digitally edited and layered piano pieces,
random noises, and curious instruments to form a suite of
impressionist interludes that lull the listener and jar at
appropriate intervals
On 'Parade In Your Palm', he's like Rasputin let loose on a
keyboard, while the excellent and evocative, penultimate, 'Arctic
Crossing' features rhythm for the first time, with drum thwacks
like footfalls in the snow. Heck, 'COPY' even features a typewriter
as backing track. A not altogether disagreeable distraction
--nme.com
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