ARTiST : Pinetop Seven
ALBUM : The Night's Bloom
LABEL : Empyrean Records
GENRE : Indie
ENCODER : Lame 3.90 / APS
QUALiTY : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
RELEASE : Sep-27-2005
STREET : Oct-25-2005
SOURCE : CDDA
TYPE : Album
PLAYTIME : 47:44 min
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
01. The Night's Bloom 01:26
02. Easy Company 05:21
03. Fringe 05:07
04. A Fire Burns at the Foot of Our Bed 02:37
05. Born Among the Born Again 03:27
06. A Mouthful of Expensive Teeth 04:23
07. June 04:45
08. A Page From the Desert 07:19
09. His Aging Miss Idaho 04:26
10. Untitled 00:25
11. Witness 03:17
12. Made A Whisper Out of Me 03:34
13. The Comedy is Ended 01:37
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http://www.pinetopseven.com/
http://www.empyreanrecords.com/
Pinetop Seven formed in 1996 as a loose collective of Chicago
musicians whose lineup has never remained constant for long.
To date, twenty three men and women have contributed to the
records or participated as touring members over the group's 8
year / 5 album history. Despite the ever-changing cast, the
vision has remained constant, and anchored by songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist and singer Darren Richard, Pinetop Seven
continues to quietly assemble compelling collages of sounds
and words, mini-epics of storytelling and snapshots of an
America that Norman Rockwell would never recognize.
The Night's Bloom continues the band's tradition of pairing
abstract storytelling with an unusual musical sense that draws
from many disparate sources: from John Fahey's "american
primitives" like Skip James and Dock Boggs to the avant-garde
musics of Harry Partch and Moondog. From the singer-songwriter
laments of Jackson Frank and Tim Hardin to the haunted
orchestrations of Angelo Badalamenti and Nino Rota. The
cryptic tales are stark and personal, and bring to mind the
narratives of Jim Jarmusch, Raymond Carver and John Fante. As
a testament to the literary quality of the lyrics, several
lines have been featured in the past three best-sellers by
Irish author, John Connolly.
Pinetop Seven's music is cinematic in scope yet intimate and
sincere in its awkward beauty. Their carnival of
instrumentation includes as many found sounds and man-made
instruments as it does legitimate ones. Marimbas, vibraphones,
shoe-horns, loops, drones, accordions, melodicas, pipes,
rhodes, pump organ, and an arsenal of clunky found percussion
- all take their place next to more traditional acoustic
guitars and drums, and are all employed with great
inventiveness and deference to the song. Additionally, for
this recording the band recruited a community chamber string
ensemble to help render the elegant arrangements, giving this
album a dignity and grace never fully realized with previous
albums.
The Night's Bloom was recorded in the band's Chicago attic
space, with fifteen musicians contributing to the effort. As
with previous records, the band handled all engineering
duties, recording on a 16 track analog tape machine and home
computer. Given the unorthodox recording environment, the
sounds of passing trains, sirens, and life from the city's
streets outside bled through the windows and porous brick,
onto the tape, leaving the city's subtle, yet indelible mark
on the music.
Pinetop Seven has headlined across North America and Europe
and has also toured in support of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,
Calexico and Will Oldham, among others. Pinetop Seven's
previous albums have been lauded by the press, including Mojo,
NPR, The Wire, and Uncut.
The Night's Bloom is their 5th release.