If Thousands - Yellowstone
ARTIST.....: If Thousands
TITLE......: Yellowstone
LABEL......: Chairkickers' Union
URL........: www.ifthousands.com
RIP DATE...: Sep-25-2005
STORE DATE.: Feb-04-2003
GENRE......: Instrumental
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 89,6 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Yellowstone 12:43
02 - Isolation 05:41
03 - With All The Saints 07:57
04 - The Heat, The Hot 04:22
05 - We Sent H.L.R.E 08:52
06 - Your Weight 03:54
07 - Age Of Violence 05:31
08 - Radio Is Fine 07:08
09 - In Our Time 02:17
10 - Your Covers 02:39
11 - Lost Christmas 03:56
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65:00 min
Release Notes:
www.chairkickersmusic.com
If Thousand's 2nd full-length album. Recorded at Sacred Heart
Church in Duluth, MN by Eric Swanson & Alan Sparhawk. Mixed by
Alan, mastered by Tom Herbers at Third Ear. Released on Alan's
label, Chairkickers' Music. Recorded in 4 days - they still work
fast.
This recording contains intentional extreme low end on some tracks
so please be careful.
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If thousands is Aaron Molina and Christian McShane. The two began
creating sounds in 2000 as an experimental music project when
McShane, a classically trained vocalist/guitarist and Molina, a
punk bassist, decided to abandon their known instruments and
perform with instruments they had no idea how to play. They chose
this path in order to seek new musical territory through a naive
approach. The music if thousands creates has been described as
atmospheric, ambient, experimental, found sound, trance-hypnotic,
noise and drone, among many others. The band resides in Duluth, MN
yellowstone, if thousands second full-length recording and debut
on Chairkickers' Union Music, is a furthering of their musical
evolution. Recorded in two days at Sacred Heart Studio, if
thousands chose the renovated diocese in order to experiment with
its deep resonance and natural reverb. Inky-plinky game boy music
this is not. Continuously pushing musical boundaries and never
what you'd expect, if thousands chooses to perform "incorrectly"
on antiquated analog and acoustic instruments; one track even
includes the background tape loop of a sampled fetal monitor from
a expectant mother in her third trimester.
There's an organic feel to their music; something familiar,
something beautiful and sometimes a bit scary, like standing in a
field while a massive thunderstorm builds on the horizon. Do you
stay or do you run for shelter? if thousands leaves the choice to
you.
If thousands is planning their seventh recording & second
Chairkickers album to be released in 2006.
PRESS
"...an exercise in complete yet controlled abandonment...." -
Losing Today Magazine
"It's the work of a group that's extremely musical, far more so
than most experimentalists...If Thousands is an otherworldly band,
to be sure." - City Pages
"To paraphrase Walt Whitman: If Thousands is vast, they contain
multitudes. That's a lot to be said for two guys, let alone the
two guys who compose If Thousands." - mnartists.org/Walker Art
Center/Ripsaw News
AWARDS/MISC
Best Album of 2003 (personal top 10), City Pages (2004)
(yellowstone)
Best Album of 2003 (top 10), Pop Matters Music (2004)
(yellowstone)
2003 & 2005 Sundance Film Festival
2002 Best New Electronic Album, Minnesota Music Academy
(nomination, candice recorder)
2001 & 2003 Picked to Click, City Pages
2001 candice recorder, top 20 for 13 consecutive weeks (CJSF,
Vancouver)