Paddy_McAloon-I_Trawl_The_Megahertz-2003-RNS

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2006-01-23

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  ▀   ▄▄  ▀█▄▀██▄▄████▌ARTIST: Paddy McAloon               ▐████▄███▀▄█▀  ▄▄
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   █████▄    ▐█▌▐███▄   TITLE: I Trawl the Megahertz         ▄███▌▐█▌    ▄█████
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    ▀█████▓▄▄▄█▐▓█████▌ LABEL: EMI/Liberty                 ▐█████▓▌█▄▄▄▓█████▀
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      ▄▄▀▀  ▄██████▀   RIPPER: Team RNS                       ▀██████▄
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  ▀██▄  ▀█████▌                0hr 53min total- 77.3mb             ██████▀
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█▓     ▀▀██▄  ▀██▄           RELEASE DATE: 2003-05-27            ██▀
▀▓▄      ▐██▌  ▐██▓▄           RIP DATE: 2003-06-21            ▄██▌
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         ▀▀███████▀   track list                               ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
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  ▄████▀▀▀▄    ▐██▓   01 I Trawl the Megahertz         22:06   ▓██▌ ▐▌    ▐████
 ▐████▌      ▄▄▓▓█▓▌  02 Esprit de Corps                4:51  ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
  ▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀   03 Fall from Grace                3:38   ▀█████▄  ▀▀▀
    ▀▀███▀▄█████▀     04 We Were Poor...                4:49     ▀█████▄
        ▄█████▀ ▀▄▄   05 Orchid 7                       4:20   ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  06 I'm 49                         3:48  ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ 07 Sleeping Rough                 3:35 ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓  08 Ineffable                      2:42  ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   09 ...But We Were Happy           3:48   ▀█████████
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     ▄▄▄     ▀▀██▄    release notes                             ▄██▀▀■   ▀████▄
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 ▐████▌      ▄▄▓▓█▓▌  Paddy McAloon's name is usually         ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
  ▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀   whispered in the same breath as other    ▀█████▄  ▀▀▀
    ▀▀███▀▄█████▀     practitioners of the elusive beast known   ▀█████▄
        ▄█████▀ ▀▄▄   as Perfect Pop. People such as Todd      ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  Rundgren and Brian Wilson:              ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ sophisticates who know as much about   ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓  George Gershwin's role in the evolution ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   of modern popular song as that of        ▀█████████
             ▀▀██▄    Busted. Yet aficionados know that the     ▄██▀▀███   ▀ ▄
   ▄▄▄▄▄       ▐██▓   increasingly sporadic releases by his    ▓██▌ ████▄   ▄█▌
  ▀  ▀▀███▄   ▄▓▓█▓▌  band Prefab Sprout have displayed a     ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
       ▐███▌▄█████▀   wilful eccentricity. For example, their  ▀█████▄  ▀▀▀
 ▄    ▄███▄█████▀     last songcycle the Gunman And Other        ▀█████▄
  ▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄   Stories was a western-themed             ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  extravaganza. Yet nothing will have     ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ prepared his fans for this.            ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓                                          ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   McAloon recently suffered a temporary    ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
     ▄▄▄     ▀▀██▄    blindness that left him house-bound.      ▄██▀▀■   ▀████▄
  ▄████▀▀▀▄    ▐██▓   Finding solace in short wave radio       ▓██▌ ▐▌    ▐████
 ▐████▌      ▄▄▓▓█▓▌  transmissions he began recording and    ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
  ▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀   transcribing the snippets of             ▀█████▄  ▀▀▀
    ▀▀███▀▄█████▀     conversation and ephemera. The result is I ▀█████▄
        ▄█████▀ ▀▄▄   Trawl The Megahertz: a nine track        ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  project so personal and removed from    ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ his previous work that it's been       ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓  released under his own name. Aided by   ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   arranger, David McGuinness and classical ▀█████████
             ▀▀██▄    crossover ensemble Mr McFall's Chamber,   ▄██▀▀███   ▀ ▄
   ▄▄▄▄▄       ▐██▓   Paddy has fashioned a work of troubling  ▓██▌ ████▄   ▄█▌
  ▀  ▀▀███▄   ▄▓▓█▓▌  beauty.                                 ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
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 ▄    ▄███▄█████▀     The album is dominated by its opening      ▀█████▄
  ▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄   title track: A 22-minute orchestral      ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  piece with a recurring motif, overlaid  ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ by the soft American voice of Yvonne   ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓  Connors intoning poetry formed from     ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   McAloon's random dips into the ether. If ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
     ▄▄▄     ▀▀██▄    on first listen it sounds pretentious,    ▄██▀▀■   ▀████▄
  ▄████▀▀▀▄    ▐██▓   fear not. Once contextualized this       ▓██▌ ▐▌    ▐████
 ▐████▌      ▄▄▓▓█▓▌  becomes a deeply moving                 ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
  ▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀   autobiographical ode to isolation, loss  ▀█████▄  ▀▀▀
    ▀▀███▀▄█████▀     and heartache. It's as if McAloon's        ▀█████▄
        ▄█████▀ ▀▄▄   well-proven gift for aching melody and   ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  erudite love songs has, due to his      ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ enforced immobility, been subsumed     ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓  into a purer and more abstract medium.  ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   The phrase that strikes home again and   ▀█████████
             ▀▀██▄    again is: 'I said: your Daddy loves you   ▄██▀▀███   ▀ ▄
   ▄▄▄▄▄       ▐██▓   very much, he just doesn't want to live  ▓██▌ ████▄   ▄█▌
  ▀  ▀▀███▄   ▄▓▓█▓▌  with us any more.' This is the sound of ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀███████▀
       ▐███▌▄█████▀   one man thinking about dark stuff...     ▀█████▄  ▀▀▀
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  ▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄   The rest of I Trawl consists of          ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  instrumentals that veer from lush       ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ reiterations of the main theme ("We    ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓  Were Poor" and its companion piece      ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   "...But We Were Happy"), jazzy vamps     ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
     ▄▄▄     ▀▀██▄    ("Fall From Grace") and almost Zappaesque ▄██▀▀■   ▀████▄
  ▄████▀▀▀▄    ▐██▓   technical exercises ("Esprit De Corps"). ▓██▌ ▐▌    ▐████
 ▐████▌      ▄▄▓▓█▓▌  Yet you are never far from reminders of ▐▓█▓▓▄ ▀█▄▄▄███▀
  ▀████▄▄▄▄███████▀   the sadness and regret that suffuses the ▀█████▄  ▀▀▀
    ▀▀███▀▄█████▀     mind of the composer. "I'm 49" contains    ▀█████▄
        ▄█████▀ ▀▄▄   samples from McAloon's radio             ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  explorations with the underlying theme  ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ of separation and loneliness ('What's  ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓  wrong? I'm 49 and I'm divorced') while  ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   the only vocal track, "Sleeping Rough"   ▀█████████
             ▀▀██▄    ruminates on the ageing process ("I shall ▄██▀▀███   ▀ ▄
   ▄▄▄▄▄       ▐██▓   grow a long silver beard...").           ▓██▌ ████▄   ▄█▌
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       ▐███▌▄█████▀   Such a deeply personal project will      ▀█████▄  ▀▀▀
 ▄    ▄███▄█████▀     probably never recapture those people that ▀█████▄
  ▀▀███▀██████▀ ▀▄▄   bought Steve Mcqueen the first time      ▄▄▀ ▀█████▄
       ▐█████    ▐█▓  around. But for all of us at a          ▓█▌    █████▌
       █████▌    ███▌ particular stage in life this is a     ▐███    ▐█████
       ▀█████▄  ▓██▓  poignant reminder of the healing power  ▓██▓  ▄█████▀
         ▀▀███████▀   of music. One can only hope that it      ▀███████▀▓▄▄▄
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