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..:: Rip nfo ::..
Artist: Mike Shannon
Album Title: Possible Conclusions To Stories That Never End
Record Label: http://www.scape-music.de/
Release Date: Feb-08-2006
Release Type: Album
Catalog Number: SCAPE36
Genre: Electronic
Year: 2006
Source: CDDA
Encoder: Lame 3.90
Quality: VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo
TRACKLIST :
01. Come To You (5:25)
02. Sudden Moves (5:11)
03. Sweet Lies (2:58)
04. Blind (5:30)
05. Miyako Train (5:11)
06. Taken Only Road (5:15)
07. I┤ll Pay My Rent ON The Daytime Nocturnal (3:38)
08. Underwater Fishmarket (1:17)
09. Bathing in Microwaves (4:28)
10. The Last One Terrified (2:22)
11. News for you (1:34)
12. Remembrance (3:17)
13. Fallen Tears Among Spirit Trees (3:37)
14. The Last Days (4:22)
_______
54:10
71,7 MB
..:: RELEASE NOTES ::..
MIKE SHANNON switches skins in "Possible Conclusions to Stories
that Never End" putting aside overt techno nuances he has been
punishing parishioners of the dance floor with for well over a
decade to explore a different region of actualization... Over the
years MIKE SHANNON has played a significant role in the expansion
of the Canadian electronic movement. A founding father of the
Cynosure and Revolver labels that have been the launch pad for
several Canadian techno luminaries like Akufen, Deadbeat, and
Pan/tone. MIKE SHANNON himself has been actively performing and
promoting a very specific genre of minimal house and techno that
today is reaching a new level of awareness in the global
electronic community. With releases on various imprints worldwide
he has consistently maintained an asethic quality to his techno
productions defining him a key player in the global circuit. MIKE
SHANNON has presently assembled a collection of works that poses a
series of of questions: What is the nature of experience? Do the
causal ripples emanating from our actions and experience fade into
the ether upon completion? Do they persist as dream or memory or
some other type of latent effect in different subtle forms? How is
there any relation to a passing moment to the breadth of what we
intuitively know to be infinite? The concision that binds
abstraction to the tangible comes from a creature of the world and
his sonic scrapbook: MIKE SHANNON collects memory and redeploys
"Possible Conclusions to Stories that Never End" as a perfect
storm of experience and inner revelation. This collection of
imprints has accrued from diverse stints over the years. Plucking
outlaw episodes in Southwestern Ontario, to regenisis in Montreal,
from wanderings in Santiago, to musings in Valencia, to field
trips in Tokyo - MIKE SHANNON has made landfall with his latest
sonic mosaic. The album commences using field-recordings of a
typhoon hitting the streets of Tokyo, the listener is shunted into
an environment where each song is chimeric conclusion bathed in a
cinematic light. An environment aquiver with situational themes
posited as individual soundtracks that are filtered from the vista
of lost and found years of various perspectives. Witness: Through
non-grasping, each Ending firmly holds the listener to the vibe in
lounge affected warmth resulting is a seamless seasonal shift
towards introspection in time to laidback pacing. On "Taken Only
Road" (featuring Anais) MIKE SHANNONÆs sparse sedate jazz
manifestations form with a subtle electronic prosthetic to make a
seamless hybrid of haunting lyrical form and near-ambient
formlessness. Anais's vocals, while entreating the listener,
caresses as she wanders from sweet supplication to a silky lament
over neon throbs of heady keys dappling over a languid bassline.
Atop the springy malleable groove of "Last One Terrified", spoken
word elemental Moral Undulations catalogues the soul-stunting
elements in North American culture with measured but casual
defiance. In an almost grainy-hitched, stilted flow he rides
SHANNONÆS incitement for an end to the Fear that wears the Crown
in the alleged democratic utopia. The lushness of the project is
due to diversity of the personnel MIKE SHANNON has collaborated
with. In addition to Anais and Moral Undulations, Toronto-based
Jazz drummer TIM-STOKES REESE'S smooth percussion ghosts and
weaves through album, soft hits serving as a beacon points to the
thick narcotic groove espoused on this fourteen track offering. In
"Tears" Montreal musician PATRICK WATSON gently flays with piano
ripple in time to ReeseÆs drum patterns to make a resoundingly
emotional result. The innocuous dread that underlies the light air
and light and water in many of the tracks are due to trace
elements of influence from cinematic composer ANGELO BADALAMENTI,
to Montreal electronic wizards MARC LECLAIR and DEADBEAT. The hues
of these influences filter into SHANNONÆS technique but the
productions in the end have a sound signature truly of itÆs own.
The message becomes clear: As individuals we are naught but
aggregates of past events, living hieroglyphs of personal history
ultimately the project is a paean to the deathless nature of all
experience inside these Stories.... Enjoy :)