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Year :: 2005
Label :: Young God Records
Cat No :: YG31
Genre :: Folk
Tracks :: 14
Size :: 54,5 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 30/11/2005
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from the young god website ---
We have recently finished recording an album by Mi
and L'au here in Brooklyn. I co-produced it with
them. It turned out very lovely indeed. It was a
privilege to work with such talented, sincere, and
intensely focused individuals. They have a quite
passion that is expressed both in the way they are as
human beings and in their songs. The music is
austere, but simultaneously warm. Picture a glacier
with a red ember glowing in its center. Mi and L'au
met in Paris a few years back. Mi is Finnish and was
working as a model to make ends meet and L'au (who's
French) was working in the music industry
(soundtracks, I think). They fell deeply and
immediately in love, and after a short period of
moving from apartment to apartment in Paris, they
gave everything up and decided to move to the woods
in Finland, so they could be alone together in peace
and to spend their time discovering each other and
their music.
They live in a small cabin in complete isolation with
the barest of essentials and they spend virtually all
their time making music together in solitude. They
are pure and gentle souls (Devendra's song, from Oh
Me Oh MY... "Gentle Soul" was written for L'au ¡ the
two had met in Paris when Devendra was wandering
there, and L'au took him in, and they also made music
together). Their music is bare, delicate, and made
with simple instrumentation - voice, acoustic
guitars, and other very sparse orchestrations. I
wouldn't say it compares at all to the current crop
of neo-hippy "weird folk" etc. though. It has the
naked quality of certain early Nico recordings, or
Chet Baker (I don't mean there's a stylistic
similarity by any means - just a sense of
space)...soulful and elegant, without being
touchy-feely or confessional. Their music reminds me
of how one might imagine a winter Finnish landscape -
haunting and pure.
These recordings were made with love in Mi and L'au's
cabin in Finland and then overdubs were made in the
wilds of Brooklyn by themselves as well as the
ubiquitous Akron/Family, Julia Kent (Antony and the
Johnsons), Paul Cantelon, Jerome O'Brien and others.
Overdubs were made at Seizure's Palace (Angels of
Light. Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family) and mixed at
Trout recording by Bryce Goggin (Phish. Pavement,
Lemonheads, Angels of Light, Akron/Family etc.).
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[01] They Marry [03:43]
[02] How [03:34]
[03] Philosopher [02:53]
[04] I've Been Watching You [03:06]
[05] Bums [02:49]
[06] Older [02:48]
[07] Merry Go Round [03:05]
[08] Nude [02:22]
[09] A Word In Your Belly [03:49]
[10] Boxer [03:40]
[11] Andy [03:24]
[12] Christmas Soul [03:43]
[13] New Born Child [02:15]
[14] Study [04:09]
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