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RF - Views Of Distant Towns
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▄▀ ■▄ █ RELEASE DATE.....................: 03-13-2006 █ ▄■ ▀▄
▄ ▀ ▄▀ ▀ STORE DATE.......................: 03-00-2006 ▀ ▀▄ ▀ ▄
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▓███ GENRE............................: Electronic ███▓
▓███ QUALiTY..........................: VBRkbps Joint-44,1 ███▓
▓███ SIZE.............................: 78,6 MB ███▓
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▓███ 01. Ladder In Place 05:28 ███▓
▓███ 02. Offering 05:52 ███▓
▓███ 03. Despite The Time 04:20 ███▓
▓███ 04. Messenger With Keepsakes 05:48 ███▓
▓███ 05. The Well And Stars 04:39 ███▓
▓███ 06. A Very Lucky Year 05:55 ███▓
▓███ 07. The Flow Of This Place 04:55 ███▓
▓███ 08. Of Detachment 03:26 ███▓
▓███ 09. Views Of Distant Towns 06:27 ███▓
▓███ 10. On The Bus That I Had Chosen 04:05 ███▓
▓███ 11. A Vacant House Is Born 06:33 ███▓
▓███ 12. End Of The Line 06:51 ███▓
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▓███ RF - Views Of Distant Towns ███▓
▓███ Label: Plop ███▓
▓███ Catalog#: PLIP-3016 ███▓
▓███ URL: http://www.discogs.com/release/637263 ███▓
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▓███ The third CD release by RF and the first release for ███▓
▓███ the Tokyo based Plop label, Views of Distant Towns ███▓
▓███ interprets the literature of Haruki Murakami through a ███▓
▓███ bed of lush vocals, textural electronics, subtle field ███▓
▓███ recordings, and composed acoustic arrangements. ███▓
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▓███ There comes a time when every label wants to expand ███▓
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▓███ Tokyo's Plop imprint has been releasing wonderful ███▓
▓███ Electronica for the past few years to critical acclaim ███▓
▓███ and they've released everything from minimalistic, ███▓
▓███ dubbed-out sounds to a much more organic, guitar based ███▓
▓███ style via sweet toybox music. Now, it's time for a new ███▓
▓███ sound and something of a departure as Plop unveil their ███▓
▓███ latest release... RF's 'Views Of Distant Towns'. ███▓
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▓███ RF is San Francisco's Ryan Francesconi, a ███▓
▓███ multi-instrumentalist and media artist and with this ███▓
▓███ album he's constructed one of the warmest and most ███▓
▓███ likeable albums you're likely to hear this year. Using ███▓
▓███ guitars, horns, strings, live drums and a subtle ███▓
▓███ palette of electronics he delivers an intricate and ███▓
▓███ beautifully arranged series of songs from the heart. ███▓
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▓███ Melancholy seems to be the overriding influence - ███▓
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▓███ Murakami's wonderful 'Wind-up Bird Chronicle' as a ███▓
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▓███ The feeling of watching the world passing by is ███▓
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▓███ electronic sounds embedded in the songs really ███▓
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