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r e l e a s e . i n f o :
Artist.....: Edward Ka-Spel
Title......: Happy New Year
Rip Date...: Apr-22-2006 Cat.No.....: mt112
Style......: Ambient Label......: Beta Lactam Ring
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 37,4 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s :
HAPPY NEW YEAR The New Year... Normally it begins with kisses so
clumsily delivered that I've been known to have traces of
lipstick on my eyeballs the next day. Still New Year's Eve 2004
was a different kind of occasion. The end of a long hard year
and when I looked across the room at around 11pm I saw the dog
malevolently looking me in the eye and I knew I was going to
pass on the physical side of the celebration. Fireworks were
going off outside- it seems people never have the patience to
wait for the moment, but I had decided to mark the day in my own
way with this piece of music. A few glasses of cheap South
African wine had been imbibed (after I had recorded the piano
parts) and a microphone was set up outside the door to take in
the atmosphere, I simply kept my headphones on and occasionally
checked email messages from others who also found themselves
alone on that particular night. Nobody called, yet strangely it
seemed to be almost poetic that 2005 was ushered in so modestly.
Somehow I knew that things would be better in the year to come,
and I suppose they are. Happy New Year
-EK
Happy New Year is the new chunklet of music-scented sound art
from Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots, and its release
represents only one of a small avalanche of EKS albums to be
issued in 2005. Already this year has seen the release of O
Darkness! O Darkness! and Fragments of Illumina, and if
Beta-Lactam Ring Records sticks to their plans, there could be
as many as three more EKS albums issued this year. The reason
for this sudden spike in Ka-Spel's already absurd prolificacy
could only be speculated about, but one thing is for certain: if
anyone has earned the right to unleash a ridiculous amount of
vanity albums on the world, it's Edward Ka-Spel. An argument
could be made that I have merely fetishized Edward's recording
aesthetics and artistic obsessions, and that an objective
assessment of his work would be impossible. Well, fuck all that.
Happy New Year clocks in at about 26 minutes, making it more of
an EP than a full-length. The recording was undertaken on New
Year's Eve 2004, when the artist found himself in solitude,
alienated from the celebrations occurring outside his door.
While most of us would probably get drunk and call up an old
flame, EKS decided to record this layered mini-album. In the far
distant background of the recording, you can hear the crackling
and whistling of fireworks exploding as EKS rifles backwards
through his recent memory, producing hazy, backwards washes of
analog synthesizer that reek of nostalgia, sadness and regret.
Lovely, meandering piano melodies take the fore, picking out
deconstructed variations on "Auld Lang Syne" and other
celebratory songs. It's haunting, elegiac and tasteful, never
totally surrendering to melancholy, but gracefully skating
around its edges.
"What Goes Around" is the second track, and though it is not
part of the same New Year's Eve recording session, it is paired
with the first track because of its similar insistence on
looking backward, on the nebulous play of memory in the mind's
eye. It ends with a spooky loop from an old-time-y record,
running out numbly into oblivion. The construction of both
tracks is along the lines of EKS' more experimental, dislocated,
ambient work, as opposed to the more song-based structures of
classic albums like Khataclamici China Doll and Tanith and the
Lion Tree. This is not a bad thing by any means; just a caveat.
Though this brief memento of days gone by is barely substantial
enough to warrant repeated listens, Happy New Year is still
another terrific little entry in the EKS discography.
-www.brainwashed.com
Special tip of the hat to our friends at FWYH, Radial, i8, BCC
and BEX.
p l a y l i s t :
01 Happy New Year 13:43
02 What Goes Around 12:37
26:20 min
g r e e t i n g s :
1real - 1way - aes - amok - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms ..
def - dh - disc0 - emp - drum - ftd - fwyh - gxe - hit2k - jfk ..
jrp - just - kinky - kw - om - rac - radial - sb - sfe - soup ..
sour - tr - trt - ube - uki / respect to music lovers worldwide ..
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl ..