a r t i s t : Nobody And Mystic Chords Of Memory
t i t l e : Tree Colored See
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Rough Trade
c a t : RTRADCD262
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Indie
r l s. d a t e : May/2006
t r a c k s : 11
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 55,2 MB
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Elvin Estella (aka Nobody) is something of a musical
chameleon; one minute he's effortlessly blending into the
sun-bleached/baggy-jeans+bong backdrop of psych-dipped hip-hop
on 'And Everything Else' - the next he's plundering Axelrod's
vaults for inspiration with free wheeling odyssey 'Pacific
Drift'. The one thing that remains starkly clear however, is
that Nobody is certainly somebody. Following on from the
sneak-preview afforded by Earsugar's superlative 7", Nobody
and Mystic Chords of Memory (Estella, Chris Gunst and Jen
Cohe) are back for a full-length following a period of fertile
collaboration on each other's respective releases. Bursting
with a rainbow of pop-speckled melodies, each of the
eleven-tracks borne by the 'Tree Colored See' has the
protagonists each contributing their own special ingredient to
the aural gumbo - with former Beachwood Sparks
singer/guitarist Gunst allowing just the right level of
folksiness to pervade the Bryds-esque primary colour chords of
Nobody's Stereolab-indebted Gaelic-hop beats. Opening with
'The Seed', Nobody and Mystic Chords of Memory ferment a sense
of spiralling abandon that sees cosmic effects tricking down
the thrumming bank of beats and 45-vocals - with the resultant
composition both thrillingly new whilst deeply rooted within
the broader palate of Americana. Next up 'Decisions,
Decisions' burns its fingers on some James Brown-stabs whilst
the trio of composers styles are left to clash joyously,
'Broaden A New Sound' is a wonderfully skew-whiffed platter of
shuffling vitamin-C pop, whilst 'Floating' (and it's James
Bond strings) sees you out on a beatific cloud of jelly-pink
loveliness.
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01-The Seed [03:52]
02-Decisions, Decisions [03:05]
03-Broader A New Sound [04:09]
04-Coyote's Song [When You Hear it Too] [02:55]
05-Memory [05:20]
06-Klaw Prints [00:45]
07-Walk in the After Light [03:09]
08-When the End Meets the Beginning [02:36]
09-Feet Upon the Sand [04:44]
10-Softer Sail [03:38]
11-Floating [05:09]
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39:22 min