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artist: Gnarls Barkley
album: St. Elsewhere
label: Downtown Recordings
cat: 8 7803-70003-2 0
year: 2006
genre: Hip-Hop
sub-genre: Soul, Funk, Pop, Electro
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.90 --Alt-Preset Standard
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 56,9 MB
link: http://www.downtownrecordings.com/
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
01 Go-Go Gadget Gospel
02 Crazy
03 St. Elsewhere
04 Gone Daddy Gone
05 Smiley Faces
06 GThe Boogie Monster
07 Feng Shui
08 Just A Thought
09 Transformer
10 Who Cares?
11 Online
12 Necromancer
13 Storm Coming
14 The Last Time
total time: 37:28 min
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│release notes.
So who is Gnarls Barkley? Diligent pen pal to Bangs, soul giant
Isaac Hayes, and Violent Femmes ringleader Gordon Gano? Well-kept
romantic consort to pop stars Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson?
English teacher to synth-rock legends Kraftwerk? Croupier at a
mysterious annual gathering in the Bay Area that allegedly draws
members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Britian's Stuckist art collective
It seems that, in the music world, Gnarls Barkley is always nearby
yet impossible to find. The membership rolls of both the Atlanta
hip hop collective Dungeon Family and Athens, Georgia's psychedelic
enclave Elephant Six list Barkley as an affiliate, but mention him
to either group and they'll shoot each other frightened looks and
start talking basketball. The rumors fly hard in every direction
and remain defiantly unverifiable.
Gnarls Barkley is a musical collaboration between producer Danger
Mouse and rapper/singer Cee-Lo. Their first album, St. Elsewhere,
was released by Warner Music on April 24, 2006 in the UK and on May
9 in the U.S. by Atlantic/Downtown Records. It was made available
for download one week earlier in the U.S. iTunes Music Store and
other online download stores.
"Crazy", their first single, gained some of its popularity due to
the use of it on primetime BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe's television
advert, and it was also made Record of the Week by Ken Bruce of BBC
Radio 2. It was released as a single on April 3, 2006, preceded by
its release as digital download and 12" vinyl single in March 2006.
On 2 April 2006, it became the first ever UK number one based on
download sales alone.
In an interview with Observer Music Monthly, Danger Mouse denied
that the band's name is a reference to former basketball player
Charles Barkley, saying "Nope. It's just like everything else on
this record. There was no conscious decision about stuff."
The duo made their debut performance at the Coachella Valley Music
and Arts Festival on April 30, 2006, but their first concert,
hosted by Myspace.com, part of the Secret Show series, took place
at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on April 28, 2006. They are set
to perform at Lollapalooza 2006 in Chicago.
Clinton Jacks works as a cook in a Waffle House restaurant near the
South Carolina coast. One night back in the year 2000, he
recollects, I saw Danger Mouse come in here. Cee-Lo was with him.
And they had this other dude with them, dressed up like H.R.
Pufnstuf. Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo ate big meals, but H.R. Pufnstuf
only wanted hash browns. Then they left, Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo,
but H.R. Pufnstuf stayed around for hours. He must've had twenty
cups of coffee. I went in the bathroom, and when I came out, he was
gone. But he left a $500 tip on the table. And he left a little
note that said, Compliments to the chef. Gnarls Barkley.
Danger Mouse, a.k.a. Brian Burton, produced the infamous Grey
Album, a full-length blend of the Beatles music and Jay-Z's raps
that became a cult classic after it was suppressed by EMI. He
recently garnered a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year for
his work with the virtual band Gorillaz. Having recorded with
enigmatic rapper MF DOOM, not to mention a cast of voices from
Adult Swim, Danger Mouse is no stranger to outsized characters. He
admits that he helped out with St. Elsewhere, the first album
credited to Gnarls Barkley. A lot of people ask me about him, says
Danger Mouse when the topic arises. He found one of my Pelican City
records, which was this downtempo experimental stuff I did in
college, and I started getting letters from him. He's not [Blur
frontman and Gorillaz co-creator] Damon Albarn I can blow that myth
out of the water for you. A lot of people think he lives in South
Carolina. Personally, I think you'd be more likely to find him in
Europe.
From beneath his shroud, Burton's spiritual adviser, the usually
silent Dr. President, murmurs something unintelligible and then Not
that I know where he is.
Cee-Lo Green, a.k.a. Thomas Calloway, is a Dungeon Family alumnus,
once-and-future member of Goodie Mob and a wildly eclectic solo
artist. His music is steeped in the gospel and blues traditions of
the Southeast, merging timeless soul with experimental funk and hip
hop. He confirms reports that his dramatic voice and soul-rummaging
lyrics appear on portions of St. Elsewhere. "Yes, I believe that I
sang on at least some of the Gnarls Barkley record," he says. "But
we are not the same person. I am Cee-Lo. I am a humble trumpet, and
the wind of God blows through me. You might consider Gnarls the
spit valve on the trumpet, were you inclined to consider him at
all." As he walked away, Cee-Lo could be heard to mutter, "You want
to know who he is? He's the dude who owes me thirty-five dollars,
that's who he is."
Does St. Elsewhere shed light on this mysterious personage, or does
it further obscure him? It's a complex record, to be sure. It
employs the full spectra of pop music and human emotion. The warm,
breezy single "Crazy" and the spry finger-snapper "Smiley Faces"
recall "Songs In The Key Of Life" and "Good Vibrations" in equal
measure. "On Line," a lament for the lonely and ambitious, could be
a tricked-out G-funk holdover. Often dark and unpredictable, St.
Elsewhere nevertheless retains its sense of joy throughout. Even
Cee-Lo's darker moments, his introspection on "Necromancer", and
the chilling "Just A Thought," on which our hero fights off
suicidal ideation, flourish in their lush, funky surroundings. It
constantly shifts its shape and never sacrifices momentum. And it
contains a mess of contradictory clues about just who Gnarls
Barkley actually is.
"I've made him my life's work," says Milton Pawley, a Los Angeles
music writer widely considered the world's leading Barkley scholar.
"And even with all the evidence I've gathered, I'm still not sure
he really exists. Maybe Gnarls Barkley isn't a person. Maybe he's
out there in the wind. Maybe he's inside of all of us. Like "Bob"
from Twin Peaks, only more funky and less evil."
Perhaps Gnarls Barkley will never fully reveal himself. But if St.
Elsewhere is any indication, his music bears Marvin Gaye's depth of
feeling, Jeff Buckley's emotive theatrics, and wild courage not
seen since Prince's prime. Behold the most exciting debut of 2006.
A psychedelic soul masterpiece. Gnarls Barkley may not be easily
located, but he won't be a stranger.
http://www.gnarlsbarkley.com
http://www.myspace.com/gnarlsbarkley
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