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████ GENRE...[ Alternative CAT#....[ IL2078 ████
████ LABEL...[ Innovative Leisure ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 36:14 REL.DATE[ 04.10.2021 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 11 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 83,09 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Place Names 04:03 ████
████ 02 The Spanish Look 03:06 ████
████ 03 Vincentine 03:10 ████
████ 04 Medicine 03:28 ████
████ 05 Very Blue 03:47 ████
████ 06 Silver Bracelet 03:01 ████
████ 07 Promene Bleu 03:16 ████
████ 08 Fugitive Lover 03:28 ████
████ 09 Minor Time 03:27 ████
████ 10 B. Santa Ana, 1986 02:44 ████
████ 11 To Tell 02:44 ████
████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████
████ TOTAL: 36:14 ████
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████ https://nickwaterhouse.bandcamp.com/album/prome ████
████ nade-blue ████
████ ████
████ F. Scott FitzgeraldÆs The Great Gatsby was a ████
████ work so filled with ambition, yearning, and ████
████ inner contradictions that it came to represent ████
████ the condition of a nation itself. Yet, at its ████
████ core, the slim novel tells a story about people ████
████ and, more often than not, their inability to ████
████ communicate and connect with one another ù ████
████ forever running on parallel tracks until ████
████ tragedy finally twines them together. The color ████
████ green (often in the form of the faded sodium ████
████ lit dock of Daisy Buchanan) comes to represent ████
████ longing and unrequited love in an era (the ████
████ Roaring Twenties) of decadence and spiritual ████
████ vacuousness. Green is GatsbyÆs North Star, ████
████ simultaneously pointing backward and forward ████
████ through time toward some unattainable, ████
████ impossibly balanced version of his own life. ████
████ ████
████ Nick Waterhouse, a century later but once again ████
████ in the Æ20s, takes the color blue as his hue of ████
████ choice on Promenade Blue. In NickÆs musical and ████
████ lyrical world, blue is a refraction of his life ████
████ and memories ù shadowing a deep, spiritual San ████
████ Francisco that fostered his musical vocabulary ████
████ but has now been stamped out irrevocably; ████
████ evoking the endless tours, marathon recording ████
████ sessions, and highs and lows of success heÆs ████
████ experienced in his decade-long career; ████
████ conjuring romances that were doomed, loves that ████
████ lingered, and hope for future days of parity ████
████ and partnership; summoning spirits of people ████
████ who have gone but permeate his mind forever. ████
████ ThatÆs the world of Promenade Blue ù one that ████
████ is vivid and magnetic, buoyed by both light and ████
████ density due to NickÆs newfound collaboration ████
████ with producer Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, ████
████ Devendra Banhart). ItÆs not GatsbyÆs New York ████
████ in the 1920s, itÆs WaterhouseÆs California in ████
████ the 2020s. Nick makes that crystal clear ████
████ throughout the record but particularly on ████
████ ôSanta Ana (1986),ö where he wryly sings, ôNot ████
████ from New York / And I never was / IÆm from ████
████ California.ö With that, he answers all ████
████ questions about place and settingàbut as anyone ████
████ whoÆs ever listened to a Waterhouse record ████
████ knows: time, though clearly pegged to the dawn ████
████ of this new decade, is a more malleable ████
████ concept. Where he is is clear. When he is ████
████ varies. ████
████ ████
████ We can try as hard as we can to make sense of ████
████ Promenade Blue, but in reality, context isnÆt ████
████ really needed because the music on the album is ████
████ so damn magnificent. In no uncertain terms, it ████
████ represents WaterhouseÆs finest hour as a writer ████
████ and bandleader ù leveraging the musical ████
████ partnerships he has built over many years to ████
████ put something forth that is so fully realized ████
████ and felt that it sparkles beatifically, ████
████ reverberating with energy, heart, creativity, ████
████ and vibe from start to finish. Nowhere is this ████
████ more evident than on the albumÆs opening track, ████
████ ôPlace Names,ö perhaps the most remarkable song ████
████ in the Waterhouse catalogue. ████
████ ████
████ The tune is a pocket symphony, a la Spector and ████
████ Wilson, with winding piano lines locking ████
████ puzzle-like into a whining, weeping string ████
████ arrangement courtesy of musical blood brother ████
████ J.B. Flatt. A small cadre of women backing ████
████ vocalists shout ôNever!ö and Nick replies ôI ████
████ never cry on cold days / I never mind a trip on ████
████ the freeway / Because itÆs what I know / Never ████
████ really set for the big change / Learn to let ████
████ things go / And say blow wind, blow.ö The ████
████ freeways between LA and San Francisco; the ████
████ memory of spending a teenaged evening in the ████
████ Vesuvio Cafe, which looms over the entrance of ████
████ City Lights Books; the wind ripping through you ████
████ on a foggy Bay Area morning, cutting into your ████
████ bones; the pride one takes in his hometown; the ████
████ distinct life that he has made (or that has ████
████ made him) ù itÆs all here in ôPlace Namesö and, ████
████ honestly, if the album were to end with this ████
████ one song, Waterhouse wouldÆve done his service ████
████ to the 2020s in terms of musical creativity and ████
████ vitality. Thankfully for listeners, itÆs just ████
████ the beginning. ████
████ ████
████ The album twists and turns from the opening to ████
████ the close ù from swinging, sashaying jazz and ████
████ blues (ôSpanish Lookö) to jittering, ████
████ crystalline doo wop (ôVery Blueö) and pure, ████
████ loose, languid mood music with just a hint of ████
████ Mulatu AstatkeÆs Ethiopian modal magic ████
████ (ôPromene Blueö). Most striking, perhaps, is ████
████ the use of menÆs voices as a backing texture, ████
████ bringing an unexpected thematic unity to many ████
████ of the songs. Lower-than-low gospel chants and ████
████ refrains lend both energy and emotional weight ████
████ to these pieces, conjuring a whole new mythic ████
████ world for NickÆs compositions. This is a ████
████ statement album, one to get lost in and ████
████ rediscover over and over again. ████
████ ████
████ In the Waterhouse catalogue, ôPromenade Blueö ████
████ represents rebirth and reinvigoration as well ████
████ as a clarity of purpose that elevates it and ████
████ may one day set it apart as something ████
████ resembling a magnum opus. ItÆs his æGatsbyÆ and ████
████ itÆs also his way of reintroducing himself to a ████
████ fanbase that has grown by leaps and bounds over ████
████ the last couple of years. On this record, he ████
████ paints a mythic picture of his own life ù lost ████
████ in confusion, grating against time, overheated ████
████ by false memories, being baptized by nostalgia ████
████ and a vision of the future that is ████
████ paradoxically both dark and apocalyptic and ████
████ sparkling with promise. Sounds a lot like ████
████ America in the 20s to me. Which 20s though? ████
████ Which color ù green or blue? Which author? Try ████
████ to figure it out for yourself: ████
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████ So, we beat on, boats against the current, ████
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