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████ LABEL...[ City Slang ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 160kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 35:01 REL.DATE[ 05.20.2021 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 08 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 71,72 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 A Chef's Kiss 07:34 ████
████ 02 Drop C 03:25 ████
████ 03 Papa Was a Rolling Stone Journalist 02:02 ████
████ 04 Fuku 07:08 ████
████ 05 Unknown Man 04:26 ████
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████ 07 Impossible Meatballs 03:12 ████
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████ https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B08XMKSZVP ████
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████ ████
████ In late 2019, as he has done so many times ████
████ throughout his varied and fascinating career, ████
████ Kurt Wagner was experimenting with something ████
████ new, something that would eventually reveal ████
████ itself as LambchopÆs Showtunes. By taking ████
████ simple guitar tracks and converting them into ████
████ MIDI piano tracks, ôSuddenly I discovered I ████
████ could æplayÆ the pianoö he says. ôIt was a ████
████ revelation that from those conversions, I was ████
████ able to manipulate each note and add, subtract, ████
████ arrange the chords and melody into a form that ████
████ didnÆt have any of the limitations I had with ████
████ my previous methods of writing with a guitar.ö ████
████ ████
████ Pre-order Showtunes here! ████
████ ████
████ Removing these limitations led to a surprising ████
████ new sound, something akin to show tunes but ████
████ with edges sanded down and viewed through ████
████ KurtÆs own specific lens. ôIn general, itÆs a ████
████ genre I was none too fond of,ö he admits, ôwith ████
████ the exceptions of a few Great American ████
████ Songbookûtype of stuff or some of the works of ████
████ artists like Tom Waits or early Randy Newman or ████
████ even Gershwin or Carmichael. IÆd always wanted ████
████ to make songs with a similar feel, but my ████
████ skills were limited until now.ö ████
████ ████
████ Around the same time, Kurt was preparing for a ████
████ live show. HeÆd been asked to participate in ████
████ the Wisconsin-based Eaux Claires summer ████
████ festival, originally founded by Bon IverÆs ████
████ Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner of The ████
████ National. Inspired by the originality of the ████
████ performances heÆd seen during the 2018 PEOPLE ████
████ Festival in Berlin and some of the folks heÆd ████
████ met there, he once again set off in pursuit of ████
████ something new. With rough ideas already fleshed ████
████ out alone, along with some input from previous ████
████ collaborator Twit One, Kurt reached out to Ryan ████
████ Olsonùbest known for his work with Gayngs and ████
████ Policaùand Andrew Broder. ôThe idea I had was, ████
████ by using the show tunes as a starting point, to ████
████ work with them and others over the next few ████
████ months and come up with a way to present these ████
████ songs live at the Eaux Claires Festival in July ████
████ 2020.ö ████
████ ████
████ Needless to say, this show never happened. What ████
████ it did lead to, though, was something bigger ████
████ than any single performance: a whole new era ████
████ for Lambchop. Having initially met in early ████
████ 2020 and then working remotely from there, ████
████ Kurt, Olson, and Broder continued to experiment ████
████ with these ideas, eventually leading to ████
████ Showtunes. Though the line-up is less familiar ████
████ than it has been for some time, ôIn hindsight, ████
████ it made perfect sense,ö Kurt says. ôThe ████
████ original idea behind Lambchop was: anyone could ████
████ be part of Lambchop (so long as they behaved ████
████ themselves). This revolving-door policy is how ████
████ the band has grown and contracted through our ████
████ many years.ö This idea is not a surprise to ████
████ anyone who has followed the band over the ████
████ years. In fact, itÆs what has always made ████
████ Lambchop specialùa sense of family and ████
████ connection that extends beyond any one member ████
████ at any one time and allows for free expression ████
████ and experimentation that keeps things as fresh ████
████ as they have ever been. ████
████ ████
████ ôWorking with Ryan and Andrew felt natural. ████
████ They were able to get what I was doing almost ████
████ immediately,ö Kurt continues. With Olson ████
████ enlisting C.J. Camerieri at KurtÆs request, his ████
████ role largely involved arranging CamerieriÆs ████
████ horn parts and manipulating them in his own ████
████ way. Broder meanwhile added a group of three ████
████ solo piano performances that Kurt edited to ████
████ blend with his digital MIDI creations, adding ████
████ the naturalistic sound that gracefully ████
████ underpins tracks such as ôFukuö that swell ████
████ confidently skyward. He also added touches here ████
████ and there, such as the opera singing that ████
████ floats spectrally in and out of album closer ████
████ ôThe Last Benedict.ö Kurt also notes that, as ████
████ is always the case with Lambchop, nothing was ████
████ fixed. Alongside GRAMMY Awardûwinning co- ████
████ producer and engineer Jeremy Ferguson, ôBoth ████
████ Ryan and Andrew have a producerÆs perspective ████
████ which makes their contribution all the more ████
████ compatible beyond simple accompaniment.ö ████
████ ████
████ ôNow that the door reopened up, I realized that ████
████ anything is possible given time and space to do ████
████ it,ö Kurt says. This led to the addition of one ████
████ more key player, an effortlessly natural fit ████
████ and one that for many will feel overdue. For ████
████ the first time, longtime friend and ████
████ collaborator James McNew of Yo La Tengo joins ████
████ on upright bass. ôFor as long as IÆve known ████
████ him, James McNew has been a like-minded artist ████
████ and one who IÆve dreamed of working with,ö Kurt ████
████ says. ôThis seemed like the right fit for what ████
████ he does, and he graciously agreed to be part of ████
████ this creation. For many years, IÆve longed for ████
████ what an upright bass could add to our sound. ████
████ Now with that, this work was complete.ö ████
████ ████
████ Lyrics were addedùor indeed omittedùin the ████
████ songsÆ early initial stages, drawing from the ████
████ mood of each piece. ôIn some cases, I felt that ████
████ words werenÆt always necessary,ö Kurt says. ôI ████
████ was free to let the songs arrangement and title ████
████ do all the talking.ö KurtÆs voice itself ████
████ continues its evolution hereùclearer than it ████
████ was on FLOTUS but still imbued with the lessons ████
████ learned from that particular era and continuing ████
████ to grow in its rich, comforting beauty. ████
████ ████
████ As for the content of the songs, itÆs tempting ████
████ to look at everything through the lens of the ████
████ world we now live in. However, Kurt is quick to ████
████ point out that these songs were conceived pre- ████
████ COVID. ôThe words have no connection to the ████
████ experience we now all share,ö he says. ôI find ████
████ that to be a strong element in their favor. ████
████ IÆve yet to reconcile the time I live in ████
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