a r t i s t : Library Tapes
t i t l e : Feelings for Something Lost
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Resonant (RESCD020)
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Oct/2006
t r a c k s : 12
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 38,3 MB
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The first resonant release in what seems like years, is
released on Monday 16th October. It's the second album from
Swedes LIBRARY TAPES and its another stunning selection of
hauntingly beautiful piano based composititions. If you loved
'Alone In The Bright Lights Of A Shattered Life', you're going
to find this one equally loveable
SOME NICE WORDS FROM TWO OF THE UK'S MORE CLUED UP RETAILERS:
"Last year's gorgeous 'Alone In The Bright Lights Of A
Shattered Life' album from Swedish duo Library Tapes landed
here amongst a deluge of piano flecked gems. 2005 proved to be
the year when the piano became trendy once more and artists
flocked around the delicate ivories of their grandmother's old
upright. The two Scandinavians avoided comparison to the
glitchy homespun loveliness of the Boats, to Goldmund's stark
and simple minimalism or to Max Richter's Nyman-esque epics
thanks to their very personal take on the genre. Using 78rpm
vinyl crackle and distorted shortwave radio static as primary
instruments, the record took the process and the medium with
as much importance as the compositions themselves creating an
unmatched murky atmosphere reminiscent of your favourite
flickering black-and-white films.
'Feelings for Something Lost' is the next logical step from
this, playing like a lost soundtrack, only barely recoverable
from its decomposing master tapes. The tracks are for the most
part as short as film cues (the album actually only weighs in
at a scant 28 minutes!) but for some reason it feels like this
is the only way it could have been. If you remember the
utterly magnificent 'Memories of Green' track from Vangelis's
seminal Blade Runner soundtrack then you'll have a good idea
of what David Wenngren and Per Jardsall are shooting at here.
Faded photographs, distant memories, foggy northern European
landscapes, rain on mud-caked windows. you know what I'm
talking about.
Interestingly the duo have roped in some rather important
collaborators to help them conjure up an even more focused
image - on 'Leaves Abstract in a Village Plunged into
Mourning.' they take Colleen's delicate fingerpicking and
manage to make it sound like an old Gramophone record and on
'Departures' they look to neighbouring Norway and use Deaf
Center's Erik Skodvin's ample talents to help them piece
together the album's darkest and most dread-filled vignette. I
must say that since hearing Akira Rabelais' stunning
'Eisoptrophobia' I have been digging around for something
which treats the humble piano in the same crumbling manner -
finally I've found it. Wenngren and Jardsell have created a
faded postcard from the monochrome landscapes of Sweden, left
it in a dusty junk shop and then offered it to us with love.
Highly recommended." www.boomkat.com
"Library Tapes' second album for the excellent Resonant label
is charming, haunting and melancholy in the extreme. The two
Andy(i)'s have a knack of signing up interesting artists and
with this act I think they've found one of their best. 'Alone
In The Bright Lights Of A Shattered Life' was brilliant, but
this work actually outstrips it, which really is saying
something! The combination of hypnotic piano pieces, textural
found-sounds and other instrumentation gels so well that you
get caught up in the sound for the duration of the CD. You can
hear an almost Budd-esque feel to the melodies - i.e. they're
simple, but they flow. Coupled with eerie background sounds
and gentle processing, you get a work that's experimental
without ever losing its way and that's as evocative as it is
beautiful. A seriously fine album that warrants your attention
immediately. Highly recommended." www.smallfish.co.uk
http://www.resonantlabel.com/news.htm
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01-but now things were different, with birds unable to [03:05]
speak
02-feelings for something lost in two parts (pt.1) [01:46]
03-leaves abstract in a village plunged into mourning [03:34]
04-abandoned houses hiding in flickering shadows [03:05]
05-lines running low through 7th (the shame of it all) [01:27]
06-it was a cold day in february and we walked across [01:34]
the lake
07-departures (burning saints for your own sins) [04:12]
08-shut your eyes and you'll find the trees turning into [02:52]
flames
09-when we no longer are around to write our love on [01:08]
each other's eyelids
10-fading lights and distant memories [02:01]
11-feelings for something lost in two parts (pt.2) [01:46]
12-it ends with a version of keeping, reminding about [02:23]
what once were
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28:53 min