Artist.......: scarnella
Album........: self titled
Label........: smells like records
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: slr 027
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-25-2006
str.date.....: 1998
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.smellslikerecords.com/scarnella/
track title time
01. underdog 08:30
02. release the spring 04:23
03. improvisation #4 02:31
04. the most useless thing 05:44
05. dandelions 02:40
06. improvisation #3 03:40
07. snowy (about a cat) 12:26
08. death by northwest 05:59
09. improvisation #1 15:34
10. a millennium fever ballad 04:52
Runtime 66:19 min
Size 97,1 MB
Release Notes:
Sometimes a trip can produce more than a few
photos, a good story, and a souvenir t-shirt.
Songwriter/vocalist Carla Bozulich and guitarist
Nels Cline took a two-week trip through the Pacific
Northwest and got an album out of it. Scarnella
(1998, Smells Like Records), the name of both the
group that Bozulich and Cline formed and the album
that resulted from their partnership, was born on a
trip that contained the beginnings of their work as
a duo, four shows, six days of recording and
mixing, and a whole lot of songwriting and
improvising.
Bozulich and Cline had worked together before in
the Geraldine Fibbers and both had stretched
themselves in partnerships with other musicians:
Bozulich in another band, Ethyl Meatplow, and Cline
in the Nels Cline Trio, and in collaborations with
Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, and Charlie Haden.
However, both the unusual circumstances of the
creation of this album and extra roles that each
member had to play (Bozulich on bass and sampling
keyboard, Cline on drums) meant that this was a
project that existed on the edge of their previous
experiences. The result was a sound that alternated
between the ethereal space of the open road and the
noisy organized chaos of random improvisation.
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