Artist.......: Tarwater
Album........: Spider Smile
Label........: Morr
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-14-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. shirley temple 04:18
02. world of things to touch 03:22
03. witch park 03:32
04. a marriage in belmont 04:24
05. lower manhatten pantoum 06:32
06. roderick usher 03:08
07. arkestra 02:17
08. when love was the law in los Angeles 04:16
09. easy sermon 03:49
10. sweet home under white clouds 05:44
11. when tomorrow comes 04:22
Runtime 45:44 min
Size 56,0 MB
Release Notes:
ItÆs the sound, not the song. At least in the
beginning. Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok sit in
their recording studio located in the heart of
their city and turn the knobs, press the buttons,
shift the regulators. Until they find a sound,
until a sound finds its way to them. A rhythm, a
melody, a noise. ôThen, we slowly write the song
backwards.ö
For ôSpider Smileö Tarwater have found astonishing
decided pop songs û as indicated already by their
debut on Morr ôThe Needle Is Travellingö, released
in 2005. They, the electro duo, each of them with
his roots in East-BerlinÆs sub culture and
avant-garde. Their songs being full of allusions
and references shall encourage the listener to link
his/her own stories with the ones by Tarwater. For
instance, the sun that rises and sets again and
again in ôarkestraö shines for everyone at another
place. The song ôarkestraö, by the way, originates
from a joint bus trip with members of ôSun Ra
Arkestraö through the hilly landscape of Scotland.
Another one of these stories that one doesnÆt have
to know. But that still reveals much of the record
telling a lot of places and spaces. America û or
rather a lot of different ideas of what America is
like û is its essential motif. It is the song
ôshirley templeö that marks the beginning, a
clouded electro-overture.
The recording studio still is Bernd JestramÆs and
Ronald LippokÆs favourite instrument. Nonetheless,
for ôSpider Smileö a number of analogue instruments
landed up in front of the microphones. A harmonica,
for example. And with it the blues. It changes in
TarwaterÆs ôwitchparkö into a dark dub-landscape.
Marchy woods, alligators. Guitars send several
songs on their way û like the all pushing ôworld of
things to touchö. Violines are plucked distinctly
in other songs and moods, an oboe spreads
melancholy patina (ôroderick usherö). Later, there
is the playing with repetition and modification,
song- and soundwriting from the spirit of
modulation û a central motif within the music of
Tarwater (ôwhen love was the law in los angelesö).
Or, the albumÆs only cover version: ôsweethome
under white cloudsö of Virgin Prunesö that took its
way through an echo-chamber. ôHome is where the
heart isö, a line like an incantation. At the same
time this resume sums up the entire album very
well.