Artist.......: Patrick Watson
Album........: Just Another Ordinary Day
Label........: Mintaka Conspiracy
Genre........: Alternative
Catnr........: TMC019
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-18-2005
str.date.....: Nov-11-2003
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.patrickwatson.net
track title time
01. Just Another Ordinary Day 02:48
02. Woods 05:16
03. Mary 03:59
04. Silent City 06:56
05. Shame 07:28
06. Brigittes Theme 04:41
07. Gealman 05:36
08. Fall 05:15
09. Sunday 03:29
Runtime 45:28 min
Size 60,1 MB
Release Notes:
Patrick Watson vit d'amour, de reves et d'ambiances
cinematographiques. L'ex-membre de Gangsters
Politics (aucune trace de ska sur Just Another
Ordinary Day) etoffe sur ce deuxieme album un grand
talent de compositeur intimiste eclectique. Par la
profondeur et la voix du Montrealais, Mary et la
superbe Shame voyagent dans les regions plus douces
du pays de Jeff Buckley. Pianiste, Patrick y colle
une sensibilite evocatrice qui se transforme au fil
des titres pour s'introduire encore plus
profondement dans le reve, jusqu'a la frontiere
Mercury Rev. Avec sa pop orchestrale debridee aux
accents parfois plus modernes, Gealman vous convie
sans filet vers les hauteurs magistrales atteintes
par le All Is Dream des Rev. Somptueux
Olivier Robillard Laveaux
Montreal artist Patrick Watson solves the mystery
of great songwriting
Patrick Watson's 2003 debut, Just Another Ordinary
Day, was a watershed release for Montreal, setting
the standard by which other musicians should have,
and will have, to measure themselves musically,
visually, lyrically and sonically. A thematic ode
to everyday life, the music jumped between chamber
pop, jazz passages and experimental sound
constructs.
This genre hopping has allowed Watson and his band
to play with an array of international talent. "I
guess it's hard to put us somewhere, so we kind of
end up everywhere. I mean, in the last year we
opened up for Feist, The Stills, Lhasa, The Dears,
James Brown [?!], and this week we're off to play
on a bill with Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Lee
Ranaldo, so I'm not complaining."
His beginnings, however, could not have been more
different: the city's third wave ska scene.
"Gangster Politics was to me what the '80s were for
a lot of people. Had a great time, partied a lot,
played with some great people, but never again will
I do a 360 and knock over my keyboard."
He is blessed with an angelic voice while his chops
and soul are more suited to a man three times his
age. At 25, the world lies at his feet, and being
surrounded by talented musicians has made his job
that much easier. "For the last two years this
project has really evolved into a group where each
member is crucial to the sound, the core members
being Simon Angell [guitar], Robbie Kuster [drums]
and Mishka Stein [bass]. We're a family, we make
music together and throw
things at each other, mainly pointy objects, but we
have been writing as a band and play live as a
band."
And the new material on the sophomore Close to
Paradise? "It's not as ambient as the last record,
more up-tempo and lyrical, but still keeping its
cinematic thread. We threw in a little country
twang, with a twist of some Danny Elfman cinnamon
flavour served on a dish made of shimmering Mr.
Sandman decorations, with a sweet-and-sour sauce
mix of song and instrumental collaboration, and the
meat and potatoes, well, stories and sounds of the
most amazing people that we have met, and who
influenced our lives over the last two years,
served in a little restaurant called Close to
Paradise."