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██▓▀ Album......[ Trading Twilight For Daylight ▀▓██
▄ █▓█ █ Label......[ Eenie Meenie Records █ █▓█ ▄
█▒█▓█▄▀ Catalog #..[ EM026 ▀▄█▓█▒█
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▓▓█▓▀ ██ Language...[ English ██ ▀▓█▓▓
▀ ▄████ Rip Date...[ 2007-05-10 ████▄ ▀
▄ ▀ ▓█▓ Store Date.[ 2007-05-15 ▓█▓ ▀ ▄
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▀█▓▀ Quality....[ 210 kbps AVG VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo ▀▓█▀
▄ █▓█▄▓█▓ Url........[ http://www.greatnorthernmusic.com ▓█▓▄█▓█ ▄
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█▓ 01 Our Bleeding Hearts 3:46 ▓█
█▓ 02 Just A Dream 5:44 ▓█
█▓ 03 Home 3:49 ▓█
█▓ 04 Telling Lies 3:37 ▓█
█▓ 05 Low Is A Height 5:15 ▓█
█▓ 06 City Of Sleep 4:40 ▓█
█▓ 07 A Sun A Sound 3:59 ▓█
█▓ 08 Into The Sun 4:23 ▓█
█▓ 09 The Middle 3:09 ▓█
█▓ 10 Babies 5:02 ▓█
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█░█ http://www.greatnorthernmusic.com █░█
█░█ http://www.eeniemeenie.com █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Great Northern: The name evokes a feeling of a █░█
█░█ place and time in which . . . to dream, perhaps, █░█
█░█ to get away from it all, or away from oneself. █░█
█░█ It's late afternoon, strolling into night. █░█
█░█ There's a slight breeze but you're warm in your █░█
█░█ coat, or bundled in cotton as you gaze out the █░█
█░█ window... █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ An appropriately evocative soundtrack for all █░█
█░█ this - widescreen grand nudging fuzzy intimate - █░█
█░█ is something akin to what Solon Bixler and Rachel █░█
█░█ Stolte sought when they formed Great Northern. █░█
█░█ The two longtime friends had often talked about █░█
█░█ making music together and Bixler eventually █░█
█░█ approached Stolte with material he'd been █░█
█░█ developing quietly. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ "Rachel and I had known each other for about █░█
█░█ seven years," says Bixler, "and I was touring and █░█
█░█ playing a lot with this four-track on the road █░█
█░█ with me, just writing songs." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ "We had similar tastes in music," says Stolte. "I █░█
█░█ was taking a break from being in a band, and one █░█
█░█ night he gave me all these tapes he'd been █░█
█░█ working on and said, `Do you want to play piano █░█
█░█ and sing on these?' And I was like,`Yeah!' We █░█
█░█ went back and forth from my four-track to his for █░█
█░█ six/seven months and then finally got in the █░█
█░█ studio together and started recording." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ After juggling various lineups, Bixler and Stolte █░█
█░█ settled on a satisfying equation when they nabbed █░█
█░█ drummer Davey Latter and bassist Ashley █░█
█░█ Dzerigian. "We all traveled in the same circle of █░█
█░█ friends so we've known Davey for a long time," █░█
█░█ explains Bixler. "It's like having a member of █░█
█░█ your family join your band." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Stolte recalls, "It was fate that brought Ashley █░█
█░█ to us. We met her at a party we didn't even want █░█
█░█ to go to, and found out she played bass. When we █░█
█░█ woke the next day, we thought, "Hey, what about █░█
█░█ Ashley? By then, she'd already learned all our █░█
█░█ songs." █░█
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█░█ The thriving L.A music scene proved an invaluable █░█
█░█ experience in developing Bixler's expertise as a █░█
█░█ guitarist, composer and arranger, skills that had █░█
█░█ been nurtured by the influence of his father, a █░█
█░█ composer and conductor. When it came time to do █░█
█░█ his own music, he was ready to present a fresh █░█
█░█ point of view. But he was also prepared to █░█
█░█ venture beyond the familiar comfort zone and █░█
█░█ allow for an outsider's perspective. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Great Northern found fertile creative ground when █░█
█░█ they met engineer/producer Mathias Schneeberger █░█
█░█ through a mutual friend and recorded Trading █░█
█░█ Twilight for Daylight at Schneeberger's Donner & █░█
█░█ Blitzen studio in Arcadia, CA. Schneeberger (Greg █░█
█░█ Dulli, Joseph Arthur, Queens of the Stone Age, █░█
█░█ Earthlings) "just gets it," says Bixler, "he just █░█
█░█ understands. He wants to make music beautiful, █░█
█░█ make it important and stand out." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ "Mathias has an amazing ear for getting really █░█
█░█ great sounds," he continues, "and he's a good █░█
█░█ orchestrator as well; he plays keyboards and █░█
█░█ guitar on the record. He was living at his studio █░█
█░█ working until four in the morning so when we █░█
█░█ showed up the next day, he'd already created this █░█
█░█ whole crazy thing. He'd then say, `It's cool if █░█
█░█ you don't like it, we can just trash it,' but █░█
█░█ nine times out of ten it was really great." █░█
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█░█ Trading Twilight for Daylight is a collection of █░█
█░█ shimmeringly lovely yet wildly contrasting shades █░█
█░█ of the pop song experience. Densely layered █░█
█░█ melodies are draped with Stolte and Bixler's █░█
█░█ signature velvety chimes, stately piano, █░█
█░█ luxuriant keyboard string flourishes and smartly █░█
█░█ counterpointed electric and acoustic guitars. The █░█
█░█ songs very point often seem to suggest the rich █░█
█░█ emotional textures of a daydream afternoon, as █░█
█░█ sunshine gently dims into the dark. The sensual █░█
█░█ fullness of the sound is like soaking in a bath █░█
█░█ of warm frequencies. "Doesn't it make you feel █░█
█░█ good?" sings Stolte. And later, "Was I dreaming? █░█
█░█ Was I awake?" █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Great Northern songs are genuinely, memorably █░█
█░█ melodic, and it's the several coatings of so many █░█
█░█ melodies within each track that makes them █░█
█░█ something to return to again and again. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ "It's important to Solon and me that the songs █░█
█░█ have a lot to offer," says Stolte. "The songs on █░█
█░█ my mind are the ones that you hear over and over █░█
█░█ and you hear something new every time." █░█
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█░█ The very moody "lOw IS a hEIghT" is inarguably a █░█
█░█ gorgeous song, but what's it about? A crucial █░█
█░█ ambiguity raises its pointy head when the band █░█
█░█ embarks on an extended instrumental coda that █░█
█░█ brings variation to the main theme, as if █░█
█░█ crystalizing the essence of the mood the song █░█
█░█ seeks to convey. █░█
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█░█ Building to a caterwauling intensity, "Telling █░█
█░█ Lies" flirts with the epic (in short form, of █░█
█░█ course) by fusing tremeloed multiple guitars and █░█
█░█ voices as drummer Davey thrashes artfully. █░█
█░█ Exhilarating dervishes of high whining keyboard █░█
█░█ strings and guitars lure you to the bridge, where █░█
█░█ you might find yourself utterly addicted when █░█
█░█ they snow this glorious mountain of sound with █░█
█░█ spine-tingling counterpoint backing "aaah's". █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ "There isn't any specific formula for crafting a █░█
█░█ song - the song will just tell you what it has to █░█
█░█ be. It can stem from an emotion, which then █░█
█░█ evolves lyrically or otherwise. Ultimately, when █░█
█░█ you listen to a song in your bedroom with █░█
█░█ headphones, it should be able to take you away, █░█
█░█ maybe on a little journey." And for Great █░█
█░█ Northern, that journey has just begun - and the █░█
█░█ horizon has never looked so magnificent. █░█
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