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Artist.....: Handful Of Snowdrops
Album......: Dans L'Oeil de la Tempête
Type.......: Album
Genre......: Synthpop
Style......: New Wave
Label......: C'est La Mort
CatalogNr..: CLM 034-2
Url........: http://www.angryrobot.net/cestlamort.html
Rel.date...: 31.07.2007
Str.date...: 00.00.1991
Source.....: CDDA
Grabber....: EAC 0.95 beta 3
Encoder....: Lame 3.97 -V 2 --vbr-new
Quality....: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks.....: 9
Size.......: 71.54 MB
Length.....: 52:37
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Tracklist
01. Hush 07:18
02. Voices in the Night 06:50
03. Trust (Confiance Aveugle) 04:35
04. From One Place to Another 05:17
05. The Ghost of a Song 03:56
06. Shadows on the Heart 05:42
07. What You Want 05:41
08. Sometimes I 05:50
09. In the Eye of the Storm 07:28
Total Time: 52:37
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Release Notes
Handful of Snowdrops was a synthpop band from Quebec. They started out in the
early 80's, released an album in 1990 (Land of the Damned), released a second
album in 1991 (Dans L'Oeil De La Tempete), and called it quits in 1993,
releasing a final collection of live songs (Mort en Direct). They were
published by the now-defunct C'est La Mort records, about which more can be
read here. They're best known for Area and Controlled Bleeding, and some C'est
La Mort releases were much later reissued on Projekt. Many C'est La Mort
albums remain out of print, though, including Handful of Snowdrops.
Handful of Snowdrops wasn't a great studio band. Land of the Damned suffers
from very raw production-- lots of big dry synths, fakey choir samples (not
that I don't love fakey choir samples...) and very mechanical drums and
sequences. Dans L'Oeil De La Tempete was almost overproduced and sounds way
too clean and deliberate, and the drum programming is still very mechanical.
Drum machines aren't necessarily bad, but the rest of the instrumentation
seems to be striving for lushness and expression and the drums just don't
support that well. (www.solipsism.net)
(Ripper's note: Well, I liked it. This sort of early-90s synthpop is rarely
done well, and these guys do it well, even if it's not as well-produced as it
could have been)
(Ripper's other note: All my CDs are packed in ProSleeves to save space, so
that's why the photos are a little unusual.)
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