a r t i s t : Color Cassette
t i t l e : Small Town Smoker
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Mobeer
c a t : mobeer004
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Electronic/Indie/Folk
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2008
t r a c k s : 08
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 44,4 MB
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boomkat:
*STRICTLY LIMITED HAND-PACKAGED DOUBLE CD FROM MOBEER - 300
COPIES ONLY FOR THE WORLD HOUSED WITH A PRINTED MOTEER
BEERMAT, EACH COPY INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED AND ASSEMBLED* Brand
new on Moteer's hugely collectable and bespoke "micro brewery"
offshoot label, this gorgeous debut album takes the form of a
double 3"CD-R, the music fitting this diminutive format down
to the ground. These eight miniature compositions draw on
clickety clack fractured folkisms, tactile field recordings
and the kind of warm, cosy synthesis you'd associate with
early M∙m and Remote Viewer themselves. Using an array of
different acoustic instruments (usually guitars, glockenspiels
and melodica rendered in hushed, intimate detail) the
Kentuckian band fashion some beautiful auditory confections,
with a particular highlight arising from 'Mosquito Winter', a
beautifully restrained exercise in micro-beat crackle and
gentle, electronic hum. The closing piece, 'Passing Time Too',
which distils raw and formative elements into a sublime and
direct 'song' format, leaves you with that typical bittersweet
melancholy so often a signature of this label's best output. A
delightful double-helping of divine miniatures from the
reliably ace Moteer stable - and as ever with these editions,
they just ain't going to last.
norman:
Color Cassette is from Kentucky and his collected works are
available over two 3" CDs on the mega collectible Mobeer
label. We've been discussing how we all admire Moteer/Mobeer &
the Emperor Remote Viewer for their unshakable commitment to
what is essentially laptop indie folk. So many practitioners
have come & gone over the years, now probably following other
routes & styles but these 8 songs are from another age, where
chiming acoustic guitars jangle over soft playful understated
beats & field recordings, the more folky tracks sparring with
drifting songs based more in the fields of drone & ambience.
It all sounds very lovely, hazy & home made and is more than
sufficient ammunition to blast the Mobeer cannon into space
again! 'Small Town Smoker' is highly limited and numbered in
the usual manner and is expected to go quick.
What the label says:
the fourth in our series of sonic tributes to the good old
pint comes from more far flung friends. american friends. they
say color. we say colour. we didn't call the whole thing off.
ladies and gentlemen time please, and on your way out pick up
a copy of the color cassette 3''cd. it's actually 2 x 3'' cds
and if you know the drill you''ll have already guessed that
they come housed on a mobeer beermat, slipped in to a hand
assembled sleeve and then popped into a little brown envelope
and stamped. don't thank me. thank craig.
based around a nucleus of jason corder and matt yarrington,
color cassette and their kentucky cohorts have assembled a
little mobeer classic for us. we think the eight tracks here
have a touch of the sufjan interludes, a touch of the straight
stories, a touch of the front porches.
so expect plucks of banjos and guitars and a little humming
and clicking. Expect a soundtrack from that film of about the
lonely cowboy, lovelorn and broke, just a casio for company
and a dream of making berlin. that would be a decent film
wouldn't it. i think dustin hoffman would be in it.
anyway you know the score with us, it aint gonna be black
metal. if you've bought the others you'll want this one. be
quick. they never last long.
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CD1
01-Acrost Ponds [04:43]
02-Tell-Tale In Two Parts [05:49]
03-Candles In Car View [03:37]
04-Cassiamonopia [04:13]
CD2
01-Mosquito Winter [04:08]
02-Salt Water Train [05:12]
03-Silencing Cities [06:17]
04-Passing Time Too [04:38]
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38:37 min