Artist : Part Timer
Title : Blue
Genre : Avantgarde
Year : 2007
Date : 05/24/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 14
Label : flau
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 48:38 min
Size : 59,4 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Theme From Part Timer 02:50
02.Unknown 03:09
03.Four Timer (mix one) 03:46
04.Hide All You Like 04:44
05.Four Timer (mix two) 04:48
06.Hens Teeth 03:34
07.Somewhere That You Feel Safe 03:02
08.Sudden Loss 02:41
09.Inside Ross' Memory 02:34
10.Not So Firm Resolve 03:46
11.Gentlemen Please 04:55
12.Click It 02:35
13.Samsa Cries In Thunder 04:17
14.Closing The Opera House 01:57
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48:38 min
From Boomkat:
Trust these immaculate Japanese imprints to bring us some of the most beautiful homespun music we've
heard this year, and even though Part Timer is the work of Moteer's John McCaffrey, everything about this
gorgeous cd evokes the spirit and wide-eyed mystery of Japan, presumably why Tokyo's Flau label has
given it a home. Treading that sublime line between lonesome acoustic composition and delicate
electronic tampering, the sound of Part Timer will be familiar to those of you enamoured with the music
made by the likes of Helios, The Remote Viewer and Tunng, covered in that misty-eyed sheen that cant
help but tug at the heartstrings without ever coming across as overly emotional. Album opener "theme
from Part Timer" is just sublime, some old recordings of a long forgotten day out at the beach shimmer
away in the background while a resonant acoustic guitar provides the emotional backbone around which
delicate strings and timeless chord progressions suck you into a world of blissful nostalgia. "Hide All You
Like" is the first of a couple of tracks featuring the instantly recognisable vocals of Nicola Hodgkinson (of
Empress fame), and with a detached melancholy her voice drags this material into another dimension,
away from the more familiar confines of instrumental music and into the same kind of musical domain
inhabited by the likes of the aforementioned Tunng. "Sudden Loss" is another standout piece, a lonely violin
and prepared acoustic guitar nervously igniting the track into a blissful musical arrangement not unlike
something out of Bruce Langhorne's gorgeous soundtrack for "The Hired Hand", with only the odd digital
Malfunction betraying the music's 21st century origins. "Blue" is just a gorgeous album, produced with a
singular musical vision that's impossible not to adore, layered with a plethora of homespun musical
signatures that transcend any kind of laptop music you could think of, and housed in the kind of typically
lavish Japanese packaging that makes it utterly irresistible. Gorgeous music - brought to you with a
massive recommendation.
http://www.flau.jp