ARTIST: The Cinematic Underground
TITLE: Annasthesia
LABEL: Cut Narrative Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 191kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44m total
RELEASE DATE: 2003-00-00
RIP DATE: 2006-03-06
Track List
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1. The Evening News 3:03
2. Work (Carparks & Cubicles) 5:07
3. My Dear Self 4:54
4. Watermachines (Interlude I) 1:12
5. The Face of the Crowd (Street 4:21
Legal)
6. Carnivalium (Interlude II) 0:58
7. Annasthesia 5:34
8. Sleepwaking (Interlude III) 0:46
9. The Face of the Girl (Like 5:13
Glass)
10. Momentum (Interlude IV) 0:58
11. Bullet 4:17
12. Airport (Ramps & Runways) 5:08
13. The Fall 3:01
Release Notes:
http://www.thecinematicunderground.com
At the turn of the century, the eldest Johnson brother disappeared into his
room.
For three years he did not leave, although substantial documentation suggests
that he somehow managed to move to England and Germany during the period in
question. When asked about the physical impossibility of said events, he only
grins a silent and somewhat infuriating grin; and so we shall not press the
issue. It remains, in any case, that three years later he emerged from his room
with a guitar, a microphone, (a few used, transcontinental ticket-stubs) and a
glint in his eye. He said, to no one in particular, ôI have a story in my head.
LetÆs make a record.ö His younger siblings, who werenÆt doing anything in
particular at the moment, said, ô Ok.ö
And thus was born The Cinematic Underground, whose colourful cast of
international characters included a film composer, a classically-trained piano
instructor, a log-cabin builder, a high-school student, a dancer, a grade-school
teacher, a reluctant actor, an architect, a failed novelist, an illustrator and
a landscape gardener.
All of whom were also multi-instrumentalists.
After recording the concept-narrative Annasthesia, the band promptly spread
itself across New York, Boston, the Rocky Mountains and England (where Mr.
Johnson had this time incontestably moved). The Cinematic Underground then
passed their collective time writing, recording, painting, designing a fashion
boutique and composing the original score for the award-winning Sundance film,
Brick.
Everyone was moderately happy for two years. Some failed in romantic
relationships, some grew weary in vocations, and then the log-cabin builder
married the piano instructor, which seemed to make them both happier.
After developing the live show in the U.K. all the members of The
Cinematic Underground stopped whatever they were doing and relocated to Boston
in order to finally bring the epic stage-production of their
critically-acclaimed debut to life. Drawing inspiration from the theatre,
architectural theory, archaic literary structure, and childrenÆs book
illustrations, they set out to present the story of Annasthesia live: a precise
tragedy of the recent past told through the combination of many artistic
disciplines; a concert resembling a novel; a nerve-touching autopsy of
existence:
a story of love and escape