Artist : Part Timer
Title : Real to Reel
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2010
Date : 12/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : Lost Tribe Sound
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 52:37 min
Size : 68,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.The Distance Between One 03:01
02.Campsite Sundown 02:38
03.Unfound 05:36
04.A Long Inhalation 03:11
05.Suspended Belief 03:50
06.The Runner 05:32
07.Where We Used To Go 05:05
08.Interalia 04:20
09.In Your Hand 03:46
10.Untold, Unfold 04:51
11.ItÆs A Storm 02:50
12.Never Meant To Be 05:14
13.Taken Along Quietly 02:43
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52:37 min
The new full-length album from Part
Timer comes housed in a custom gatefold
CD wallet and is limited to 500 copies
for the world.
The music of Part Timer has a rare kind
of stillness and beauty, an ambient
pastoral folk that evokes sunshine
glistening through dew on a cold winters
morning. His music is the antidote to
bluster, an opportunity to step away
from the noise and freneticism of daily
life and sink into a world of stately
simplicity. It moves along like a gentle
exhale of breath, a lush, sublime,
shimmering beauty, evolving slowly, the
gentle strumming of guitar, low organ
drones, melodica, glockenspiel, ukulele
or tin whistles, all flowing together
like a hushed whisper designed solely
for your ears. Then thereÆs these
understated electronic flourishes that
skitter around the edges, an earthy
organic form of digitalia that
occasionally provides a certain textural
density to the tunes, like a frequency
beamed in from afar.
Part Timer is the alias of John
McCaffrey, a Northern Englander now
based in Melbourne Australia. HeÆs
amassed a slew of releases for UKÆs
Moteer & Mobeer label, Under the Spire,
and JapanÆs Flau respectively, whilst
also releasing two albums of electronica
in his duo Clickits with Jonny Russell.
Yet Real to Reel is an unmistakable
progression in his craft. Recorded over
the last few years itÆs less beat
orientated than itÆs predecessors, a
suite of loose rustling electro organic
soundscapes, over which the likes of
Nicola Hodgkinson from Leeds three piece
Empress, Melbourne songstress Heidi Elva
(who also contributes harp), and JohnÆs
wife Danielle intone gracefully. In fact
thereÆs a greater balance of vocal to
instrumental pieces than ever before. He
also enlists extraordinary Kansas based
artist Aaron Martin who contributes
mournful cello, providing additional
gravity to McCaffreyÆs introspective
musings.
Ultimately Real to Reel is music for
waiting, for opening up time and
creating space, allowing the listener to
enjoy each delicate gesture, each subtle
movement. ItÆs gorgeous drifting music,
thirteen mesmerizing pieces that offer a
gentle emotion laden respite from the
bustle and bluster of daily life.
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