Artist : Tape & Bill Wells
Title : Fugue
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2010
Date : 01/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 04
Label : Immune
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 22:34 min
Size : 30,2 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Fugue 1 08:22
02.Fugue 2 04:57
03.Fugue 3 04:59
04.Fugue 4 04:16
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22:34 min
Fugue is pressed on high quality virgin
vinyl at RTI in an edition of 900 copies
for the world. Included is a free MP3
download coupon.
Immune Recordings is proud to present
Fugue, a brand new mini-album from Tape
& Bill Wells.
Tape and Bill Wells first met in
Stockholm while Bill was performing his
music with The Concretes and Jens
Lekman. Both artists were aware of each
otherÆs work and upon this first meeting
they spoke of collaborating together on
a recording. A year later Bill invited
Tape to perform three concerts together
at Triptych Festival in Scotland. During
their visit a day was spent recording at
Ca Va Sound in Glasgow. Those recordings
were the start of something truly
special. In 2008 Bill traveled to
Stockholm to again perform some concerts
with Tape and it was during this visit
that a week was spent recording at
TapeÆs own Summa Studio. It was the
recordings from this session that became
Fugue. The four tracks selected were the
ones where the music sounded like
something completely of itÆs own,
something other than Bill Wells or Tape.
With the use of piano, organ, Fender
Rhodes, guitar, bass, electronics, drums
and synthesizer Fugue is truly a unique
and timeless recording from these
legendary and prolific artists.
Simplistic, searching and fragile.
Bill Wells is a self-taught musician
from Falkirk. Bill first became involved
in the Jazz scene of Central Scotland,
backing artists such as Bobby Wellins
and Bruce Adams. In 1989 he formed the
Bill Wells Octet, which featured most of
ScotlandÆs leading Jazz musicians at the
time, as well as London based players
such as Harry Beckett and Lol Coxhill.
He then started working with Glasgow
bands such as The Pastels and Future
Pilot AKA and has since gone on to
record for a variety of labels such as
Domino, Geographic, Leaf, Creeping Bent,
Karaoke Kalke, Textile, P-Vine and Wee
Black Skelf.
Bill Wells has toured the world with a
wide variety of musicians such as the
Japanese band Maher Shalal Hash Baz,
Swedish singer/songwriter Jens Lekman,
and German electronica musician Stefan
Schneider. Bill is currently a member of
the Isobel Campbell / Mark Lanegan band
and he has ongoing projects with the
Bill Wells Trio, The National Jazz Trio
Of Scotland, Aidan Moffat, and a line up
including Annie Whitehead, Stefan
Schneider and Barbara Morgenstern. Last
Summer he began work on a recording
featuring Jim OÆ Rourke on guitar. Bill
has also worked with Kevin Ayers,
Richard Youngs, Teenage Fanclub, Evan
Parker, Arab Strap, David Tibet, Frida
Hyvonen, Kid Loco, Barry Guy, Jad Fair,
Bridget St John and Benni Hemm Hemm.
Swedish trio Tape was formed in 2000 by
brothers Andreas and Johan Berthling
with Tomas Hallonsten. Taking cues both
from pop, experimentalism, and
minimalism their sound has become
recognized internationally and is
clearly something of its own. Their
first album Opera was released on the
HΣpna imprint (which Johan is a co-owner
of) in 2002. Working intuitive, all by
themselves, they created mini symphonies
out of electronic sounds paired with a
stunning melodic lyricism. With an array
of electronic and acoustic instruments
at hand they have gone on to release
three additional full length albums
(Milieu, Rideau, and Luminarium). In
2006 they collaborated with Japanese duo
Tenniscoats for their album Tan-Tan
Therapy. The same year they recorded in
Tokyo with Japanese quartet Minamo for
the album Birds of a Feather. Tape are
truly masters of their craft.
TapeÆs Johan Berthling also plays in the
Sten Sandell Trio (with pianist Sten
Sandell and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love)
as well as the group Fire! (with Mats
Gustafsson and Andreas Werliin). He is
also a member of the live band of El
Perro Del Mar and Taken By Trees (along
with TapeÆs Tomas Hallonsten).
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