Artist: Dennis Hopper Choppers
Title: Be Ready
Label: D.Wink
Genre: Folk
Bitrate: 254kbit av.
Time: 00:41:48
Size: 79.86 mb
Rip Date: 2011-05-03
Str Date: 2011-06-27
01. Good To Me 4:32
02. All Could Come True 2:41
03. Girl Walked Out Of Town 4:15
04. All That I Once Thought 3:26
05. My Destiny 3:37
06. Long Trip Home 3:23
07. Moscow Nights 3:20
08. Blue 3:11
09. Razor Gang 1:51
10. Number 1 4:04
11. Heart To Dry 3:05
12. Come To My Party 4:23
Release Notes:
To write songs that would become 'Be Ready', the second album by Dennis
Hopper Choppers, Ben Nicholls holed up in a house in the desert just
outside Tabernas in the South of Spain. There, on a previous visit
during an evening of Ducados smoke and brandy, a family member told Ben
the story of a friend of hers who had been murdered by her own son,
leaving an empty house whose ownership was in limbo. It was in this
house, a stones throw from where the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns
such as 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' were filmed, that 'Be Ready'
took shape; and it was from the quiet of this desert hideout that Ben's
vision for something larger than the one-man-band scene which had
embraced the previous DHC incarnation, evolved.
Self-released in 2008, Ben's debut album 'Chop' saw him as a
one-man-band, simultaneously playing guitar, bass drum, high hat, organ
bass pedals, vox-organ and a 1969 Fender Dual Showman amplifier
originally designed for Dick Dale. Described by Glasvegas' James Allan
as his favourite album of the year, 'Chop's first single'Little Johnny'
won Steve Lemacq's BBC 6music's Roundtable vote, whilst the
accompanying video was "Video Of The Week" on Nemone's show. The
follow-up single, 'Listening To MC5', made Radcliffe & Maconie's "Pick
Of The Week".
No longer riding solo, 'Be Ready' sees Ben enlisting a host og
musicians including full-time members Nat Woodcock on Vox organ and
John Greswell on viola and mandolin. A large cast of musicians gathered
in a South London studio to cut the bulk of the record live in a two
day, non-stop music marathon session - only working out what they had
got as they went through the tapes over the subsequent days. Those who
got the call included the skronk baritone sax of Pete Wareham from
Acoustic Ladyland, Brian Eno sidekick Leo Abraham's guitar
atmospherics, Anthony Rossomandos' (Dirty Pretty Things/Libertines)
trumpet signalling a bedraggled retreat and members of the Bach Choir,
recreating the fairytale magic of list Disney soundtracks.
The 12 track album was produced by Ben Hillier (Depeche Mode, Blur)
after hearing some dictaphone demos of Ben's tracks. Before Hillier had
finished work mixing the album of his ex-NASA radio electronics studio
rig, a track was snapped up for the soundtrack of The Mighty Boosh's
tour documentary.
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