But there IS a sense of something greater here a practice and methodology akin to meditation everything is thought out, programmed, and done for reason. For his ever growing fanbase - those Tamagotchi utopias are still shining ever present in crystalline hi-def. STAFF COMMENTS Matt says: Beginning with the pure celestial tones of "Breeze", you could be mistaken to think Apta had taken a turn towards Iasos' deep sound spirituality. ‘Spark’ is five minutes of impudent pizzacato that launches into the softest of beats, and closer ‘The Inward Eye’ is a gentle awakening with a smile a mile wide.
‘12v’ is the most Eno-esque, a delicate dance of puckish guitar and electric piano slowly subsumed by the ebb of modular synths. It is an idle sunny afternoon of a record, steeped in restless daydreams of hovering dragonflies and slow-moving water. Based in Manchester, he cites Sigur Ros and Boards of Canada as influences, but the album has more in common with the sense of pastoral stillness evoked so perfectly by Brian Eno on the blissful second side of Before And After Science. Festivals staring at shifting clouds, green grass tickling your neck…” So says Barry “Apta” Smethurst of the feel he was aiming to capture on this superlative collection of instrumentals.
“Hazy summer montages, worn film and distant fuzzy rock radio. Includes bonus track not on original release. New CD edition of January's quickly sold-out cassette 'Vignettes'. Never Be Peace On Earth (feat 2Pac) (3:39) Christmas Time In Crooklyn (feat Notorious BIG) (4:01)ģ. Woo Hah!! It's Christmas (feat Busta Rhymes) (4:44)ĥ. Amerigo Gazaway's widely acclaimed cut-up style reaches its festive zenith here as the world's greatest rappers don their Santa suit and dance under the mistletoe for a masterful mash-up album everyone's stocking needs.ģ. STAFF COMMENTS Martin says: A Christmas album like no other. It's basically the BEST gift you could buy any hip-hop lover this Christmas!! It never sounds cheesy, forced or contrived, just nestles itself nicely into the atmosphere of the season whilst piquing the attention of your most loved hip-hop fan.
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Some well known, classic wordsmiths have been segued into a festive sound bed full of horns, strings and tons Christmas cheer. From 2010 he seems to have been totally getting away with mashing up some of the biggest rhymes from hip-hop, with some of the choicest bits of soul, funk, and in this special case Christmas fare! **ALL REJOICE!! He does computer and film soundtracks, scores for documentaries and DJ mixes. Eric Harvey.Īmerigo Gazaway is the son of jazz trumpeter, trombonist & composer Gary Gazaway. I’ve never heard any musician summon everything I love about being from Indiana so perfectly. Onstage, Adams is gregarious and playfully self-effacing, a college town denizen telescoping backwards to the brief early 90s moment when “college rock” entered the corporate suite, and performers forced to become showmen retreated to the comfort of their native tongue: irony.AndOscillate Wiselyhas demonstrated for a decade that earnestness and sarcasm are as intricately bound in rock and roll'slingua francaas hang-ups and chill hangs. He doesn’t want to believe in anything, he didn’t create this body, helovesa parade. It’s all in fun, but it gets so personal. He's not Oscar Wilde, but a uniquely Midwestern type of deeply sincere romantic and dyed-in-the-wool goofball cast from the mold of Hoosier icons like Letterman and Vonnegut.
A sense that Adams is guiding his listeners toward a cosmic joke so personal, so inscrutable, so funny (“funny”), if you give him your attention. There’s a weird grandeur to Adams' music, starting with that fully formed, geekily majestic 2011 debut LP Oscillate Wisely, that I don’t hear in anything else, before or since. This is not to say that anything about Mike Adams and his band reminds me of the Smiths (especiallyMorrissey), as much as the idea that rock bands like Mike Adams At His Honest Weight take shape more or less as a thesaurus of past ideas-winking at them, borrowing them like a library book, checking them out from across the room, cloning them.īut the best stuff is more ineffable, far more than just cut-and-paste. For ten years now, I’ve understood “Oscillate Wisely” as a play on the Smiths’ instrumental “Oscillate Wildly”-itself, of course, a pun on Morrissey’s muse, Oscar Wilde. Recommended If You Like: Pedro The Lion, The Sea and Cake, David Bazan, Major Murphy, Kurt Vonnegut & Guided by Voices.
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