Blue States - Man Mountain
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Artist: Blue StatesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-10-01
Music Label: Eighteenth Street
Soundtracks:
- Metro Sound
- What We've Won
- Colouration
- Only Today
- Studio 20
- Bare Bones
- Season Song
- Man Mountain
- The Winfield Audition
- Doublespeak
- Halfway Highway
- Adrift
- The Interceptors
Free Music Notes for Man Mountain
Free Music Review: An ornate, complex sound scene
Hit: 5 Stars
This album defies categorisation. Andy Dragazis takes individual writing credits for 7 of the tracks, sharing the rest with vocalist Tahita Bulmer. Her voice fits well within the overall sound that is developed across the whole album.Dragazis plays most of the "instruments" on most of the tracks, the other common factor on all but one track being Jon Chandler on drums who propels the pieces with a very 'live' drum sound.Elsewhere instruments are added carefully in layers, with a skillful use of cello and violins, and trumpet and trombone (Gary Kavanagh & Billy Rumfill-excellent throughout). There's a choir on "Season Song" and washes of other sounds (conga and lap steel for example) but the whole project is clearly driven by Dragazis' notion of what he wanted to create. It's an album that will need a lot of listening to to reveal everything that it has to offer. Favourite tracks for me are "Colouration", which has lots of added percussion, "Studio 20" an electronic confection, "Doublespeak" which has all manner of unexpected instrumentation courtesy of Dragazis, and finally "Adrift" which has some lovely tonal shading.The other really good thing about this album is that it will make your system rattle as it delivers it's extraordinary sound screen. It seems pretty pointless trying to categorise what this is about, it's a remarkable album, best played very loud with time to listen to it as a coherent whole.
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