(Catalogue no. 15680)
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| Title: |
New Days |
| Artist: |
For Barry Ray |
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Label: |
Room40 |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 10.00 |
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Title Description:
For Barry Ray is the husband and wife duo of Carina ThorŽn (Sweden) and John Chantler (Australia). After a number of compilation appearances, long gone CDrs and lathe cut records under various guises, the pair bunked down over the winter of 06/07 to lay the foundations for ÔNew DaysÕ, kicking off things Christmas morning with the gift of a London turned silent and a sky free of planes.
On ÔNew DaysÕ, the sound moves from the wash of organs and lofi analog detail that opens the record to ecstatic blasts of freeform percussion and electronics, some hypnotic distorted keyboards and looped flute tones. Dom Garwood (Alexander Tucker / Ladywoodsman et al) dropped by for a meal and laid down some clarinet parts. The records second half increases the sense of space. An old Swedish folk melody is buried beneath waves of fuzz while Loren Connors-esque guitar notes step gently in the wake. Two short interludes follow, the thrum and pause of ÔThe Porcelain HorseÕs analog tape manipulations and the heavily processed guitar loop of ÔIf Mingus was your MotherÕ - its intimately suggested backbeat gently peeled back by computer interventionsÉ The record closes with a piece of extended quietitude Ð acoustic guitar and piano notes ring out against great chunks of silence.
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