Description:	CD on Make Mine Music
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Neoclassical
	Label:	Make Mine Music
	Price:	£8.49
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Phil on 30 October 2008.

Got some nice stuff to review this week. The Textile Ranch/ Plinth CD on Make Mine Music is up next and I'm taken by the cover. Nice brown cardboard affair with some crazy whacked out picture of bird man on there smothered with embossed red text. Doesn't sound very interesting I'm sure but the words aren't flowing today. I can assure you it looks lovely.... Textile Ranch is Glen Johnson and Plinth is a chap called M Tanner. This also features the guy from Klima doing his thing all over the place (not entirely sure what that is but it does sound nice...) Tanner and Johnson lobbed ideas, files and tracks through our very Royal Mail to each other til this 44 minute beast was spawned from their collective brain organ. It's not a split CD then... more of a collaboration. It's called 'The Rest I Leave To The Poor' by the way. I always forget to do the title thing. Worra goon. This is probably one of the best things I've heard on the label. It starts off all xmassy and seasonal with it's ample twinkles and then it traverses a more haunting style with wierd ethereal sounding vocals shitting my ears up. The twinkles re appear though and they continue along a neo clasical train of beauty picking up electronic passengers playing acoutic guitars. This is seriously a very lovely thing as it's just so damned good from start to end. Highly recommended!!

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What their label says...

This 44 minute piece may structurally resemble a classical composition - divided as it is into several interlocking stanzas - but it's difficult to place it comfortably within the realm of modern music. If anything, 'The Rest....' evokes the otherwordly, fantastical obsessions of the Victorians (Conan Doyle, Lear, Grandville, Wellcome, etc) through means of meticulously manipulated instrumentation, samples and voice.Plinth, of course, is no stranger to Victoriana. In 2007, the Dorset-based multi-instrumentalist and founder of the Dorset Paeans record label released, 'Plays Victorian Machine Music' - an EP made up entirely from sounds generated by antiquated parlor machines and music boxes. A further full-length Plinth album, 'Music For Smalls Lighthouse' will be released on the Current 93-associated, Durtro Jnana label by the end of this year. Tanner has also played as a member of Pantaleimon, Directorsound, United Bible Studies and with Sharron Kraus live.  Glen Johnson founded the Anglo-French "ghost-rock" unit, Piano Magic, in 1996 and since then has released over 30 records on a multitude of different labels, from 4AD to Morr Music to Important Records, including collaborations with Low, Vashti Bunyan, Cornershop and Tarwater. In 2004, his debut album as Textile Ranch, 'Bird Heart In Wool,' a portfolio of abstract, melodic electronica, was released on the Very Friendly label. A further Textile Ranch album will see the light of day in Spring 2009. Tanner and Johnson may have met on the internet but their collaboration here relied greatly on Her Majesty's Royal Mail service, swapping files by post, adding, subtracting, remoulding, magnifying found sounds and home recordings. Angele David-Guillou, a regular contributor to Piano Magic recordings and chanteuse with her own project, Klima (s/t album on Peacefrog, 2007) generously guests on vocals and other instruments here, whilst the mysterious Ms Autumn Grieve adds further voicings.  This one-off collaboration marks the 51st release for Make Mine Music, the pioneering British independent label that is owned, financed and maintained by its artists. A special label compilation and selective concerts around the UK will litter the next few months. 'The Rest, I Leave To The Poor' comes as a strictly ltd edition (1000 copies), letter-pressed sleeve of recycled chipboard with red metallic ink finish.