Description:	3" CDs on Fenetre Records
	Format:	CD single
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Fenetre
	Price:	£4.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Phil on 11 December 2008.

Boy am I tired today. Getting up was the biggest chore of my life this morning. I can't think of a harder thing I've had to do in my life. Sure if I lived out in the wild and had to hunt for food and cope with the elements things would be mushc much harder. I don't... I'm a moaning westerner and moaning is what I do best (according to the wife). I'll stop there... Onto Jasper TX with a bonus 3" CD called Closet Ghosts (I just like the word bonus...... it's not really a bonus) of fuzzy warm electronics with some electro acoustic thunder to steal the show. It's very lovely. 6 tracks in total which are soothing my angry and miserable self. I've just noticed it says log in the bottom right of Dreamweaver and it's putting me off. I can't work in these conditions. Warm lush atmospherics which are proper doing the biz for me.

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What their label says...

Fenêtre Records follows up last year's 3" EP by Beneva vs. Clark Nova by welcoming none other than Dag Rosenqvist to the label roster. This prolific Gothenburg-based Swedish musician - already with five full-length albums to his name since 2005 - is probably well-known as Jasper TX (and also member of prog-rock outfit De La Mancha) to most fans of guitar-based electronica and the "laptop folk"/americana/shoegaze scene. Also, Jasper TX should be synonymous with lovely ambient drones centered around Dag's trademark, analogue guitar sounds. Contrary to the last 3" on Fenêtre featuring two long ambient pieces, Jasper TX here offers a collection of six diversely built-up compositions or closet ghosts - complementing a recurring theme from the preceding 3" release yet also offering something unique and uplifting - reminiscent of his peers upholding the traditions of guitar-based instrumentals like Fennesz, Tape, Tim Hecker, Library Tapes, Seaworthy, Sickoakes, etc.

Rosenqvist - an aficionado for analogue and lo-fi textures is an expert at composing melancholic soundscapes based around simple guitar themes embellished in rich patterns of sounds extracted from synths and organs, other string instruments, field recordings and other toyish effects. The music is very heartfelt and personal, bearing witness of an awareness and empathy in the composer. And though at the offset the music may seem bleak and shrouded in an all-encompassing gloomy darkness, at some point does Rosenqvist's beliefs in hope and a prevailing optimism shine through to leverage a lighter counter-weight to the darkness and dispelling any brooding in the listener through soothing melancholic tones.

Tracklist
01 I’m Asleep On the Floor While Sunbeams Grace My Tired Head
02 Gone, Away…
03 Warmth
04 And When We Die, God Makes Angels of Us All
05 Golden
06 To Felixstowe