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Description: | CD EP on three:four |
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| Format: | CD single | |
| Genre(s): | Experimental / Abstract | |
| Label: | three:four | |
| Price: |
£7.69
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
...according to our Dave on 26 August 2010.
...Take my wife..no please take her..My wife sez to me "I want you to take me some place I've never been before, I said "Where ..the Kitchen.." ..I just got back from a pleasure trip.. I just took my mother in law to the airport..Sorry about that I suffer from Henny Youngman Syndrome and sometimes it sneaks up on me like a tiger in the darkness. This album is a bit like that. If you looked in a dictionary and looked up the words "Miserable" and "Ambiance" the chances are that Take would be gazing moodily back at you through a cigarette haze. Take is the brainchild of Jerome Boutinot, and its quite pleasant. Its a maudlin collection of soundscapes and dark hearted electronica. It's quite nice to have your earholes fondled like this sometimes. It is a bit like "Driving Miss Daisy" in the sense its quite serene and doesn't exceed 2 MPH. It do sent annoy me though like "Driving Miss Daisy"...stupid Miss Daisy (the daft racist)....so if this sounds like your type of thing you might wanna listen to it in the comfort of your own houses.
After opening our series of split vinyls with white/lichens last year, :take: is back with an EP, and this time, it's through a new media, i.e. CD format. This great adventure between the label and the guitarist goes on and we hope that we will continue our collaboration in the future. That being said, you should know that we are truly fond of this beautiful project that begun two years ago. Recorded and mixed at home with heart by Laurent Bichara, it was then mastered by Jeremy Lemos. This should be the last step before :take:'s debut album. Through the four tracks of this self-titled mini-album, :take: softly brings you into his world, while adding dreamlike melodies and new instrumentations to his cyclic layers. His sonic range truly expanded compared to his first recordings. The guitar is still central, but it's either played to create drones and repetitive sampled patterns, or hit with sticks for a more percussive effect. This combination of accurately controlled techniques leads to this elusive twenty minutes' record. Touche develops virtually one note after another. It smoothly sets in motion, creating a surreal and soul-stirring sensation, like on the morning following a sleepless night, staring at the rising sun. L'endroit du crâne paisible could be somewhat misleading: if the harmonics follow one another as idle waves, they end into a blizzard of intertwined melodies, and crash onto the percussive and minimalist track guerre silence. Finally, nom de plume closes this record on a more mysterious touch. The eerie sounds are set against warm guitar chords played in repetitive mode to soothe your spirit.
1. Touche (4:37)
2. L'endroit du crâne paisible (7:28)
3. Guerre silence (2:30)
4. Nom de plume (5:31)
