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Recommended by us on 17th July 2009
...according to our Brett on Thu 16 Jul, 2009.
Oh nice one, more irritatingly hard to identify 3" CDs on Rusted Rail! Just what our stockrooms need! It's a good job their releases tend to be of a very high standard innit. Otherwise I'd have to start windmilling. They do good press releases too, I've just read the one for this Dovetail Consort release and it's a beauty - leaving me totally at sea to find more words to add to it. It does mention Can though so I guess I should make it clear that it sounds next to nothing like them in practice, it's obviously more their musical approach that he's interested in rather than their overall sound. Essentially these tracks are based on simple, but heavily edited, folky guitar pieces which take on an almost mantra-like quality through the repetition of notes and phrases. It's quite beautiful really.Rusted Rail is proud to release the “East & West” EP by The Dovetail Consort. This Bristol-based project was founded in 2008 by Tim Newman after years of experience playing in bands and writing for television and other musical avenues. As hinted by the title, the EP combines both eastern and western instrumentation and tonalities, a concept also contained in the cover photograph. “I recorded these tracks by playing a knot of lead parts over a repeating rhythm. The structure owes more to the stripping away of parts than the creating of them, like a sculptor creating by chipping away at material instead of adding to it. Holes in space are the gaps that allow the music to make sense” says Newman. “Probably the biggest influence is Can. They way they jam on one chord/note frees them from the rock music three or four chord progression format. I think only a couple of the The Dovetail Consort tracks have chord progressions, the rest are improvisations around a single note drone or something similar.” This 3inch hand-stamped EP/mini-album is housed in a handmade sleeve.
The Dovetail Consort
“East & West EP”
1. Devotional
2. Three Weeks
3. 1919
4. Elastic Folk
5. Holes In Space
6. Mainsail
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