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...according to our Phil on Thu 01 Oct, 2009.
Jonny Trunk unleashes his 2nd album to the world on his nostalgia ridden Trunk label. Scrapbook is on CD/LP though so far only the CD has arrived (no surprises there...) Anyway Scrapbook is a curious beast. I think the title says it all... it's a whole mish mash of ideas thrown into one place which largely work. There's elements of instrumental hip hop (the more soundtracky side of things), early electronics, bits of jazz, some coffee table cheese. After a while the album ends up sounding a bit like Lemon Jelly album. It's light and frothy and not to be taken too seriously. That way you'll enjoy it the most I reckon.* This is the second album from Jonny Trunk, the man behind cult label Trunk Records. It really doesn’t sound like anything else. Well as you’d expect from Trunk it’s anything but normal, with the man drawing on influences both far, wide and quite weird. Throughout this musical freak show he brings us the man who sings with no throat, a Japanese choir, some wife-swapping and some maths.
* Following the success of his debut album ‘The Inside Outside’ (JBH008CD) in 2004 (4/5 in Mojo etc, see below), Jonny has continued to make music. The sounds he creates are based on all his musical loves - film music, TV music,library music, strange music, sex music, jazz, a bit of folk and early electronics. Those influences clearly permeate the tracks he has made over the last few years, and all can be heard here in his Scrapbook.
* The name Scrapbook has been chosen as many of the recordings released here are fragments, curiosities, ideas, unfinished musical symphonies, recording where time has interfered too much. But according to Jonny "our attention spans have diminished, we are more used to sound bites, shorter cues, weird little things". He continues "although a track might have an abrupt end and may only be 69 seconds long, I started it and finished it and it’s perfect the way it is."
* What makes Jonny’s music so unusual is that it really doesn’t sound like anything else. He mixes strange time signatures with unexpected vocals, peculiar instruments, samples from far away places and from odd corners of the
musical past. There’s a sort of bizarre musical alchemy at work here and as a whole Scrapbook works on many levels, and will confuse, excited, mystify and entertain for a while to come.
* Vinyl limited to 500.
* TRACKLISTING: 1 Busy Busy 2 Crank Two 3 DT Three 4 Fuddy Duddy 5 Glam 6Hawks 7 Heavy 8 Hot Coals 9 How Sweet It Is 10 K Piano 11 Lesbian 77 12MST 13. Multiplication 14. New Piano 15. News 16. PC Copper 17 Snowblind, 18 Spag bol 19 SR 20 Wife Swapper
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