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Our album of the week (24th February 2011)
...according to our Phil on Wed 23 Feb, 2011.
Good things come in all shapes and sizes and this particularly goodie comes in a small box complete with printed inner, badge, a mini magnifying glass and a CD on a nipple thing. I had no idea what the need for a magnifying glass was until I took the CD off the nipple and was confronted with the smallest text I'd ever seen. And after holding the tiny magnifying glass over the miniature text I could read it. Bonzer! It feels weirdly interactive and also makes you feel like a Sherlock Holmes with gigantiscism. Both things are good. Anyway on this you get 60 tracks by 60 artists, each track is a minute so you get to spend an hour with this box-o-funtime. The exquisite attention to detail isn't just spent on the packaging, the whole project is insanely ambitious and eloquently executed. On here you get exclusive tracks by Gareth S Brown, Pete Astor, Hannah Peel, Opiate, Jannick Schou, Xela, Dollboy, Ellis Island Sound, James Brewster , Jasper TX, Sanso-xtro , Roll the Dice, Plinth, Ensemble, Textile Ranch, Darren Hayman, Heather Woods Broderick, Fieldhead, M. Ostermeier, Felix Kubin, ISAN, Scanner, Machinefabriek, Gareth Dickson, Relmic Statute, Ringinglow, Offthesky, Lene Charlotte Holm, brave timbers, Clem Leek, Isnaj Dui, Junkboy, Seasons (pre-din), Danny Norbury, d_rradio, Will Long, The Boats, Dustin O'Halloran, Message To Bears, P Jørgensen to name some of 'em. For all the different styles on there the album flows well and it doesn't feel disjointed, which you'd think it would do given the tracks are only a minute long. There's barely a gap between each track so it flows beautifully and the styles on board range from the pastoral lovelyness you'd expect to electronics, singer songwriter, soundtracky business, ambient droney business. All sorts! It's a thoroughly delightful package!
Perhaps by definition, compilation albums tend to be curate’s egg affairs. Often less than the sum of their parts, even the most artfully assembled ‘mix-tape’ tends to sag in places, curatorial skill being a rare virtue in music (a fact borne out by listening to 90 percent of contemporary radio shows). There are, however, exceptions to this rule.
Which brings us to Minute Papillon, the label’s latest and most ambitious curatorial exercise yet. Comprising 60, one-minute-long tracks purveyed by a pan-global retinue of left-of-centre artists, it’s as conceptually sharp as it is consistently intriguing on the ear and offers a litany of diverting vignettes that run the gamut of ‘post-classical’ soundscapes, electronic sound designs, miniature pop songs, folk reveries, guitar soli and several stations in between. Somehow, its three score miscellany of succinct essays feels ‘all of a piece’, effortlessly transforming less-is-more concision into an opulent embarrassment of riches; a fact enhanced by the album’s typically enigmatic artwork which features an exclusive image by celebrated Irish contemporary fine artist Eva Rothschild.
Owing an acknowledged debt to such precedents as the Morgan Fischer-curated, 1981 Cherry Red compilation Miniatures and The Residents’ Commercial Album from1980, Minute Papillon is the kind of inscrutable cause célèbre album that no switched on collector of contemporary music should be without. Boasting contributions from the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, North America and Japan, Minute Papillon sustains a rigorous ‘all killer no filler’ regimen over 60 tracks, which is no mean curatorial achievement. In the unlikely event that one or other contribution doesn’t fully satisfy, the listener is safe in the knowledge that there’ll be another along, quite literally, in a minute.
Minute Papillon features exclusive 1 minute tracks by:
Martin Hall, Gareth S Brown, Cédric Pin, ( r ), Pete Astor, Franck Alba, Hannah Peel, Opiate, Wixel, Jannick Schou, Xela, Dollboy, Ellis Island Sound, Jenny Brand, James Brewster , Jasper TX, sanso-xtro , Roll the Dice, Plinth, Ensemble, Directorsound, Textile Ranch, The Home Current , Darren Hayman, Heather Woods Broderick, Fieldhead, Olivier Namblard, M. Ostermeier, Felix Kubin, ISAN, Scanner, Machinefabriek, Gareth Dickson, Ark Of Noise, Relmic Statute, micro boredom, Ringinglow, Offthesky, Lene Charlotte Holm, brave timbers, Richard Moult, Tyneham House, Clem Leek, Isnaj Dui, Fureasteen, Junkboy, Rickard Jäverling, Primitive Northerner, Seasons (pre-din), Danny Norbury, Winter Cabin , d_rradio, Hybernation, Will Long, The Boats, Dustin O'Halloran, 30Km Inland, Dirk Markham, Message To Bears, P Jørgensen
The compilation is presented in a deluxe, silver foil blocked jewel box with magnifying glass.
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