Games Of Position/ Casino Lisboa, by Phelan Sheppard/ Niandra Ladies (7" on Static Caravan)

A Norman Records recommendation (6th September 2007)

Description:	7" on Static Caravan SPECIAL PRICE - BE QUICK	UK ORDERS OVER £50 SHIP FREE!
Format:	7"
Label:	Static Caravan
Price:	£1.99
Catalogue number:	VAN141
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Rating: ecstatic This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.

One of my favorite records of last year (I think it was last year.. it could have been this year... fu ck knows) was the Phelan Sheppard album on Leaf. The more I hear it the more fantastic it sounds. So here's a brand new 7" by said geniuses (genii?) with them and Ninandra Ladies (who I know nothing about). 'Games Of Position' is beautiful stuff... lovely acoustic guitar meanderings (along the lines of State River Widening) with some gentle electronics thrown in which add to the general fantastic ness, and that's all topped off with some beautiful female vocals (from said ladies) which will melt you into submission. It's all very brooding as well .....Glory be... Hallelujah and that.

What the label says:

The product of musical internet ‘dating’, London multi-instrumentalists Keiron Phelan and David Sheppard encountered the inscrutable Franco-Italian Niandra Ladies via MySpace in 2006 and were immediately drawn to their mercurial electro-acoustic textures. The Londoners - the duo behind State River Widening and a critically acclaimed 2006 album (Harps Old Master) under their own names for the Leaf label - proposed a four-way collaboration. The peripatetic Ladies, now berthed in Gothenburg and Barcelona respectively, responded favourably, and soon files were whizzing back and forth across the European mainland, with Phelan and Sheppard wedding their acoustic guitars, woodwind, strings, Fender Rhodes and percussion to the Ladies’ ambient sculptures. Vocals, courtesy of the Ladies’ English pal Laura Sharpe and Phelan/Sheppard’s sometime Spanish collaborator Ines Naranjo, were spliced in, David and Keiron mixing the polyglot smorgasbord into two gleaming tracks in a studio beneath a ukulele shop in London’s Spitalfields. Games Of Position is based on a recitation from an old anthology of board games; it’s enigmatic, melodious vocals meticulously interleaved with fluttering electronics, plangent acoustic guitars and swallow-diving violas. This is elegant baroque pop music as re-imagined by outsider artists and, honestly, it sounds like no on else. Casino Lisboa is a fizzing atmospheric detour – equally alluring if tending toward the abstract. It proffers a kind of free jazz folk-ambient landscape – Miles Davis meets John Cage in an Alice Coltrane dreamscape – all of it judiciously decorated with the French horn of Thomas Allard. Strictly Ltd seven inch vinyl edition of 400 copies.

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