Cane 141
Lost At Sea

This record left our Ant feeling unmoved.
This Cane 141 'Lost At Sea' album sounds a bit crackers until a quick Google search reveals that it's the soundtrack to a collaborative installation with Roisin Coyle. There's a bonkers vocal narrative and plenty of mad trippy electronics / field recordings. I guess it would make more sense with the visuals. Pretty cool though nevertheless. Digipak CD on Micropolis Records.

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This record left kidbuck feeling ecstatic.
Over the past 10-odd years, Galway-based Cane 141 - effectively the dabblings of Michael Smalle, who is occasionally aided and abetted by like-minded musicians - have operated not so much under the radar as off the screen.
Created specifically as a sonic accompaniment to a visual art installation (by Galway artist Roisin Coyle) for Project 06, the best compliment one can offer here is that this works very much as a stand-alone piece.
The theme (and I could be adrift here) is the sheer vastness of oceans and why/how humans are, comparatively speaking, utterly insignificant. The coup de grace - which anchors the listening experience - is the use of former Royal Navy officer, Commander Bill King, who tells salutary and salty sea stories as the music ebbs and flows around his words.
The best record of its type this year? Aye, aye, Cap'n. www.cane141.com Tony Clayton-Lea- The Irish Times : The Ticket
A quite beautifully obscure collection of electronic pieces written specially for an audio visual installation featuring artist roison coyle and michael smalle, the album features some really lovely lush ambient electronic sounds with an intrigueing narrative from a very posh gentleman as he talks about being out at sea with the navy, it may sound a wee bit obscure but its actually a highly entertaining listen as commander bill king keeps you involved from start to finish, when the chatter subsides you are then left with some lovely lush ambient sounds not too far away from the likes of fennesz or even the icy atmospherics of biosphere, november 2007
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Lost at Sea, the soundtrack CD by Cane141, the collaborative installation by Roisin Coyle and Cane141, October '07 - Galway and Dublin.
Lost at Sea is an audio/visual collaboration by two Galway artists, Roisin Coyle, visuals/illustrations and Michael Smalle [Cane141] audio/music. First shown at the Project '06 festival in Galway last year, it has since exhibited in May 2007 at the GraceSpace Gallery Brooklyn NYC.
Finally next month sees the launch of the exhibition's soundtrack, in effect the fourth record from Cane141, with two happenings in Galway and Dublin.
Whilst writing the more orthodox follow-on record from the 2005 Choice-nominated MoonPool, which will be ready in early 2008, Cane141 embarked on this more experimental body of work themed on the visual images of artist Roisin Coyle.
October sees this record being made available nationally through both a launch night in Nimmo's restaurant Galway (as part of Artisit?) on the 4th of October with a Cane141-inspired ambient dj set, featuring visuals from Lost at Sea plus a live performance from Chequerboard. ( www.myspace.com/chequerboardmusic)
Then later in the month in the grounds of IMMA Kilmainham, Dublin as part of the "Some Days Never End" [7 days and 7 nights of Music and Warhol] there will be a unique intimate installation of the work on show for the duration.
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