Lost Prayers & Motionless Dances, by James Blackshaw (CD on Tompkins Square)

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	Format:	CD
	Label:	Tompkins Square
	Price:	£11.29
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What you say No-one has reviewed Lost Prayers & Motionless Dances by James Blackshaw yet. Give us your opinion on Lost Prayers & Motionless Dances by James Blackshaw. What the label says: Guitarist/composer James Blackshaw’s 2007 Tompkins Square album, The Cloud of Unknowing, received ‘Top 50 Albums of the Year’ honors from Pitchfork and Wire Magazine. Fresh off a U.S. and UK tour with Jose Gonzalez, and a bevy of year-end praise from the blogosphere to The New York Times, Tompkins Square reissues four catalog titles previously only available as tiny, limited edition CDR pressings. James will return to the U.S. this Spring in support of his next studio album, to be released in June of 2008. “Mr. Blackshaw plays 12-string acoustic guitar, picking endlessly circling, intertwining arpeggios: stately, tolling ones on the lower strings and faster ones, verging on tremolo, up above. Yet what usually emerges from the welter of notes is not bustle but tranquillity. The music has the same contemplative scope that turns countless tiny daubs into a Monet water lily.”  – Jon Pareles, The New York Times, Dec 31, 2007

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About the humble CD:

The CD is essentially a small portable face mirror which has an extra feature of being able to play music (through a thing known as a CD player). These CD's are a modern invention hence them being all shiny and digital. They can hold about 80 minutes of music and apparently are indestructible as you can smear jam on them and they still play (not as nourishing as toast mind you but when you're hungry.....). They sound crystal clear and are tiny convenient things. They lack the charm and warmth of their old analogue counterparts but their portability, convenience and ease of being duplicated make them a perfect thing of a thing for most folks. Jewel cases are the worst thing ever though and they really need to stop.

'I wonder if it's worth getting a skip?'