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November 02, 2004
the winston giles orchestra - promo ep
Firstly, I'd like to apologize to the Winston Giles Orchestra for leaving their CD in the bottom of my backpack collecting skunge and general bottom of backpack muck. Luckily it cleaned up a treat. (Or that the very least, well enough so that the cd still works.)
Yeah, so if you get a copy that's as vintage as this example, you're cool and there's no need to keep smoking and wearing your fancy von dutch hat backwards.
This is a very slick sounding record actually. Quite professional sounding mix, with a good variety of tunes. I really want to get a copy of "Soundtracks for Sunrise" so I can check out more of the sounds. Musicially it wanders, but premdominantly it features excellent samples and live sounding intrumental recordings beside more electronic ambient beats. I really cannot fault these tracks, beside having very polished production values - almost to a point if you get what I mean...
Maybe because musically the first track "We wait for sunrise" shares a strong similarity to lemon jelly's body of work, i'm a bit unsure of how to rate this. Theres that same whimsical building and progression of the tune, having a listen to the streaming version of the full album online, a few songs share this layered acoustic guitar sound. I'm not sure how I feel about it musically, as that sound is pretty well nailed by Lemon Jelly. But once again a sampler cd like this takes their music out of context. Most of my concerns are put to rest by Mercy for the Wicked which has a really nice combination of fatter synth sounds and very tidy drum (samples or playing?) sounds. It finishes up with The Banished Matadors, which is a flamenco inspired number. Very solid, psychedelic electronic awaits if you grab yourself a copy of this, or even better the full album, Soundtracks for Sunrise.
Winston Giles Orchestra Promo EP
File Under: Surreal beats.
Website:Winstongilesorchestra.com
Track Listing
1. We wait for sunrise
2. Mercy for the wicked
3. The banished matadors
Posted by funnelbc at November 2, 2004 08:31 PM
Comments
I heard one of the tracks this morning on the radio and think it is pretty cool. As I was waking up, I dod not hear the whole track, but I am sure to give it another listen when I have a moment.
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at November 4, 2004 09:11 AM
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