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new Flanger album - "Spirituals"
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sam i am
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Posted : Oct 27, 2005 05:22
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yo!
anyone been loving this album recently?!
I want more!!! 
who else does electronic big band music???
no-one?? didn't think so 
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blueOrb
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Posted : Oct 27, 2005 08:51
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Outolintu
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Posted : Oct 27, 2005 11:59
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damn it sam! 
GIVE US SOME INFO N O W
(reviewzzz pleaaazze.)
is it more like "templates" and "midnight sound" or like "inner space outer space" (or whatever the name was) OR something entirely new?
btw. that herbert geezer does electronic bigband music too.
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Outolintu
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Posted : Oct 27, 2005 12:45
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i just had to find some info right away.
but i'm still waiting for a review from sam
artists: Flanger
title: Spirituals
label: Nonplace
format: CD / LP
cat.no.: NON18
release date: 05.09.2005
tracklisting:
01. Funeral March
02. Crime In The Pale Moonlight
03. How Long Is The Wrong Way ?
04. Down The River
05. Music Is Our Secret Code
06. Tiny Tina
07. Hope To Hear Back Soon, Honey
08. Peninsula
09. In My Car (single version)
10. In My Car (bolt mix)
11. How Long Is The Wrong Way ? (extended)
12. Crime In The Pale Moonlight (short version)
press release:
This new Flanger album is all about re-imagining a period when music was still playful in itself - because back then, there was just no reason to be too serious about it.
Back then, people would come to call their songs Spirituals, for their inspiration to sing and play them came from above and would leave them in high spirits. Which was all the more reason to sing and play their songs.
As Atom™, one of the two main players behind the Flanger project, put it, Spirituals goes back to a time when "music was recorded in an almost documentary manner, when such things as "production" and recording techniques and technology did not yet exist - and therefore did not influence the nature of the musical creation itself. one could define it as a musically naive period. historically the last time music contained something like an immaculate, innocent spirit."
It is this spirit which Atom™ and his long-time Flanger comrade, Burnt Friedman, are trying to catch. Only that it's nearly a century onward, and they are doing it their own global way. Over the last three years, both have recorded material, sending their efforts back and forth electronically between their studios in Santiago de Chile and Cologne de Germany.
All the while, both kept touring the world with their diverse musical projects, always carrying their mobile recording units along to have musicians from many corners of the world play with them. Much like the fin-de-siecle researchers who recorded the first Spirituals. Only that afterwards, both would bend the recorded material, give it a little twist to this side and that - be playful just like in the olden days, but with the use of modern instruments.
This album is not about re-constructing endless virtuoso solos via mere knob-twiddling. With Spirituals, Flanger first of all want to explore and relive the emotional sides of this jazz-before-jazz, its moods and sentiments. As Friedman points out, the album may very well be seen as "the restoration of a lost sensibility".
http://www.nonplace.de/
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sam i am
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Posted : Oct 28, 2005 03:55
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hmmm.. well I won't give a full review, but the album is a full exploration of jazz themes with a decidedly 20s big band swing feel to it. Great male vocals on about half the tracks actually *add* to the feel of the album, rather than detracting from it as I feel they do to most electronic music, but, to be honest, this album can BARELY be classed as electronic - it's just too organic. Plenty of talented session musiscians combined with Flanger production genius = pure light hearted magic! "Down the River" is my personal fave at the moment.
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Outolintu
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Posted : Oct 28, 2005 14:57
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i listened to a sample of "peninsula" and
it sounds very much like the 20's. i am not sure if it's a good thing ...
hmmh, it's not a fast buy this album, have to hear some more before i can decide.
sam:
are there any electronics on the album?
the bleeps and skips from atomheart or cut/ paste beats?
or is it "just" "normally" recorded swing like any other swing album with a 20's feel to it?
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Mr.Hanky
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Posted : Oct 29, 2005 03:39
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Wow i had no idea they have a new album...
FLANGER rocks big time!
A very unique and innovative cross over blend between electronic programming with Jazz,
latin music and many other genres...
They released 3 great albums on NINJA TUNE,the first two are really something else...and both of the members (Atom heart and burnt friendman) have many other alter egos which are all worth checking out,especially SENIOR COCONUT who released a full KRAFTWERK tribute album - all in salsa and latin style,truly spectacular.
i must get this album ASAP...thanx for posting it!
oh and if your'e looking for more of the same style,GIVE UP NOW! nothing is like this shit...but if u must,i think the closest thing is Jagga jazzist from ninja tunes,though less electronic.
Other than that check out Berlin based lable SCAPE, which is focused on jazz and electronics fusions- http://www.scape-music.de .
For the big band sound,better check out LUKE VIBERT/WAGON CHRIST,it's less complex than Flanger but is more cheerfull and easy for the common ear  |
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sam i am
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Posted : Oct 31, 2005 04:44
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thanks for the tips. not into the latest Wagon Christ album so much, prefer the one before it
Jyrgen - it's not very electronic at all.. pretty much straight up big band tunes
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Outolintu
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Posted : Oct 31, 2005 10:23
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On 2005-10-29 03:39, Mr.Hanky wrote:
i think the closest thing is Jagga jazzist from ninja tunes,though less electronic.
For the big band sound,better check out LUKE VIBERT/WAGON CHRIST,
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jaga jazzist are fantastic but rather somekind of rock than jazz i think.
and you simply can't compare luke vibert with flanger. or can you?  well, you did... so it's possible. but still...
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Mr.Hanky
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Posted : Oct 31, 2005 13:49
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well Outolintu,i did not make a straight comparisson between the two,as they are in a totally different ballpark.I did say Vibert's less complex than Flanger,maybe i should have written WAY LESS COMPLEX hehe...
But there was a request for more Big-Band oriented artists and i stand by my words,Luke vibert mixes many big band elements in many of his trax.
Back to the topic,has anyone actually heard the full new Flanger album? i must say the "inner space" release was a dissapointment to me after the 1st two classics...
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sam i am
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Posted : Nov 1, 2005 05:21
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yes, I have heard the full new Flanger album
that's why I started this thread!
also, I'm not that into Jaga Jazzist
some of their tracks are OK, others are not
I don't really like their melodies or something.. their music is quite complex but a lot is unresolved maybe?
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Mr.Hanky
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Posted : Nov 1, 2005 11:57
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I don't really like their melodies or something.. their music is quite complex but a lot is unresolved maybe?
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dude i dont dig them at all just tried to think of somethin' as close as there is to our best men @ Flanger.
Jaga are also too acoustic sounding for my taste while Flanger can be almost psychedelic with thier supreme sampling and programming.
i urge you to check out some of atom heart's other projects - mainly his LB vocoder cover album(with classic electronic remakes of ANGIE,ashes to ashes and more) and also his album as MIDISPORT - another fine example of his fine skills with the sampler. |
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sam i am
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Posted : Nov 2, 2005 05:00
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hehe.. well if you think Jaga Jazzist are too acoustic, DO NOT BUY THIS ALBUM!!!
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Mr.Hanky
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Posted : Nov 2, 2005 12:45
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well i DID love all of burnt friedman's more acoustic albums(Burnt plays love songs etc).
just really didnt get into Jagga.
will look for the FLANGER album in japan in the next few days and hopefully come with a review soon |
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Amfibia
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Posted : Nov 5, 2005 15:27
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for those of you who like latin sound's
try kyoto jazz massive-spirit of the sun.
the most amaizing future/acid jazz album i ever heard ! |
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