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310 is a sociological soundlab, originally based in Brooklyn, and later curated cross-country--via post--by sampling mavericks Joseph Dierker and Tim Donovan. After self-releasing two earlier 310 albums, Dierker left the outer boroughs for the Pacific Northwest. But he brought the sounds of the city with him. Donovan, a hip-hop engineer (the Roots, Erykah Badu, A Tribe Called Quest, Method Man), uses his studio know-how to work Dierker's loops of urban found-sound into compelling, beat-spiced collage.
THE DIRTY ROPE flings open a high-story window to the world of street-sound below. A melting-pot melange of ethnic voices and musical strains pours in--from corner groceries; from hawkers; from bars; from ghetto blasters; from radios; from passing vehicles; from churches, temples, and shrines; from road crews; from dusty '45s spinning in ballrooms and neighboring apartments; from pedestrians and playing children. Workers daydream about tropical beaches, inner-city pressures mount, and 310 finds music in the delicate balance. THE DIRTY ROPE ranges from joyous bustles of rhythm and human noise ("NOD," "Frosty Bardum," "Firing Line") to evocative ambient stretches ("Me Head Is Light," "Under the Blue Words," "Six Month Zazen"), all sequenced to reflect the shifting emotional climate of the concrete jungle.
310: Joseph Dierker, Tim Donovan.
Photographer: 310.
Alternative Press (3/00, p.97) - 4 out of 5 - "...a clever and funky mix of trip hop, acid jazz, hardcore techno and mellow ambience...everything flows together smoothly....Very nicely done - start to finish."
The Wire (2/00, p.58) - "...A cross-genre carnival/collage, its squeaks, eddies and irruptions drop out of some blue nowhere....gleeful, generous, a real laughing gas...Oddly anonymous...but intermittently sublime, a quiet riot."
Muzik (1/00, p.129) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...consolidates [their] reputation for crafted abstractions and weirdo dubby hip hop soundscapes of the highest order....this stuff worms its way into your senses and does a very slow funky wiggle. Unusually good." Dirty Rope Review
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There's an off-the-cuff manner to the opening songs of Eilen Jewell's Letters from Sinners & Strangers that makes the album easy to like. She builds "Rich Man's World" around bits and pieces of older folk songs, leaving the listener with the impression that she might have heard the song -- somewhere -- before. She follows with Eric Andersen's "Dusty Boxcar Walls," a song that likewise echoed Andersen's folk influences. Jewell's lazy Southern delivery on Letters from Sinners & Strangers, backed by full-band arrangements, reminds one of a mellower version of the Tarbox Ramblers' self-titled release. Like the Ramblers, Jewell delivers her version of traditional folk without slavishly replicating the old music in a familiar way, pulling the music into a more relevant present; unlike the Ramblers, she mixes oldies with originals and, arrangement-wise, is capable of replicating everything from Western swing crossed with rock ("Heartache Boulevard") to jazzy blues ("High Shelf Booze"). Jerry Miller's electric guitar spices up the texture of songs like "Where They Never Say Your Name," while Daniel Kellar's violin underpins the emotional depth of songs like "In the End." Jewell delivers a mellow version of Dylan's "Walking Down the Line" before closing with the sassy, upbeat "Blue Highway." Jewell's low-key, off-the-cuff strategy works well from beginning to end on Letters from Sinners & Strangers, delivering a fine contemporary folk album. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.
Once in a great while, you put on a CD by an artist you've never heard of before and time stops. The voice is new, yet timeless. The lyrics are original yet feel immediately familiar, lived-in, knowing. And the melodies - expertly performed by a first-rate band - carry an easy, memorable groove.This is the story of Eilen (rhymes with feelin') Jewell. It started after her 2005 self-released debut, Boundary Country, made its way into club-owners' hands, onto a handful of radio shows and around the press circles of Boston, her current home base. Reaction to Eilen's music was swift. Many compared her talents to those of Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch and June Carter Cash. The Boston Globe said, 'The slow organic sway of her ...
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