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Jazz-oriented experimental music from the Chicago post-rock crowd, with HiM constant Doug Scharin aided by guitarist Jeff Parker (from Tortoise and Isotope 217) and other musicians associated with outfits such as Rex and Chicago Underground Duo. The drowsy but not quite narcotic, dreamscapes of these instrumentals owe much to Jon Hassell (particularly in the woozy and wobbly effects/treatments) and the early electric fusion of Miles Davis. Unlike its forebears, HIM uses '90s loops and edits, as well as dub and hip-hop rhythms (as on "Trace Elements"). As with much of Hassell's work, the atmosphere is somewhat akin to traveling through an electric underwater jungle. ~ Richie Unterberger
Personnel: Julie Liu (violin); Martin Perna (alto saxophone); Rob Mazurek (cornet); Doug Scharin (drums, percussion, sampler).
Audio Mixer: Doug Scharin.
Arranger: Doug Scharin.
Him includes: Doug Scharin.
Additional personnel: Jeff Parker, Bundy Brown, Julie Liu, Rob Mazurek.
Alternative Press (2/00, pp.83-4) - 4 out of 5 - "...another chameleon-like shift in styles....[Doug] Scharin explores jazz and funk themes while retaining his dub sensibilities....continuing [his] unbroken string of successes."
Magnet (1-2/00, p.69) - "...[Doug Scharin's] most dub-inflected fantasies....sounding more than a bit like Miles Davis' ambient/jazz-fusion excursions of the mid '70s....extremely stimulating..." Sworn Eyes Music | List Price | $13.98 (You save $2.89) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Alternative, Post Rock, Experimental (Noise), Enhanced CD | | Label | Perishable | | Orig Year | 1999 | | All Time Sales Rank |  126291  | | CD Universe Part number | 1020896 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 30, 1999 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Engineer | Brian Deck | | Personnel | Martin Perna - alto saxophone
Doug Scharin - drums, percussion, sampler
Also: Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Julie Liu, Bundy Brown |
H I M Sworn Eyes Songs | 1. | Verdict of Science, A |
| 2. | Of the Periphery |
| 3. | Trace Elements |
| 4. | Scorn Nothing |
| 5. | Sworn Eyes |
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STRANGE TIMES includes Peel Session tracks recorded for the BBC.
As the Chameleons' most fully realized album, STRANGE TIMES deftly combines the urgency of SCRIPT OF THE BRIDGE with the atmosphere of WHAT DOES ANYTHING MEAN? BASICALLY. Beginning with the aggressive, riff-heavy "Mad Jack," this 1986 record careens through a wide range of moods, evoking sadness (the spare, poignant "Tears"), existential malaise (the mini-epic "Souls in Isolation"), and pleasant nostalgia (the upbeat ode to youth "Childhood").
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At once dimly settled and quietly driving, Tortoise's second album is afloat in contradictions. The group's "songs," all instrumental, are entirely about moods--marrying open-ended, dub-infected grooves with delays and other studio effects, pouring on vibraphone and marimbas, and electronically discombobulating the rhythms to create a sort of chill-out music birthed at the bottom of the ocean. But even their calmest modes offer a propulsiveness missing from much atmospheric music. Call it beat-wise ambient, if you must.
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This is a remastered and augmented edition of SLANTED AND ENCHANTED featuring the original album, the WATERY DOMESTIC EP, studio outtakes, two John Peel radio sessions from 1992, and a live recording from Brixton Academy.
Principally recorded at Louder Than You Think, Stockton, California; South Makepeace, Brooklyn, New York and Brixton Academy, London, England between December 1990 and December 1992. Includes liner notes by Stephen Malkmus.
By the time SLANTED & ENCHANTED was released in 1992, Pavement had reached mythical status among indie-rock lovers. The hype had been generated by three masterful vinyl-only releases: SLAY TRACKS (7" EP), DEMOLITION PLOT J7 (7" EP) and PERFECT SOUND FOREVER (10" EP). The dissonant, often beautiful mix of noise and melody on these recordings reaches its apotheosis on SLANTED & ENCHANTED--an album that simultaneously recalls the haunted darkness of The Velvet Underground and the sheer garage pop of the Modern Lovers. SLANTED & ENCHANTED exists from moment to moment, establishing ideas even as it breaks them down, deifying its influences even as it escapes them, becoming more exciting the more you hear it. It is, in short, ...
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It seems strange to see the output of Mickie Most's RAK label finally being taken seriously by record labels as well as collectors, 30-plus-years after the imprint established itself as the epitome of disposable pop tunes. Yet EMI's ongoing A's, B's & Rarities series offers nothing less than the same thorough treatment that any other, more hallowed, label could expect. The format is essentially the same throughout: a gathering up of every RAK single (A-sides and B-sides) released by a given band, with the remainder of the CD filled with choice outtakes and oddities. Sadly, whereas other entries in this series -- Mud, Arrows, CCS, Hot Chocolate, Suzi Quatro -- can effortlessly address that criteria, Pilot really should have been saved for some future "best-of the rest of" set. The fact is, despite the four U.K. hits they racked up in a year (including the Top Ten "Magic" and the chart-topping "January") they really weren't that great a band, the missing link between Smokie and 10cc, with a shot of Fox thrown ...
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