Volume 1 CD music In the August of 2000, Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel, Circulatory System) traveled to Bulgaria. Volume 1 music CDs There, he attended a local music festival and documented some of the music performed on a tape deck. Who he recorded, where, and what, are all absent from the disc's documentation. Like David Baker's magical Pitamaha record, Mangum's work is an unscholarly approach to an otherworldly music. There are no explanations of contextualizations given. Even the material is all blended together onto one track. The music is allowed to speak for itself -- and, generally, it does. One gets a taste of, perhaps, a half-dozen different performers, all utterly mysterious sounding. This is not an album intended for students of world music or even eastern European culture. Orange Twin Field Works, Vol. 1 celebrates the beauty of the sound as an objectively beautiful thing. Listening on headphones, one is transported, not for any psychedelic sound manipulation, but because he is literally hearing the sounds of an utterly foreign world. ~ Jesse Jarnow
Track Listing of songs: New Record, The; Then He Kissed Me; I Don't Care; Thinkin' of the U.S.A.; Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart; Automatic Lover; Action Time Vision; Murder of Liddle Towers, The; C.I.D.; Police Car; True Confessions; Vegetarian; Totally Wired; Kill the Poor; Exploited Barmy Army; So What; 17 Years of Hell; Stab the Judge; Run Like Hell; Smash the Discos; Warriors; Dozen Girls; Summer of '81; Megalomania; Vengeance; You'll Never Know;
Volume 1 songs. Recording information: Farias Production Studios; The Machine Shop; Threshold Studios.
Photographers: Daniel McBride; Kathy Christensen.
Personnel: Andrew Dijorio (vocals); Thomas Williams (guitar); Dan Bourke (drums).
Audio Mixer: Will Putney.
Volume 1 music CDs. Liner Note Author: William Hogeland. Track Listing of songs: Limehouse Blues; Peg O' My Heart; Java Jive; Dry Bones; There's a Fellow Waiting In Poughkeepsie; Umbrella Man, The; Blues In the Night; Rockin' In Rhythm; Cruising Down the River; Bird Song At Eventide; It Might As Well Be Spring; Paper Doll; Lili Marlene; Chinatown, My Chinatown; Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogey Man; Let the People Sing; I'm Making Believe; I Get Along Without ...
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