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Rating: Bologna 2020 (pre-Covid)
Gold record. 3 euro CD shelf. Practically other people's discards... let's see…
Cover art, at first glance, not extremely communicative.
A minimal watercolor, a squiggle of small spirals, an essential blue stroke on white.
Looking back, I'd say it largely corresponds to the musical content.
The information on the back refers to an alternative German production.
Groove Attack, a distributing label, among others, for Rough Trade... you can't go wrong…
Bologna 2020 (mid-Covid)
Living room. A disordered pile in a corner of the floor. Very at risk, from the way my wife has been looking at it lately, in order and cleanliness mode, maximum level.
Here they are again, perfect strangers.
Nothing on Debaser. A little bit more elsewhere. Present on YouTube, with an irrelevant number of plays.
The few notes online describe “...a lavish (?) amalgam of 60s Pop and Psychedelia, with a reference to Pink Floyd... the four guys (English?) form a group called Live Ambient Workshop in 2003 (where Ambient, for me, sounds almost like a threat). In 2005 they (wisely) rename themselves Motion Pictures and release their self-titled and only album...”
As musical references, I might also add Doors and, for some negligible Folk-Prog passages, Jethro Tull. No, Jethro has nothing to do with it... I had heard a flute...
Filtered vocals, keyboard reverberations, bass, and above all, prominent cymbals, moderately amplified guitars.
Long instrumental interludes, delicate and evanescent atmospheres.
I've only recently approached the genre, but to me, a couple of tracks are really remarkable (My Queen Your Dream is a splendor) and the rest is of good quality.
It gave me the impression of a heartfelt and sincere work.
A pleasant discovery, a breath of fresh and... cosmic... air... it was just what I needed in this period, forced to live in a closet. Clean though... never had a closet this clean.
Bologna 2020 (post-Covid)
Can't wait...
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