Dead Hollywood Stars - Junctions (2002), WavPack - CUE, LOG, Covers
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Dead Hollywood Stars - Junctions
Артист: Dead Hollywood Stars
Альбом: Junctions, 2002
Издатель: Hymen / ¥724
Жанр: Abstract, IDM, Americana, Experimental
Формат файла: WavPack (playable ZIP) - CUE, LOG, Covers embedded
Ссылка: CD 9 clicks
Нахождение: eDonkey/Kademlia
Примечание: To extract CUE, LOG and/or covers from this file, open it with WinZIP, WinRAR, or 7-Zip. For playback in separate tracks, open it in foobar2000.

TRACKLIST
 1. Last Train To Aldebaran. . . .5:34
 2. The Pure Voice . . . . . . . .3:03
 3. Back From Exile. . . . . . . .3:43
 4. Through The Cane Fields. . . .2:23
 5. Suburban Mystery . . . . . . .3:20
 6. In The Abbey Of The Psalms . .4:11
 7. Akiko's Diary. . . . . . . . .1:29
 8. A Cold Spot. . . . . . . . . .3:13
 9. Triangulating The Daemon . . .6:27
10. Stardust . . . . . . . . . . .3:35
11. Gunslinger . . . . . . . . . .3:26
12. Down To Zero . . . . . . . . .3:19
13. Singapore Sling. . . . . . . .3:11
14. The Crying Indian. . . . . . .4:09
15. Noctuary . . . . . . . . . . .5:28
16. Western Glamor . . . . . . . .1:04

Dead Hollywood Stars are a trio consisting of John Sellekaers, C-drik and Hervé Thomas, three artists who have been exploring various aspects of electronic and post-industrial sound via numerous projects over the past few years. Together, seperately and in collaboration with others, they have recorded under the names Xingu Hill, Ammo, Ambre, Moonsanto, Torsion and more, with releases on many labels including KK/Nova Zembla, Hymen/Ant-Zen, Hushush, Flyco, Gun Music, Zoth Ommog and Foton.
As for what they sound like - well, it's not really dance music, but you can dance to their charged downtempo rhythms. It's not purely listening music, but few things will engage your ears and mind like their ambience-washed sound.
They have dipped into the sounds of two seemingly disparate genres - head-nodding downtempo and American roots music - to produce a hybrid that could be best described as 'desert ambient'. Smooth beats and shimmering soundscapes are overlayed with ghostly blues and country guitar riffs, evoking images of the wild west gone space-age sci-fi. Imagine Ry Cooder guesting on the mellower tracks from Moby's Play, only much better (and less Starbucks-friendly), and you'll have some idea on sonic landscape that the Dead Hollywood Stars call home.

Junctions employs found sound as signifier in the best filmic tradition: cicadas, threatening drones, Bollywood strings, Cooder-esque guitar drenched in reverb implying great (American) distances, a horse neighing, gritty noises, and so on. There's lots of things going on, but the detail isn't fussy at all, just necessary to the setting of a particular scene.
Synthetic sounds associated with IDM or D'n'B (bass waves, washes) are placed in a different context and the consequent mix of acoustic and synthetic is highly enjoyable. Rhythm tracks are used sparingly, and when they are the template is electronica-derived.
The sonic world of Junctions is luxurious, like a book whose first page you've just read and you know you're going to enjoy the rest of. Lavishness is a large part what this music seems to be about: in the same way you'd enjoy savouring a Thali, here the constituent parts await your delectation, adding up to a satisfying whole, a nice full belly.
Reference points? John Zorn's Spillane, FSOL's Lifeforms, Fourtet's first album, Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas. New invisible soundtracks are emerging constantly -this is one of the (much) better ones.

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