F#A# |  | Artist: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Label: Kranky
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 18.99
Buy New: CDN$ 10.14
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Seller: Streetlight_Records_USA
Sales Rank: 17,425
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 796441802722
EAN: 0796441802722
ASIN: B000007T2Z
Release Date: July 2, 1999
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| • | The Dead Flag Bues - Godspeed You Black Emperor | | • | East Hastings - Godspeed You Black Emperor | | • | Providence - Godspeed You Black Emperor |
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Product Description
'The Dead Flag Blues' (16:27)
1.1 The Dead Flag Blues (Intro) 6:40
1.2 Slow Moving Trains 3:30
1.3 The Cowboy... 4:19
1.4 (;outro)... 1:59
'East Hastings' (17:58)
2.1 "...Nothing's Alrite In Our Life"/Dead Flag Blues (Reprise) 2:17
2.2 The Sad Mafioso... 10:01
2.3 Drugs In Tokyo/Black Helicopter 5:40
'Providence' (21:26)
3.1 Divorce&Fever... 2:45
3.2 Dead Metheny... 8:15
3.3 Kicking Horse On Brokenhill 5:40
3.4 String Loop Manufactured During Downpour... 4:46
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3.5 Silence 3:39
3.6 J.L.H. Outro 4:48
From Amazon.co.uk
It's hard to imagine this disc coming out of Montreal or, really, any urban habitat. The post-rock instrumentals on f#a#(infinity symbol), distantly related to the sounds made by the Australian band Dirty Three, serve as walking music for a loner hoping to hitch a ride in the middle of the Arizona desert and dealing with the inevitability of another night in coyote territory. Godspeed's swelling array of guitars, bagpipes, cellos, violins, trumpets, and drums is riveted together with an understated hope that is emotionally clutching, often devastating. This core of heavy Midwestern stoicism, saturated with waves of strings, hardcore interludes, and ripples of Morricone guitar, leaves listeners with the understanding that there is no escape from the badlands that surround and permeate us. --Michael Woodring
From Amazon.com
On first listen, Montreal collective Godspeed You Black Emperor sounds familiar, like sonic-landscape architects the Dirty Three. But pay closer attention to this debut full-length and you'll find something much more compelling: G.Y.B.E. mix found sounds, voices, lilting string sections, and musique concrète into structures that tell a story. With each listen, a new plot twist is unraveled, a new movie sample identified--you start to listen closely with headphones to pick up new subtleties you couldn't hear previously. Three tracks, a bit over an hour, of great music that defies categorization. --Jason Verlinde
Amazon.ca
Septième album solo de Michel Rivard, Le Goût de l'eau… et Autres Chansons naïves, paru en 1992, séduit rapidement avec ses ritournelles enjôleuses. L'enfant chéri de la chanson québécoise délaisse les synthétiseurs dUn trou dans les nuages pour revenir à ses premières amours : les guitares acoustiques. Dans les mains agiles de Rick Hayworth, complice de toujours, elles côtoient l'autoharpe, la mandoline et la guitare hawaïenne. Le résultat n'est pas pour autant exotique : on a affaire à 11 chansons bien ficelées, à des musiques à la fois simples et denses qui savent soutenir les textes intelligents de Rivard. Le ton se fait grave dans "L'Oubli", brillant et émouvant hommage au cinéaste québécois Claude Jutra : "Il notait tout dans un carnet/Le nom des gens l'odeur des choses/Et quand le vent virait morose/Pour se souvenir il relisait/Mais il voyait entre les lignes grandir le trou blanc de l'oubli". Qu'il parle de l'enfance ("La Lune d'automne", "Tu peux dormir", "Bille de verre") ou des réflexions d'un chien sur la plage ("Sourire de chien"), Michel Rivard nous sert un album rempli de charme et d'humour qui fait la part belle à la nostalgie. À écouter la fenêtre ouverte, la tête dans les souvenirs d'enfance. --Yannick Duguay
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