Shipwrecks & Russian Roulette
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Buy It (This is an officially-sold CD-R and it is not, nor
ever has been available as a factory pressed or retail CD)
Download
1. Slowclub
2. dne eht ton
3. buddhist bell
4. In bed with you
5. the rain song
6. tide
7. wheat fields
8. der verlovene
9. part II
10. the martyr
Shipwrecks & Russian Roulette is a 30 minute haze of stripped down bluesy jazz by musician and photographer Miranda Lehman. The whole album seems to have been recorded using out of date production methods which add tremendously to the overall feel of the album. Background noises creak and crackle whilst the uncomfortably close sounds of rain add an eerie atmosphere to the experience. It's the sort of music you can picture seeing in a beaten down bar on a rainy night, amidst a haze of alcohol and smoke. A lot of Shipwrecks & Russian Roulette manages to maintain a balance of creepy and charming at the same time, maintaining a blues-esque whistfulness and forlorn beauty. Vocals are present but are sparse throughout, and give a layered density to what can at times be a contrastingly simple record.
Everything is done at it's own pace. The piano isn't rushed in order to get to the point of the song, and vocals aren't there to make you ponder the greater mysteries of life (most of it is aahs and oohs). Instead this is a record that takes it's time, something delightfully fresh and important in times where we tend to be quite intense, and where apparently giving 100% isn't good enough anymore. As some advert said one time......what's the rush?
It's a record that might not be everyones cup of tea for precisely that reason, there aren't any shamelessly trendy remixes and it's not likely to get the party going. Instead it's one that you should kick back and relax to and let unwind, or even just pull the duvet over yourself a wee bit more and relax to. I was pleasantly suprised at discovering this having not heard of Korouva before, and it's a wonderful ambient album. I know it's not perfect, and I don't want to have to slap a score on it and be done with it. We should all of us be able to take time out and spend too much time listening to an album every now and then, and all the better if it isn't an NME flavour of the month. I highly reccomend this and would urge anyone who feels like getting lost in an album to give this a try.
One for rainy nights, or very early mornings.
ever has been available as a factory pressed or retail CD)
Download
1. Slowclub
2. dne eht ton
3. buddhist bell
4. In bed with you
5. the rain song
6. tide
7. wheat fields
8. der verlovene
9. part II
10. the martyr
Shipwrecks & Russian Roulette is a 30 minute haze of stripped down bluesy jazz by musician and photographer Miranda Lehman. The whole album seems to have been recorded using out of date production methods which add tremendously to the overall feel of the album. Background noises creak and crackle whilst the uncomfortably close sounds of rain add an eerie atmosphere to the experience. It's the sort of music you can picture seeing in a beaten down bar on a rainy night, amidst a haze of alcohol and smoke. A lot of Shipwrecks & Russian Roulette manages to maintain a balance of creepy and charming at the same time, maintaining a blues-esque whistfulness and forlorn beauty. Vocals are present but are sparse throughout, and give a layered density to what can at times be a contrastingly simple record.
Everything is done at it's own pace. The piano isn't rushed in order to get to the point of the song, and vocals aren't there to make you ponder the greater mysteries of life (most of it is aahs and oohs). Instead this is a record that takes it's time, something delightfully fresh and important in times where we tend to be quite intense, and where apparently giving 100% isn't good enough anymore. As some advert said one time......what's the rush?
It's a record that might not be everyones cup of tea for precisely that reason, there aren't any shamelessly trendy remixes and it's not likely to get the party going. Instead it's one that you should kick back and relax to and let unwind, or even just pull the duvet over yourself a wee bit more and relax to. I was pleasantly suprised at discovering this having not heard of Korouva before, and it's a wonderful ambient album. I know it's not perfect, and I don't want to have to slap a score on it and be done with it. We should all of us be able to take time out and spend too much time listening to an album every now and then, and all the better if it isn't an NME flavour of the month. I highly reccomend this and would urge anyone who feels like getting lost in an album to give this a try.
One for rainy nights, or very early mornings.
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