
Sunday, March 26, 2006
The Durutti Column - Keep Breathing (2006)
Written and played almost entirely by Vini Rielly, the album is built out of
ideas generated over the last year and was inspired by African hip hop, traditional Jewish music (Kletzer) and 1930's piano music by Art Tatum. The 12 tracks were created over 3 months in a room 'not much bigger than a broom cupboard' using only one microphone and whatever time and equipment Reilly and the album's programmer Ben Roberts had spare. This inventiveness adds to the richness of Reilly's amazing 'honey wrapped in sandpaper' guitar playing. The gorgeous song 'Maggie' samples a school choir he heard on the BBC 14 years ago, while other tracks such as the defiant 7 minute long love song, 'Let Me Tell You Something' are just as powerful and reflective, showing the positive frame of mind Vini was in when making the record. The new album is more polished and less haphazard than his previous efforts and Durutti Column have also committed to touring it extensively in 2006, with a live band consisting of Kier Stewart who has produced The Fall, Badly Drawn Boy and Elbow, the now legendary Bruce Mitchell on drums and John Metcalf on viola.

Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts of the Week
-
History They originally called themselves The Reactionaries , with additional band member and singer Martin Tamburovich. According to Watt, ...
-
Super Furry Animals were one of the first post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres, but, i don't und...
-
Flashback Playlist I enter to this high street shop and it starts playing. No it is not actually "Obsessions" that is playing. It...
-
Women and Children First is the third album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). It basically conti...
-
Modern Music Album Review: One of my fav. garage rock band is The walkmen.When i listened their album Everyone Who... they attracted my atte...
-
The MM Featured Artist You never miss her beautiful voice and lovely lips. I've seen comments about Lana Del Rey is being compared ...
-
Modern Music Recommends The producer and former Bad Seeds member(also formerly of Magazine ) returns with his first solo disc in four years...
1 COMMENTS:
aah , you are my hero , i was the only one in the group that digged durutti , so vague so stoned.
darn good ,to bad the link is the new album,, but he its modern music..
Post a Comment