Музыка и песни Califone / Califone на LP

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Stitches", the new album from CALIFONE, touches on all permutable definitions of the word- its episodes of discomfort and healing rendered with exquisite beauty and craftsmanship. The listener moves through a landscape of Old Testament blood and guts, spaghetti Western deserts and Southwestern horizons, zeroing in on emotions and images that cannot be glanced over. In some regards, "Stitches harks back to those earliest days of CALIFONE, yet the ultimate outcome sounds like the work of an artist reborn. Rutili says. "Instead of writing from my balls and brain, this time I wrote from the nerves, skin, and heart Style: Independent

In an underground music landscape where 140 characters equals journalism and lone MP3s propel bands to momentary internet stardom, bands are here today and gone tomorrow. Califone is a band that defies this blueprint. Their albums are full of layers and t Style: Independent

gatefold jacket with all new artwork Side D contains 4 previously unreleased songs Includes code for digital download of the entire record This double LP is an expanded edition of a CD of the same name. That disc-originally issued by Glitterhouse in 2000-collected Califone's first two EPs (on Perishable and Road Cone), plus two new songs. Four more songs - unreleased outtakes from the final Red Red Meat recording sessions-have been added here, to this new and expanded version. It's all you need when it comes to the genesis of this well-regarded Chicago-based group. Califone started as the solo project of singer/ guitarist Tim Rutili in the late 1990s, after the dissolution of his band Red Red Meat. Soon enough, Red Red Meat members Ben Massarella and Tim Hurley joined the group, who recorded with RRM's Brian Deck as well as at their own space and with Warren Defever in Livonia, MI. These songs appear to fall apart and come back together again while you are listening to them. The first song on their first EP, the sleepwalking "On The Steeple W/ The Shakes (XMas Tigers)," sounds like a blues-rock anthem that got dosed at the Christmas party. Rutili says that the song was "made with a drum machine that I stole from my four-year-old son and a brown air organ from the thrift store. We were trying to make our own version of dub music." Naturally it is followed immediately by a gorgeous, largely acoustic folk-pop number, "Silvermine Pictures." Rutili and company were superb at giving you what you didn't expect. Remember, Sub Pop had expected RRM to be the next Pearl Jam based on the success of their first record for them. and their last album was a Christmas-themed banjo-prog record released in late February of 1997. Record Label: Jealous Butcher Style: Alternative

Record Label: Thrill Jockey Style: Independent