Joe Frawley
Tangerine
Joe Frawley Music 2007

01. Blue Arcana (Unabridged)
02. Tangerine, Part I: Cabin Fever
03. Tangerine, Part II: Death by Water
04. Tangerine, Part III: X + Y
05. Tangerine, Part IV: The House Was Full of Books
06. Tangerine, Part V: Coda
07. Exit Music

It's that time again we had a "record of the week"... Despite all shitty odds and intense competition, Joe Frawley - whom most likely you've not heard of before today - pulls it off with a mini-LP of music, words & everyday noises... Noone would know what to begin with, 'cause it has so many tasty sonic flavours in it, in so many different instances. There is nada boring in here. Period. Lots of work that went inside, but what's invigorating is how effortlessly it actually expands and drifts by. "The story of the evaporability of time", if you will. Phantom memories. A sense of bemused wonderment that washes over each track. Like someone taking all the pretty, simple things in life and rearranging them into a 28min gorgeous plunderphonic sound collage. Cinema for the ears, my frenz. Let's have more of this...

"Over 100 audio samples have been purposefully interwoven to create this sound composition. Drawing from a broad range of source material (including NASA transmissions, children's recordings, archival audio of literary figures, and my own piano improvisations), sound samples were gathered and recombined according to texture, tone, and semantic interplay. Tangerine is my first large scale sound collage. It is intended to be experienced in a single sitting, as would a short film. The overall intent of the work is to stimulate the imagination. I hope for the piece to be completed uniquely in the mind of each individual listener, by their own visualizations, and the ideas they bring to it". -J.F.

>> sspace / mmax (38mb) (d-_-b)
>> love it, buy it (Joe Frawley Music)

Many thanks to Daniel.