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Dakota Suite - Songs For A Barbed Wire Fence

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Dakota Suite
Songs For A Barbed Wire Fence

Label Glitterhouse Records
Erstveröffentlichung 01.01.2000
Format CD
Lieferzeit 1 – 3 Werktage
Preis 6,95 € (inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versand)
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In England praktisch zeitgleich mit unserer "Alone With Everybody" Singlescompilation erschienen, veröffentlichten wir das erste `richtige´ Album der Band aus Leeds etwas zeitversetzt im März `99.
Die Songs sind entstanden unter dem Einfluß von Tod und schweren Krankheiten im Umfeld des Songwriters Chris Hooson und dementsprechend traurig ist die Grundstimmung dieses Albums. Aufgenommen wurden die Stücke nur mit Analog-Equipment in Küchen, Wohnstuben und alten Kirchen, um normale Nebengeräusche wie Vögelgezwitscher Teil der Songs werden zu lassen.
Ein feines, sehr gefühlvolles Album, das trotz (oder gerade wegen) seiner Tristesse unglaublich anziehend ist.
"...Wir anderen genießen die Reize der dunkleren Jahreshälfte, finden ihre verborgene Schönheit und kosten sie aus. Dazu hören wir Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Tindersticks. Und Dakota Suite, eine Band aus Leeds, die von dort bereits seit gut zwei Jahren verschlüsselte 7"-Botschaften schickt zu elegischer, morbid-eleganter Musik... Exquisit hingetupfte Kadenzen, sparsam, langsam, intensiv... Die Musik ist von ruhiger, gefaßter Tristesse. Eindimensional ist sie nicht, nur spartanisch ausgestattet, obwohl die Instrumentierung doch exotischer kaum sein könnte: Flügelhorn, Glockenspiel, Bazouki, Violincello, Harmonium, Bambusflöte, syrische Oud." (Rolling Stone. 4 von 5 Sternen)
„Alarmierend traurig ist diese Kammermusik und doch zugleich von einer ätherischen Leichtigkeit. Selbstvergessen driften die subtil arrangierten Songs einem fernen, gültigen Nirgendwo entgegen. Ein Album wie ein langer Tagtraum. Eindrucksvoll, unwirklich, erschöpfend.“ (TIP Berlin)

Review

Full-length debut record by the Leeds-based band.
Chris Hooson, the singer and songwriter, in his own words: "I had spent 6 weeks in 1997 wanting to die. I had been through a lot of trauma with people close to me dying and also my mother had cancer and looked like she might not make it, I was writing material which reflected my pain at that time. Originally I wanted to call the record "bereavement and loss" as all the songs are about bereavement or loss. The record company were not happy with it as they thought it would sound too depressing so we changed it but now I wish that I had left it as it was. We recorded sporadically in many different places. I would be at Richards house and we would get an idea for a song or as in the case with December 8th 1980 I just felt that I wanted to record it so we put some mikes on the kitchen table and recorded as we felt like it. The ambient bird noises were just there in fact we cannot recall hearing them at the time. Often we rented an old Church and recorded bits and pieces in there too to capture noises and ambience, we tried to make the record as natural as we could. But this is the way it went along until we had finished all the songs. I still find it hard to listen to and play some of the songs as they represent such a difficult time for me emotionally. We wanted to make the recording as natural as possible so only used vintage amps and valve equipment all through the recording process.”
"...trying to pigeonhole them is not easy. You can tick off vague soundalikes but not influences. You can namecheck the two Nicks, Cave and Drake, elements of a resurgent Mercury Rev, a bit of Sparklehorse and Tindersticks, you could even lump them in with the current alt-country rise. Nothing, though, quite hits the mark." (bbm)

Tracklisting
1. Wintersong
2. Crippled World
3. Harley Reeves
4. One For the Shoe Shine Man
5. Divided
6. Ornamental
7. Leaving Home
8. Johannasong
9. Over
10. Everything Is Wrong
11. December 8th 1980
12. I Can Feel Your Disease
13. The Last Thing She Wanted
14. Loss
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