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Fri 16th Mean Fiddler presents SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE + The Week That Was
£7 via WeGotTickets, In April 2007, Sunderland trio Field Music (David Brewis, Peter Brewis and Andrew Moore) announced in a round-a-bout way that they were clearing their diary of all band activity in the hope that a change of situation and expectation might help them to become as productive as they'd always hoped they would be. The first fruits of this new creative dawn is David Brewis's School of Language. Primarily recorded by David alone and consciously susceptible to the cut-and-paste, multi-tasking tangents induced by laptop recording, these constructions are resolutely un-band-like, veering between the intricate and unplayable and the solitary and unadorned, their cohesion stemming from an embrace of all that is most obtuse and personal. Sea From Shore is bookended by the quartet of 'Rockist' tracks, a series of daydreams on words, their meanings and the decisions which follow from them, all underpinned by a collection of incessant looped voices. The album can, in some ways, be seen as a companion piece to Field Music's Tones of Town but where that record was preoccupied with the choices resulting from questions of time and place, here time is tied to people - often because of their absence, but at other times because their closeness is what rejuvenates us. The album Sea From Shore out now in the UK and Ireland on 4 Feb 2008 on Memphis Industries (and in the USA and Continental Europe on Thrill Jockey). |
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