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Title: The Sea Horse Limbo
Release date: 31 October, 2006
Record label: Intr-Version
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Official website: aMute
Buy at: Amazon
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Tracklisting
1. Why Do I Run Seasons So Fast
2. The Floating Boat
3. Hit My Country
4. Disco Flags Are All Around You
5. When Cyclic Brussels Gave Up, It Turned Me On
6. Oh! Le Zeppelin
7. Sea Horse Limbo
8. (H)and in the Sand
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In the two years since the release of his spectacular début, A Hundred Dry Trees, Brussels based Jérôme Deuson (aka aMute) has toured the width and breadth of Europe several times, started his own superb label, Stilll, and created a new body of work that is as original as it is beautiful.
The Sea Horse Limbo sees aMute expanding his blend of guitars and glitches to include drums (Stéphane Fedèle), cello (Jean-Paul Dessy of the world renowned contemporary music ensemble, Musiques Nouvelles), and voice (Deuson, Jenna Robertson of Avia Gardner, and others). It is a lush and epic work that is as moving as it is challenging.
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At times as sprawling and spacy as Do Make Say Think, at others dense and textured like the work of Tim Hecker or Fennesz… One can note a confluence of styles without putting one’s finger on The Horse Limbo’s fragile beauty and sometimes almost abrasive energy.
A record to be listened to with the volume turned up as loud as the neighbours will allow and with sun shining on your closed eyelids.
Biography
In june 2004, aMute released "A hundred dry trees" on the Canadian label Intr.Version. He also participated in many compilations and created another band called Arden which released an album, Conceal, on Stilll in 2005. They just finished recording their new album which is due to 2007.
The Sea Horse Limbo, aMute's new album is now out (from mid october 2006) on Intr-Version Records!
In the two years since the release of his spectacular début, A Hundred Dry Trees, Brussels based Jérôme Deuson (aka aMute) has toured the width and breadth of Europe several times, started his own superb label, Stilll, and created a new body of work that is as original as it is beautiful. The Sea Horse Limbo sees aMute expanding his blend of guitars and glitches to include drums (Stéphane Fedèle), cello (Jean-Paul Dessy of the world renowned contemporary music ensemble, Musiques Nouvelles), and voice (Deuson, Jenna Robertson of Avia Gardner, and others). Deuson..s new work breaks with the frosty, crystalline quality of A Hundred Dry Trees, coming up with a collection that is luminous and sun-baked. It is a lush and epic work that is as moving as it is challenging. A record to be listened to with the volume turned up as loud as the neighbours will allow and with sun shining on your closed eyelids.
What they Say...
"a universe that easily reminds us of bands like Labradford or Pan American" - Les Introckuptibles.
"Imagine the quieter parts of Explosions In The Sky or Tarentel being extracted and ultimately completely worked over by Tim Hecker and you're getting somewhere close". - Almost Cool.
The frosty ambiance, of scattered windchimes and stuttering drones, carries these tracks into the oblivion they require; however, Deuson's playing maintains a directness that attaches a cinematic feel throughout. - Brainwashed.
"a more focused listen brings its subtleties into sharper relief, and one then realizes just how skillfully Deuson modulates its transitions from relative calm to raw intensity and back. While the sensuousness of the recording's sounds gives it an immediate visceral appeal, it's the manner by which it coheres into a compositional whole that impresses most of all" - Textura
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