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| From | "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: Eric Matthews (and Richard Davies) |
| Date | Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:07:54 -0400 |
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Stewart, thanks for your POV. I actually liked the arrangements in TNBACLT
and based on what I heard in Cardinal, I sort of expected that. (Even though
I believe Eric Matthews had more control over the arrangements in Cardinal.)
However, many of the songs just did not grab me and I think the "oddball
song structures" had a lot to do with that. Based on what others have
posted and based on reviews at other sites, I think I would probably like
Telegraph, so I will seek it out. And since it has been quite a while since
I gave TNBACLT a spin, I'll give it a re-listen.
Who knows.....I may discover something cool that I dismissed before.
Mark E.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <flamingo@theworld.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>; <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Eric Matthews (and Richard Davies)
> At 09:03 AM 4/7/2004 -0400, Mark Eichelberger wrote:
> >On a related note, would anyone recommend Richard Davies' "Telegraph" and
> >"Barbarian"? I have his "There's Never Been a Crowd Like This", and
liked a
> >few tracks on it, but did not find it be a "must have". I was wondering
how
> >his other work compared.
>
> I don't know if I'm the one to ask, because I absolutely love and adore
> THERE'S NEVER BEEN A CROWD LIKE THIS, but I find TELEGRAPH and BARBARIANS
> to be a step down from that record. On the other hand, however, the
things
> I loved about CROWD were the oddball song structures and the orchestral
> arrangements: the two follow-ups are much more "normal" records. If the
> problem is that CROWD is too weird for you, you might like the later
> records more. Like Steven, however, I think TELEGRAPH is a better record
> than BARBARIANS.
>
> You might also try his earlier records with the Moles: INSTINCT is
probably
> one of the odder records of the '90s (supposedly, Davies went into the
> studio and improvised all of the songs at the piano in one sitting, then
> added other instruments to the vocal and piano tracks, and the songs are
> filled with these weird sonic holes and unresolved chord patterns) and
very
> hard to get into even for fans, but UNTUNE THE SKY and the self-titled
> double-EP (both included on a Flydaddy reissue from 1999 that's now pretty
> hard to come by) are terrific psych-pop. "What's the New Mary Jane?"
> remains my favorite Richard Davies song of all time. There was a two-disc
> Moles reissue last year that included a disc of unreleased demos and the
> like, but I'd look for the Flydaddy record first.
>
> The press release for that Moles reissue said that Davies had taken a long
> break from writing and recording after Flydaddy went under, but that he's
> recently been working on new material again.
>
> S
>
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