Chef Menteur / We Await Silent Tristero's Emp
Album: We Await Silent Tristero's Emp   Collection:General
Artist:Chef Menteur   Added:Aug 2005
Label:Backporch Revolution  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-08-28 Pull Date: 2005-10-30
Week Ending: Sep 25 Sep 18 Sep 11 Sep 4
Airplays: 2 2 1 5

Recent Airplay
1. Aug 27, 2014: maximum entropy
Lo
4. Sep 23, 2005: Memory Select
Pointu Ii
2. May 24, 2007: Fiction Romance
W.A.S.T.E.
5. Sep 20, 2005: lick my moody guitar show
Pointu Ii
3. Mar 29, 2007: Fiction Romance
Charlie Dont Surf
6. Sep 16, 2005: Distraction-Limited
Pointu

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2005-08-19
Instrumental ambient/space-rock, experimental soundscapes. "Low-fi" in that its recorded in a home studio usinga roomful of various much loved sound sources, but it doesn’t scream out “low fi” really at all. Trippy heady stuff, most songs long, meandering. Pass the bong. For fans of Biota, Flying Saucer Attack, Bethany Curve, Bowery Electric, 7% Solution, American Analog Set, early Stereolab.

1) slow to develop space rock, upbeat, ambient prettiness and layers of trippiness, Flying Saucer Attack comes to mind, 2) slower more chill, early Stereolab comes to mind
3) a nice idea but meanders around a sparse melody and doesnt do anything
4) ambience
5) strummy piece
6) mix of electronics, some electro acoustics and found sound field records, rhythmic
7) mellow, loopy dark, cool
8) simple theme, melody, looped and echoed, low fi
9) very ambient, guitar based, almost Eno'esque for first 4-5 minutes then builds, develops more amplitude, density
10)lush soundscapes, multi-Instrumental, dramatic
11) trippy intro leads into simple mindful beat with organ, layers of noise and space, pretty cool if you don’t mind that it doesn’t really go anywhere (but must we always go “somewhere”?)
12) really beautiful lush orchestral drone, very long (17min), hypnotic, careful very long fade out, with a good 45-60 seconds of dead air at end (caution!)

Track Listing
1. Europa   7. Psuedologia Fantastica
2. Pointu   8. Maida Vale
3. Paysans De La Mer   9. Caverns of the White Widow
4. Matiasma   10. Ad Astra Per Despera
5. Charlie Dont Surf   11. Pointu Ii
6. W.A.S.T.E.   12. Lo