Fairborn Music / Fairbornification
Album: Fairbornification   Collection:General
Artist:Fairborn Music   Added:May 2020
Label:Self-Release  

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 02, 2020: Stranded at Settembrini's
Reading the Book 'ransoming Pagan Babies' on the Porch and Hearing a Hit...

Album Review
DJ Away
Reviewed 2020-05-13
KZSU-affiliated experimental/improv project. (The two people who made this album were the DJs I trained with when I joined KZSU in 2012.) Fun, loose, colorful, noisy at times but not aggressive. There's a pastoral quality to these recordings. I imagine them soundtracking some strange animated TV show aired in the 80s and rebroadcast late at night. Favorites: 2, 3, 7, 8. No FCCs.

1. (14:29)—Trippy grainy monotron siren sounds. Psychedelic chugging Durutti Column guitar.
2. *(1:42)—Sort of upbeat and wistful, major key guitar and keys.
3. *(4:00)—Distant percussion with a 90s post-rock/shoegaze feel, more gentle guitars. Whooshing sounds.
4. (5:36)—The Springsteen impersonation on this one is off the hook.
5. (5:52)—Plinking piano, surfy guitar. Cool woozy guitar near the end.
6. (3:54)—More Durutti Column zones, but with some ominous synth bass. Intense slow drumming.
7. *(2:06)—New age textures with distant drumming. Pretty and free-flowing.
8. *(11:25)—Very slow, moody, bluesy, with space noises. This kinda reminds me of Miles Davis's 30-minute track "He Loved Him Madly." The full track title doesn't fit in ZK, but it's "reading the book 'Ransoming Pagan Babies' on the porch and hearing a hit and run in sunny Minneapolis, MN ("that's why we don't play in the street")".

Track Listing
1. Mr. Strat / Monotron Bong / I Hope I Did Not Give Kevin Shields the Coronavirus   5. Baptized by the St Paul Saints
2. Getting a Girl Friend   6. Eating Breakfast in a Sunn O))) Hoodie
3. Driving in a Tow Truck Looking for Wrecks   7. Playing the Flute in My Spare Time
4. Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen Cover)   8. Reading the Book 'ransoming Pagan Babies' on the Porch and Hearing a Hit...