| Rowland, Jess / Scenes From The Silent Revolution |
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| Album: | Scenes From The Silent Revolution | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Rowland, Jess | Added: | Dec 2005 | |
| Label: | Pax Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-03-26 | Pull Date: | 2006-05-28 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 23 | Apr 9 | Apr 2 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 16, 2011: | lost and found Happy Flowers | 4. | Apr 21, 2006: | The National Congress Of Vaselines Happy Flowers | |
| 2. | Nov 30, 2007: | Memory Select Self-Adhesive Office Cubes | 5. | Apr 06, 2006: | The National Library Of Vaselines Bird Signs | |
| 3. | Aug 17, 2006: | Cognitive Overload Happy Flowers | 6. | Mar 29, 2006: | Mr. S's Wild Ride Invisible / Anymore |
| Album Review |
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| Clutch Newsome Reviewed 2006-03-20 | ||
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Rowland, Jess Scenes From The Silent Revolution Pax Recordings Artsy-fartsy. But mostly farts. Ironic sounds, art noise/fuzz, synth beats, to the hippy (pink floyd, folk, & chanting). The tracks vary widely, so see below. Compare to My Country Of Illusion? Anti-corporate message only makes itself apparent on a couple tracks. 10 features "Let The Eagle Soar" by John Ashcroft. FCC clean. *1 - (4:17) Alto fem vox. intermittently singing about corporations. Casio. Plodding, 70s, Pink Floydish beat. **2 - (4:32) Instrumental. Synth rumbles and tinkles, fuzzy hints of d-n-b. Surprisingly good in a disturbing way. 3 - (4:18) Bare piano chords joined by modem glitch. 1/2way, psychedelic singing. *4 - (5:45) Found sounds, samples. Cheesy strings. Spanish talking? A motor starting? A lame beat enters. 1/2way changes to drum beat over full orchestral sample, and Rowland chanting nonsense?, then low bass rumble and jazzier drum. 5 - (3:30) Electronic plunking. Rhodes chords. Vocal tones. Dissonant & wandering. *6 - (1:34) Aeroplane radio transmission over rhodes cluster. Fuzz. *7 - (3:30) Rhodes, jazz drums, and Rowland telling a story about corporations sponsoring the homeless to advertise...then the Z-trons attack. last 50 sec. instr. *8 - (4:44) Lo-fi hippie folk guitar and singing. Then synth beat (incongruously) enters. Last 40 sec. reprise solo guitar & vox. **9 - (4:45) Modern/Romantic tumble of piano. Sawed bass and humming in chantlike fashion. Repeated and trippy. Fuzz/noise, faint commercial. **10 - (5:46) Sample 80's patriotic torch singing. . harsh beat. And then...."LET THE EAGLE SOAR", the great John Ashcroft rips it. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Om | 6. | Valis Interlude | |||
| 2. | Bird Signs | 7. | Signs | |||
| 3. | Invisible / Anymore | 8. | Vendicam | |||
| 4. | I Was Only Dreaming | 9. | Happy Flowers | |||
| 5. | Self-Adhesive Office Cubes | 10. | Ashcroft Vs. The Space Librarians |