| Chesley, Alison / Helen Money |
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| Album: | Helen Money | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Chesley, Alison | Added: | May 2007 | |
| Label: | Cellobird Records | |||
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 17, 2008: | The Afterthought I'll See You In Hell | ||||
| Album Review |
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| David McWade Reviewed 2007-12-24 | ||
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This is some serious nasty orchestrated cello playing. I mean that as a sincere compliment, this could easily fit in with good metal and hardcore, Two Ton Boa, etc. Ms. Chesley has a master's in cello performance from Northwestern and has been recording for over a decade with other artists, for some time as a band named Verbow, she's also played in recording sessions for Bob Mould. This is excellent music. I recommend all of it. Really. But if you must know, I like 4,5,7 seriously though read the descriptions and pick one. 1 noisy and orchestrated 2 more sparse, pensive 3 noisy and orchestrated, climactic elements 4 romantic sounding somehow 5 beginning has that sort of Christina Carter ambience, but only a bit faster, it breaks out into something nice and intellectual, great 6 something elemental, makes me think of (Arvo) Part in his sort of tintinabulation 7 nice and pretty, moment of repose, woman shouting in the background, Current 93? 8 noisy 'rock' (?!), Two Ton Boa 9 tick tock, breaks out 10 very noisy and dramatic 11 low end noise rumble, long fade out, gets very soft at end. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Dreaming | 6. | Song For My Sister | |||
| 2. | Hum | 7. | Block | |||
| 3. | Jackson | 8. | Iggy | |||
| 4. | Birds | 9. | Mondo | |||
| 5. | I'll See You In Hell | 10. | Hendrix | |||
| 11. | ...In Love With The Whole Wide World | |||||