| Vervloesem, Pierre / Not Even Close |
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| Album: | Not Even Close | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Vervloesem, Pierre | Added: | 11/2008 | |
| Label: | Off | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-01-11 | Pull Date: | 2009-03-15 |
| Week Ending: | 8 Mar | 1 Mar | 22 Feb | 15 Feb | 8 Feb | 1 Feb | 25 Jan | 18 Jan |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 12, 2011: | Music Casserole The Bach Formula | 4. | Feb 27, 2009: | Memory Select, sfSound edition: Le Quan Ninh & Michel Doneda 400 Personnes | |
| 2. | Mar 07, 2009: | Music Casserole Burba Bubba | 5. | Feb 24, 2009: | Reelin' in the Years The Bach Formula | |
| 3. | Mar 06, 2009: | Memory Select Roaccutane | 6. | Feb 21, 2009: | Music Casserole 400 Personnes |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2009-01-03 | ||
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Oh my god this is awesome. Crazy, catchy instrumentals mixing prog and electronica and funny vocalizing. Big, big fun. Lots of wackiness on synths, masking some complex, Zappa-ish composing. Mandatory for fans of pop-synth sounds like Death By Chocolate or Thelonious Moog. It's like a moving walkway with the speed set too high -- you don't lose your balance, but you often feel like you're almost there. Tracks like (8) leave you feeling bombarded -- just as you settle into one musical idea, it throws something else at you. (9) starts out loungy and nice but ends up more tense, with "bow-bo-bow" vocal chanting. Vervloesem, from Belgium, was part of the crazed avant-rock/jazz/whatever group X-Legged Sally. It's all him here, with wife Michele Vervloesem adding some vocals. 1- Fast, breezy. The "yip yip yip yip... Voila!" part is just awesome. 2- A rare nearly-serious moment. Airy, w/pretty vocals (wordless). Slowish meandering, w/hints of modern classical. Overlapping vocals near the end are pretty damn cool. 3- Fast bing-bong beat. Pleasantly chiming at the end. 4- Nifty tiny swingy feel. 5- Fluty and quirky-classical. Gets into some stompy rock-out moments. 6- Chorus-like, more Bacharach than choir 7- Mellowish electronica melody, manic popping percussion. 8- Tense, bouncing, popping, playful. 9- Calm, even loungy. With some goofy vocal sounds later as it gets more tense. 10- Kind of a secret-agent march with synthy harpsichord sounds. 11- Fast faux-serious beat after a crazy synth solo. 12- Serpentine piano, fairly fast. Serious, then collapses into a funny synth-kazoo party. 13- Oh so Euro. Dry diffident beat, detatched French narration. 21st-century film noir. 14- Slowish, into warbly manipulated sound. Lots of Zappa-esque/classical turns. More noise-y than most. | ||
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