| Tin Hat / Foreign Legion |
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| Album: | Foreign Legion | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Tin Hat | Added: | May 2010 | |
| Label: | Bag Production | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-06-20 | Pull Date: | 2010-08-22 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Aug 22 | Aug 15 | Aug 8 | Aug 1 | Jul 25 | Jul 18 | Jul 11 | Jul 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 18, 2012: | The Mongrel's Stoop The Secret Fluid Of Dusk, Foreign Legion | 4. | Aug 19, 2010: | Memory Select Compay | |
| 2. | Apr 21, 2012: | The Mongrel's Stoop Helium | 5. | Aug 12, 2010: | Sunshine . . . in the Afternoon Foreign Legion | |
| 3. | Apr 16, 2011: | Everyday Commotion Hotel Aurora | 6. | Aug 12, 2010: | Elite Syncopations Asterisk |
| Album Review |
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| Mason Reviewed 2010-06-13 | ||
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Tin Hat / Foreign Legion Elegant, understated instrumental jazz. Predominantly minor-key, rainy day feel, but keeps it moving with nice funky rhythms. Some beautiful carefully arranged harmonies in choruses. Occasional dissonances and weird intrusions keep it interesting, but it's never a difficult listen. No FCCs. 7 is gorgeous; 1,3,4,5 are also particularly nice. --Mason 1. * Coolly funky with hard-slapped acoustic guitar, made interesting with intrusions of bells, woodwinds, accordion-like pump organ, and beautiful passing-train string swells. 2. Bluesy with interjections of frantic guitar strumming, with funny dissonant accordion 3. * Quieter, pensive, more classical sounding, pretty interwoven violin, clarinet, horn. Segues naturally to next song. 4. * Melancholic 7/4 time with beautiful eerie violin on 5/4 bridge. 5. * 3/4 time with cool chromatic clarinet weaving itself around folky violin melody, falling in and out of muddy dissonance. 6. Fast but chilled-out funk with busy guitar. 7. ** Stately with interesting horn/violin/clarinet harmonizing; starts melancholic then brightens up like a sunrise. Very pretty. 8. Droopy blues with more nice harmonizing. 9. Stately with strong folky 3/4 rhythm and regal horn. In between medieval heroic ballad and spaghetti western. 10. Elegant toe-tapping tango with pump organ. 11. Soft funky head-nodding guitar, whispering clarinet/violin harmonizing, gets all itchy-scratchy ants-in-the-pants in the guitar solo. 12. Funky 3/4 rhythm, another eerie/sad tune. 13. Swaying 3/4 rhythm, spaghetti western feel with mariachi-ish horn. 14. Short quiet waltz, classical feel, pump organ and violin only. 15. Reflective folk-rockish guitar/violin/piano, with interjections of cool dissonant piano runs. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Helium | 8. | The Last Cowboy | |||
| 2. | Big Top | 9. | Sunrise At Independence | |||
| 3. | A Fata Morgana | 10. | Ana Ivanovic | |||
| 4. | Compay | 11. | Foreign Legion | |||
| 5. | Waltz Of The Skyscraper | 12. | The Secret Fluid Of Dusk | |||
| 6. | Hotel Aurora | 13. | New West | |||
| 7. | Asterisk | 14. | Slip | |||
| 15. | Nickel Mountain | |||||