DISL Automatic - The Ambush

Taken from Mickey Deville's long awaited 'Cloak & Dagger' EP - OUT NOW

Mixed by Mickey Deville & Chris Jones.

Mastered by Chris Jones at Peak Studios, Germany.
Web: www.peak-studios.de/en/

Artwork by Chris B. Murray.
Web: www.chrisbmurray.com/

Cloak & Dagger

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original track, 2006


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TREASURE ISLAND
A Dark Sea Shanty Trap Concept Album — 34 Tracks
After Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) — Public Domain
 
The 808 is the ocean. Patient. Inevitable.
The shanty is the work. The haul of the rope. The labor of men who know what they're sailing toward.
The ensemble gets smaller as the island demands its toll.
Silver is at the center. Silver is always at the center.
 
34 tracks. Three acts: the Admiral Benbow, the Hispaniola, the island.
Jim Hawkins grows up, track by track, until the boy who found the map
is not the boy who comes home.
Long John Silver saves his life multiple times for reasons that remain,
as Silver himself remains,
unresolved.
 
You know the story. The map, the ship, the cook with one leg, the apple barrel, the island, the stockade, the treasure, the escape. You've heard it told as adventure. This time you hear it from inside every room it passes through — the inn where Billy Bones drank himself to death, the barrel where Jim heard the plan that changed everything, the parley where Silver stood between both worlds with perfect composure, the cave where Ben Gunn had moved the treasure one load at a time across three years of solitude, the night Silver slipped into the ocean with his coins and was gone.
 
The music fuses traditional sea shanty structure — the call and response of labor, the rhythm of rope and tide — with dark trap production: deep 808 bass that moves like the Atlantic beneath everything, hi-hats that mimic the haul of the work song, drops that arrive like a ship appearing through fog. Three distinct sonic registers track the journey: the warm minor key of the Admiral Benbow, the full ensemble of the Hispaniola under sail with wrong harmonies underneath the shanty that the production hears before Jim does, and the stripped and deepening production of the island itself, where the ensemble shrinks battle by battle and the call finds fewer voices to answer it.
 
Silver has two layers in his theme — warmth and danger, running simultaneously — and the album never resolves which one is real. Because both are real. That's the point. The apple barrel scene is eight bars of almost silence: just Jim's breath and Silver's voice and the 808 ocean below. It is the most important eight bars on the album. Everything before it is the world before Jim heard what Silver was. Everything after it is the world after.
 
This is not a pirate album. It is a loyalty album. What Silver built on the Hispaniola was loyalty — the wrong kind, pointed the wrong direction, for the wrong purpose — but it was real loyalty, and when the island was finished with it, when the treasure was divided and the reckoning came, Silver chose the sea over England, as he always was going to, as the sea was always going to take him back.
 
The parrot still says pieces of eight.
Jim still hears it in his dreams.
The island is still there.
 
TRACKLIST:
01. The Admiral Benbow Inn
02. Billy Bones
03. The Black Spot (Blind Pew)
04. Billy Bones Is Dead
05. The Oil-Skin Packet
06. Squire Trelawney
07. Dr. Livesey Takes Charge
08. Bristol
09. Long John Silver (First Appearance)
10. The Hispaniola Sets Sail
11. Cap'n Flint (The Parrot)
12. Captain Smollett's Warning
13. The Crew
14. The Apple Barrel
15. Pieces of Eight
16. Land Ho
17. The Coracle
18. Ben Gunn
19. The Stockade
20. The Attack
21. Silver Comes to Parley
22. The Black Spot (Silver Receives It)
23. Jim Takes the Hispaniola
24. Israel Hands
25. The Jolly Roger Comes Down
26. Silver Saves Jim
27. The Map Is Wrong
28. The Battle in the Trees
29. Ben Gunn's Cave
30. Loading the Hispaniola
31. The Three Pirates (Left Behind)
32. Silver Escapes
33. Home
34. The Parrot in My Dreams

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