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The 53rd Part 1 IndieNugget Playlist

SHEL is a band with four sisters who are good friends of mine.  I recorded this at Bridge Studios in Longmont, and the tune is one that I have mixed live for them during several shows.

Lost as Anyone - SHEL

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Johnny Johnny

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique]

Based in Californian Humboldt County, Brian Pyle wanders the world on his countless travels. Far from being restless, he has his very own Pylesque way of travelling. Much like a Lynchian version of Hemingway, he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity. Wherever he goes, he ardently absorbes these nuances, rarefies them and moulds them into a seamless array of glimmering styles, from drone and ambient to shoegaze and post-wave, giving birth to yet another creation of his prolific Ensemble Economique project.
On his by now eleventh album and fourth Denovali release "Blossoms In Red", Pyle combines and perfects elements of his previous output into a cohesive narrative. The opener "From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain" is a surprisingly scarce ambient piece, which feels like an almost infinitely stretched precious moment of time. Despite being austere, it is warm, sublime and incredibly captivating and after listening to its full 8 minutes, one cannot help but to rewind and replay. Having barely escaped this seductively infinite loop, one encounters the title track "Blossoms In Red" featuring Portland electronic duo Soft Metals. Starting off with a characteristic sluggish programmed beat, one is immediately overpowered by the onset of the towering combination of a warm bassline and a shimmering synth ambience. As the track flows, these elements writhe around each other in a delicately beautiful fashion, absorbing the materialising wailing guitar which almost sounds like an ethereal voice, as well as the occasional melodic and rhythmic accents. The next track sees this guitar return in a rather pure form. "On The Sand", featuring jack-of-all-trades Peter Broderick, is essentially just reduced analogue drums, electric guitar, a simple vibrating bassline and hoarse almost spoken vocals. Slowly and methodically, these constituents form a captivating erotic ritual, much like a beguiling and hypnotic mandala procession of imperturbable blissful individuals on the beach. As proven on numerous occasions, Pyle can easily lead all his trumps in the presence of female lead vocals, and "Blossoms In Red" makes no exception. Indeed, "You, By Candlelight" is easily the best Ensemble Economique track with female vox to date. Pyle manages to embed the vocals just in the right minimal amount of instrumental layers, making the track radiate an elusive tranquility. The fifth and closing track "Nothing Is Perfect" is a classically tinged piano piece with only very little processing and sparse field recording samples. With all pieces of the album, Pyle manages to create tracks which feel like being composed only of two or three layers of sound, that are nevertheless allowed to develop a life cycle which seems incredibly long - track lengths vary from 6:30 to 8:10 - but still feels just right. Thus "Blossoms In Red" is probably Ensemble Economique's most minimalistic album, but at the same time - or maybe just for this reason - his most skilled work.

Blossoms In Red

Ensemble Economique - On The Sand (feat. Peter Broderick)

Brazzaville - Morning Light (East L.A. Breeze)

“The chorus was initially recorded as a demo in 2014, with only guitars and vocals. We re-discovered it during the summer of 2015 and completed the song. It was a breaking point for us in the process of writing the new material, as it set the whole identity of the EP.” //NOVAH

Debut EP "Alaska" will be released this spring. 

https://www.facebook.com/novahofficial/

Revolution

"1973" by Beth Orton from the album 'Kidsticks,' available May 27th
Pre-order here: https://BethOrton.lnk.to/Kidsticks

Official Site: http://www.bethortonofficial.com/
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Beth Orton - 1973

Tribute to Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut". The original song's from the album "The Final Cut", released in 1983 by "Harvest Records".

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDeg9uCzzX0

Production and arrangements by Celo Oliveira at Kolera Home Studio
Performed by Fleesh (Gabby Vessoni and Celo Oliveira) at Kolera Home Studio

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (Fleesh Version)

Imperfectly Beautiful - Stacey Ruttledge & Louise Bernadette Dowd

When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so very special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so very special
Yeah I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

She's running
She's running out the door
I said she's running out
She runs runs runs runs...
Run...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so very special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I said it
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong

I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox:
http://postmodernjukebox.com/

Lost as Anyone - SHEL

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