Track Listing 1. September Song 2. Signed Curtain 3. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 4. Come Prima 5. 24 Mila Baci 6. L'Italiano
| Details | | Distributor: | Dutch East India Trading | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Pascal Comelade; Robert Wyatt (vocals, trumpet, percussion). The unmistakable voice of Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine, Matching Mole) highlights this mini-album from French composer Pascal Comelade. Wyatt only features on the opening track, a whimsical orchestration of Kurt Weill's "September Song," but his gentle, youthful spirit informs the rest of this delightful disc. Comelade offers a charming, multi-tracked toy-piano take on Wyatt's "Signed Curtain," and a twangy reading of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Patrick Felices' double bass anchors the lilting "Come Prima," presented in a classic Comelade one-man orchestra arrangement of squeaky toys, plastic mandolins, tinny drums, and wheezy melodica. Comelade's "The Sheik of Araby" fleshes out a familiar tune with off-key oompah organ and cute flute, ukulele, and accordion solos. Touches of electric guitar, harp, and double bass sculpt "24 Mila Baci" from the rickety clatter of Comelade's plastic piano and ukulele. The closing piece "L'Italiano" features a vibrant Moog melody, and what Comelade calls an "anti-techno orchestra" of drums and galloping rhythmic presets.
Editorial Reviews ...Overtracked instrumentals...rendered with quaint 'mechanical' noises... The Wire (12/01/2000)
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