Ever have an album playing in your earphones and/or stereo and have it unfold in your head like a soundtrack to fleeting thoughts, memories, or whatever is going on around you at that moment?
Well I have. Matter of fact I almost always do when I am playing the album "Connectivity!" by Michigan born "dream pop" band "Mahogany."
As soon as the opening note on the first track of this album makes its way through my ears, I (without warning) get transported into some sort of imaginary audio "How it's made" episode. Images of bottles being capped on a machine operated factory production line, or sped up film of people getting off and on the subway trains in a busy terminal start to play out in perfect birds eye form. It sounds a little crazy I know. That's the beauty of music sometimes no?
The ability to take someones else's creativity and use it as a launching pad for your own?
Only their 2nd album in 10 years, Mahogany's 2006 release Connectivity! finds itself meandering through a plethora of musical arrangements and stylings in an almost unintentional way. From dream-pop vocals not unlike those of shoegaze era Britain, to 80's synth arrangements, and IDM drum timing (both electronic and real.) I find this album to be layered with just about everything. This is "probably" due to the fact that at the time of recording there were 8 members in the band all with their own individual input, and as such plays out like a "smörgåsbord" of sound and material that is sometimes hard to classify or label.
This album, or Mahogany's take on the genres I have mentioned, is not for everyone. It takes a little bit of an open mind and at times some creative listening skills to truly appreciate. If you can ween yourself off the tit of mainstream music and want to try your hand at something a little left of centre, download or head to your local music store and try to find this.
Now, if you don't mind, I have to call Murphy to let him know another of his recommendations made the blog so he can check mark it off his bucket list.
Fatty.
5 comments:
Big Daddy Kane.
"Pimpin ain't easy, drop the needle, jump around."
-Dr Martin Luther King
Jr
Hi I'm the trainspotter and nickeback is the greatest band ever in the universe of coolness.
Also I think that Rhianna's "Umbrella"
Is an accurate statement about life. Rainy days indeed my Asian friends, rainy days indeed.
P.S Now that it's rainin moe than evva you can stand unnda mah umbrella. Ella ella eh eh eh.
Hi, I'm Anonymous.
I enjoy quoting Rhianna lyrics and avoiding proofreading (see Nickelback misspelling)I also take pleasure in being buggered in the back of dirty taxi cabs and hanging around Coffee Time bathroom glory holes.
You my friend are someone worth living vicariously through.
Oh to be 14 again.
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