Friday 4 September 2009

You don't have a burning desire at all

The Books - Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities - 2006
















Bonjour mesdames et messieurs,

I'll break my silence today with something to satisfy and sooth our experimental souls. I present The Books, an amazingly consfusing and inspiring duo consisting of Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong.
If you like to think deep while brushing your teeth or unlocking your front door, or standing in a french elevator you will be able to enjoy this Geräuschkulisse(soundscape). Their music is something between electronic, folk, accoustic, samples, speech and sounds which can be described as a poor copy of bodily functions.
This being the newest piece of work which was actually designed for an elevator in the french Ministry of Culture (produced on their request), starts of with gentle songs and chants which come close to earlier albums such as Lemon Of Pink (2003). The mostly characteristically short "songs" progress to only consist of recordings and speech. You may remain in a delighted and slightly confused but actually wiser state of mind after listetning to this peculiar music.
It's a short but rather dense album, so enjoy and brush away.

Please buy and support.

But most of all, listen.

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