Listening Tree [Gaganymede]

Listening Tree

06 October 2010 at 19:53
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I FINALLY (FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY!) got Tim Exile's album, Listening Tree. Yeah, remember, I posted the video of Family Galaxy here. OK, I'll just post it again:

The credits of that video must be on the website hosting it.

It's a very good album. First, the music is genius, worked out to the finest detail, and stuff. It's normal, it comes from Warp. The asynchronous loops of Family Galaxy keep driving me cray. You have to know that the guy creates his own instruments! By the way, a little demo of one of his lives with a joystick:

The credits of that video must be on the website hosting it.

At the end of the record, I Saw The Weak Hand Fall is more ambient then IDM, and even reminds of classical music. (Time Exile only does electronic music but he's been classically trained - he can play violin.)

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The lyrics too are interesting. If several titles address, sometimes in a clumsy way, critics towards consumer's society (such as Pay Tomorrow or Carouselle), others are so abstract you can associate anything with them and quickly identify. In the title-song Listening Tree, it gives:

The Listening Tree has a message for you:
All you need to be is here

You can then think of how you sometimes pressure yourself to be the best, the most handsome, the most intelligent, the purest, the most perfect although you may need to be all that.

His lyrics can sometimes as well be more cynical. Love songs say that a couple make one person, hippies as well but in a more global fashion. Exile starts the album with Don't Think We're One, ah ah ah!

The fact he writes interesting lyrics may come from the fact that he completed a degree in philosophy. (Maybe!)

In a nutshell, Tim Exile is not only a musician, he's also the best, the most handsome, the most intelligent, the purest, the most perfect...