Formica Blues

Mono - Formica Blues (1997) Music

Posted by gribovar at March 3, 2022

Caught like many other mid-'90s male instrumentalist/female singer duos were in the commercial slipstream of Portishead's success, Mono deftly steered clear of the trip-hop conundrum for the most part with Formica Blues. Certainly there was a certain shared sense of cinematic drama and haunting gloom that informs plenty of songs - consider the Get Carter-sampling "Silicone," while "The Outsider" has an emotional directness Beth Gibbons would be proud of. The fact that lead single "Life in Mono" samples Portishead favorite John Barry and works with breakbeats didn't necessarily help Mono stand out more, for instance. But observations that Saint Etienne rather than the Bristol duo makes for a better role model are actually more accurate, and certainly on "Life in Mono" the keyboards and melancholy yet wistful singing of Siobhan de Maré suggests the likes of "Avenue" more than it does "Sour Times"…

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Mono - Formica Blues (1997) Music

Posted by a_l_chemist at Jan. 23, 2010

Formica Blues is an album from UK band Mono. It was first released in the UK in 1997. Four singles were released from the album, of which the lead single, ‘Life in Mono’, was the most successful. Melody Maker, in an overwhelmingly positive review, calls Formica Blues ‘unutterably gorgeous’, praising it for evoking the era when ‘London was about to swing’.

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Mark Cole - Cole (2018) Music

Posted by Domestos at July 12, 2018

COLE is the eponymous debut release from Mark Cole and features original songs across the variety of musical styles that he performs in. The eleven track album not only highlights his flair as a songwriter (one track, ‘Let me Down’, achieving a runner-up place in the globally recognized International Songwriting Competition) but also as a multi-instrumentalist, as Mark plays nearly all of the instruments on the recordings.

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Ghost Horse - Trojan (2019) Music

Posted by Domestos at Jan. 4, 2020

Ghost Horse - Trojan (2019)
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Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | Country: Italy | Label: AUAND

Italian-American sextet Ghost Horse's debut record Trojan will be released on October 18th, 2019 as a double LP by groundbreaking Chicago-based underground electronic label Mathematics Recordings and on CD by Auand, Italy's most important contemporary jazz label. Sprouting from a rich humus of Latin and African polyrhythms, Ghost Horse generates a dark and mysterious ecosystem, digesting, decomposing and recombining elements of free jazz, hip hop, blues and loop music. The result is something fascinating but quietly menacing, pulsing and breathing with the visceral force of nature reclaiming abandoned structures.

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Ghost Horse (Hobby Horse) - Trojan (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 29, 2020

Ghost Horse (Hobby Horse) - Trojan (2019)
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Jazz Fusion | Label: Auand Records

Italian-American sextet Ghost Horse's debut record Trojan was released on October 18th, 2019 as a double LP by groundbreaking Chicago-based underground electronic label Mathematics Recordings and on CD by Auand, Italy's most important contemporary jazz label.

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