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Exo​-​Celestial

by Ectogram

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1.
Out Of Storks 03:56
2.
Geometric Overload 03:33
3.
Green Tangerine 03:05
4.
Diermaier's Dream 03:53
5.
Even Stephen 03:10
6.
Diese 03:38
7.
Land Edges 03:49
8.
April Breaming 03:29
9.
Tritonathon 03:19
10.
Eregut of Tasania 02:49
11.
Isodermia 03:56
12.
Starfright 03:46
13.
Dancing at Sparrows 02:53

about

For Ectogram's seventh album, the group proposed a set of rules. Their previous two releases had both been recorded live in the studio with minimum overdubs, one largely improvised and later edited into songs, the other pretty much pre-arranged and rehearsed songs captured faithfully as performed live. It seemed time for a different approach.

The group had plenty of songs that they had been playing live for the past couple of years, varying in length between five and fifteen minutes and featuring their familiar barrage of abrasive guitar textures but...

What if the album was to be a standard length 'pop' LP containing twelve three minute songs?
What if no electric guitars were to be used on the album?
What if the group were to all record their parts separately with little or no live interaction?

Ectogram began work on the record with these three premises in mind, Maeyc laying down drum tracks at his home studio and passing them on to the others to add whatever instrumentation they saw fit. After passing the recordings back and forth between the three of them over many months, Exo-Celestial was born.

Of course, with the group not being naturally amenable to observing rules, some electric guitar did sneak its way onto the record (although very little) and some songs ended up longer than three minutes (though only a bit), but generally the record sounds quite different to previous ectoreleases and the group even managed to squeeze thirteen songs into the 45 minutes playing time! Drums and vocals provide a familiar framework for the songs, but the space between is awash with the exotic colours of non-rock instrumentation - clarinets, glockenspiels, recorders, mandolins, mellotrons, analogue electronics and even pan-pipes! Everything is propelled by Maeyc's drums, bass and sine wave groove as Ann's melodiously layered vocal curlicues soar and swoop above and through the sonorous cocktail. Exo-Celestial is Ectogram's pop record, although a pop record more in the tradition of The Art Bears, Roxy Music and Stereolab than One Direction, Olly Murs or JLS.

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released December 21, 2012

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Turquoise Coal started in 2012 as a depository for archive recordings of north Wales music. Later that year we became a record label and have released several vinyl LPs, CDs and downloads. Some can be found here, and will be continuously added to over time. All our releases by Spectralate can be found on the group's own site (see link below). ... more

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