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| | | de stijl (usa) #ind 058 cd michael yonkers “grimwood” compact disc - damsel fair and your angel (5:15)
- grimwood (1:30)
- sandcastle (2:00)
- lonely fog (5:40)
- the day is through (8:10)
- 162 (3:00)
- and give it to you (4:40)
- tripping through the rose gardens (3:30)
- the answer (2:00)
- sunflower (3:40)
- the big parade (2:50)
- the thing called love (1:05)
| | 2007 release ; reissue of the 1974 follow-up to yonkers’ storied “microminiature love” ... further home-studio experimentation (lots of sped-up guitars, early synths & weird tape-speed mangle - listen to the beginning of the sound-sample) peppering a largely folk-psych bent ; just as revelatory as his debut ... |
| | de stijl press release... |
| michael yonkers
grimwood
cd 057
recorded in 1969, a follow up to microminiature love (destijl lp 2002, subpop cd 2003), grimwood's grand, majestic quietude is something of a reaction to the formers radical, raucous guitar excursions into the unknown. a beautiful record.
grimwood: a private flight
as the 60s are routinely considered the time in which social activism melded with a public consciousness, the simultaneous development of the intimate sphere of privacy is one which has been negatively defined with political implications: the idealization of the autonomous, nuclear family, the depature of urban environs, and the newly-built home in a vast suburban sprawl. and as a reaction to the resultant overflowing dumpsters and swelling landfills was a flight of small numbers who engaged in the private, cathartic processes of making a record.
in ways both public and private, today must mirror the heady / heavy days of 1969, and grimwood reflects not only the time in which it was created, but the moment in which we hear it now. somehow tho, the realization that retrieval of the lost was not possible must have been more strongly felt in that bygone era. within the context of globalized social unrest, those unafraid to form a parade still deal with the conflict of sadness / loss in personal life. amidst the crumbled mire of his microminiature love / candy floss / sire deal, yonkers retreated from these disappointments, and from his own densely chaotic sounds.
it would seem that yonkers followed a trail that psychologically parallels the sunlife highway, and his private flight took place in a presumably small hut, nestled on a lemonade lake, and from his chimney wafted rainbow smoke, in the fantastical haven of the mystical, mythical grimwood town for which the rec is named, as he attempted to allow light / space into areas of his psyche that hadn't seen enough of either in some time. |
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