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| | | home tapes (usa) #ht 005 cd paul duncan “to an ambient hollywood” compact disc - 1 in 22
- ghost of a memory
- film life
- swam an ocean
- call it work
- has-been actor
- don’t look now
- asinine feelings
- as the ship sank
- the sharks were gentle
- letdownville
- are you embarrassed?
| | home tapes press release... |
| | to an ambient hollywood” is paul duncan’s debut album, a document of music made and recorded at his former home in savannah, georgia, over the period of a year. guitar, vibraphone, bass guitar, drums, pedal steel, trumpet, saxophone, piano, air organ, and synthesizers, as well as paul’s arresting voice, combine to create 40 minutes of carefully constructed music – the kind that manipulates your brain and heart simultaneously. the songs move back and forth; the purely instrumental flows into beautifully integrated vocal tracks. simple guitar loops give way to elegantly constructed arrangements, which act as if they’ve been there the whole time, poised and waiting. paul performed the majority of the instrumentation and wrote all of the arrangements for the guest musicians (the album features matt crum and roberto lange of rom [counterflow recordings], as well as savannah musicians and friends). paul also managed to record and mix the entire album, often rushing between his computer and the makeshift vocal booth across the room. the personalized nature of the creation process has resulted in a seemingly unavoidable sense of intimacy. the lyrics hold on to that humanity, too, hinting at the awkwardness that tends to accompany ordinary life. to an ambient hollywood is about the subtle ridiculousness of modern existence, a collective waking dream told in song. the sequence of tracks flows like the scenes of a film, interludes carrying one between musical climaxes. song titles like film life, has-been actor, and letdownville indicate a conscious consideration of the nature of hollywood and its parallels to the average human day-to-day. this quality is visually reinforced by j penry’s construction paper drawings, which cover the cd’s packaging. j has devoted most of his life to creating work that suggests our common human absurdity and the dichotomy of a culture that tends to take itself too seriously and not seriously enough, all at once. his art captures the essence of people and situations that paul conveys with his music. |
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