Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Califone Title: Roomsound Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Perishable Original Release Date: 4/8/2001 Release Date: 4/8/2001 Album Type: Enhanced Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Experimental Music Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 663849003429 |
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Roomsound, the debut full length from Califone, covers the same rustic, slightly ramshackle back forty that Tim Rutili has been ploughing since at least as far back as his previous band Red Red Meat. Only this time the til... more » |
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Album Description Roomsound, the debut full length from Califone, covers the same rustic, slightly ramshackle back forty that Tim Rutili has been ploughing since at least as far back as his previous band Red Red Meat. Only this time the tilled bedrock unveils the most vividly colored, luring crop of songs Rutili has ever harvested. The sleepy, country-blues picking and autumnal melodies are accented with striking splashes of electronic tone color, obsolete keyboards and off-kilter percussion. Lyrically, Roomsound penetrates the breath of pirates, poison apples at a tango contest and the waiting room between death and canonization where missionaries have quit and 19th-century whores are rescued for all the wrong reasons. Roomsound is a hauntingly unique and distinctive record of crafted and sculpted beauty. Recorded and mixed at clava-sound by Brian Deck. This is an enhanced CD. This disc contains 3 performance videos of Califone filmed live in an industrial bathroom. The videos are in QuickTime format. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsNearly Perfect Professor DADGAD | Pennsyltucky | 10/29/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "There are days when I think that this album is as close to perfect as any I own. The songs are smart, original, and well rendered. The instrumentation is an understated and erie blend of acoustic roots music, early electronica, and blues-inflected guitar work. The melodies are interesting, and stay with you, even when the words don't. The textures are delicious and hold up to repeated listening. The best thing about the album, though, is that there is nothing quite like it out there, at least that I have heard. These guys found a sound that is beautiful and creepy, edgy and slinky. I've had it in fairly heavy rotation for a year now. If you ever get a chance to see them live, do it." " . . . we'll play a Stones' song, sittin' on a fence . . ." Steven Kosakowski | West Coast Jazz | 02/18/2007 (4 out of 5 stars) "I've followed this shambling Chicago indie country-blues outfit from Red Red Meat's Jimmywine Majestic through sidewinding projects like Loftus, oRSo, sin Ropas, and the earlier Califone ep's.
There are fewer folk involved in this one (pretty much Rutili-driven, I think), and it doesn't wander off the path into thorny thickets of tape loopery as these things sometimes have in the past - what we have here is probably as focused and confident a set of fuzzed-out folk-blues as they'll ever care to release. Think Lou Reed and John Cale playing a not entirely acoustic set with the Glimmer Twins through Ike Turner's busted amp at Sun Studios. Highlights: bottles and bones, slow rt hand." |
