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Ellis Island Sound
Good Seed
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Republica Evescarra
2. Olympic 2020
3. Cyanide [Beach Detective Mix] - Ellis Island Sound, Regular Fries
4. Your Twisted Sister [Ellis Island Sound Remix] - Ellis Island Sound, G., Ben
5. Vis Charm
6. Ranch Stuff
7. Six Shooter Annex
8. Data Centre
9. Half Nelson
10. Theme from Milos
11. Ocean Spray [Ellis Island Sound Remix] - Ellis Island Sound, Bradfield, James De

CD Details

All Artists: Ellis Island Sound
Title: Good Seed
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Peacefrog
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 3/26/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Pop
Styles: Electronica, Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

Synopsis

Album Description

Ellis Island Sound started life as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Peter Astor (The Weather Prophets, The Loft) and David Sheppard, gentlemen adventurers in sound since 1997. Recorded in a tiny, deconsecrated chapel in the sleepy Waveney Valley on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, the album features 20 brand new songs. Using acoustic instruments that range from parlour guitars and ukuleles to pump harmoniums, dulcimers, goat skin drums and washboards, and recorded on an antediluvian 8-track tape recorder, it's EIS stripped down to their analogue fundaments. That said, Pete and David also deploy a stylophone, a Casio mini-sampler, a Bentley Rhythm Ace drum machine and miscellaneous noise making devices. Their friend Josh Hillman (from the Willard Grant Conspiracy) helps out, lending violin, viola and pedal steel. Peacefrog. 2007.

CD Reviews

Aural bubblewrap

Richard Diaz | 10/22/2002

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Ellis Island Sound the band is Pete Astor and David Sheppard. Ellis Island Sound the album is dance music with the edges rounded off, hazy instrumental mellotronica with a simple formula explored over eleven pieces; lightly "jam" in the studio with live drums and keyboards, post some tape loops and minimal guitar strains - voila! Instant Ibiza success. Occasionally rising to midtempo ("Olympic 2020") or dropping some slight funk, as in the handclaps of "Cyanide," even some seagull caws and jaunty xylophone for variety ("Your Twisted Sister") you still can't escape the feeling that they're one ingredient shy - the hook - from pristine chill pop. Think pastel Fila Brazilla reinterpreting Blue States for reference. So yes, it's a tad soft, and couldn't be safer if encased in bubblewrap; still beats 75% of those chillout compilations out there."