Benbecula Records
Scotland, 1999-2009
Electronica, ambient, electro,
folk, post-rock ... blah
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Araya
"Whilst We Try"
Christ.
"Distance Lends Enchantment
to the View"
Layton & Wood
"When? Softly"
Talvihorros
"Some Ambulance"
MINERALS SERIES
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Rain-cloud "Rain-cloud" Benbecula Records, 2007 (BEN529) CD Album Minerals Series - Limited Release date: 26 March 2007 Track Listing 01 Maybank Nightmare 02 Low Levels 03 Cloud Surprise 04 I Sit Here all Day 05 Such a Short Night 06 Cloud of Unknowing 07 Faulty Spaceship One 08 Faulty Spaceship Two 09 Keeping a Low Profile 10 A Breeze Would be Good BUY THIS RELEASE Rain-cloud is the partnership of Dom Dixon (talkingmakesnosense) and Alec Cheer. Their similar styles and influences complement each other beautifully on this album of sci-fi meets acoustic wonderment. Lullaby dream sequences are injected with mechanical bots and digital undertones that merge as a perfect whole. Rain-cloud have already attracted attention from the excellent web label Luvsound, with a track contributed to their 2007 compilation, "Summer Gate. Sun Made of Gave". This is Rain-cloud's debut album and we are very proud to release it as a Minerals exclusive. "... The duo's peaceful material evocatively conjures images of vast countryside panoramas and early-morning, seaside tranquility, the music's meditative character conveyed by titles like “I Sit Here all Day” and “Keeping a Low Profile.” “Cloud Surprise,” for example, doesn't announce the sudden onset of a violent storm but instead suggests a slow, stately drift of cumulous clouds across an immense blue sky. Sometimes, the background noise translates into programmatic content, like the loud rippling noise produced by deeply-gouged vinyl that suggests a storm-tossed setting in “Faulty Spaceship Two.” Rain-cloud will appeal to those drawn to the ‘ambient electro-acoustic' material that's sometimes issued by labels like Type and CCO sub-label Büro." Textura |
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Resources Rain-cloud on MySpace Luvsound |
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Various
"Ten Tracks Retrospective"
Plum
"Different
Skin"
Ochre
"Like Dust of the Balance"
The Flowers of Hell
"Come Hell or High
Water"
Wounded Knee
"Shimmering New
Vistas"
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