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quote:FISCHERSPOONER’S ODYSSEY
TO BE RELEASED APRIL 5
NYC ART-POP DUO TAKES A VAST LEAP FORWARD
REMIX 12” OF LEAD SINGLE “JUST LET GO” OUT NOW!
(New York, NY) – Odyssey, the long-awaited follow-up to NYC art-pop duo Fischerspooner’s groundbreaking debut, #1, will be released on April 5th worldwide.
Due to overwhelming response from Radio 1, KCRW, KROQ and DJ’s and clubs around the globe, Capitol Records has commercially released a remix 12” of lead single “Just Let Go” featuring mixes by Thin White Duke (aka Jacques Lu Cont) and Tommie Sunshine, out now.
#1 was a shot heard around the world, an end-of-the millennium musical statement of pure digital and visual style, written in part to accompany Fischerspooner’s epic pop performances. Rolling Stone called it “an alternate galaxy hit” and NME called it “the best thing to happen to music since electricity.”
A daunting act to follow, but Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner had something even bigger up their sleeves. Odyssey would be a vast musical leap forward, and its realization would take over two years and stretch the duo to their physical and creative breaking point.
For their second album, Fischerspooner had a new agenda – to create a cohesive album of songs that were more expressive and emotional than their predecessors, aiming for a rich, warm sound in contrast to the crisp surfaces and digital conceptualism of #1. Inspired musically by classic and psychedelic rock, the familiar Fischerspooner sound is now suffused with analog sounds, live instruments and a lush new ambience. Like the albums that inspired it, Odyssey is a bona fide headphone album, layered with hidden sounds and ideas that reward the close listener. “I was thinking of songs I remembered hearing on the radio as a kid,” says Fischer. “That warm seventies FM sound coming off the radio from bands like The Beatles or Pink Floyd.”
To that end, Fischerspooner created a “virtual band,” bringing session musicians into studios in Brooklyn where Fischer worked with longtime engineer and collaborator Nicholas Vernhes (Fiery Furnaces, Black Dice). In a similar departure from the previous album, Spooner began to reveal more emotion and personal perspective in his lyrics and vocals, thematically pulling from classical and romantic ideas from all eras.
The pair also decided to creatively step outside of their inner circle for the first time with a wish list of likeminded collaborators. Fischer traveled to Los Angeles to work with producer Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air) at the legendary Sunset Sound Studios. And Spooner reached out to the unlikely pairing of hit songwriter Linda Perry and pre-eminent intellectual Susan Sontag in a bid to reflect the twin pillars of their inspiration – high art and pop culture.
“When I approached Susan, it was September 2003” says Casey. “I went to her house and had this fantasy that we would pick something to work on together from my notebook of ideas.” Instead, after a brief discussion, she disappeared into her library and returned fifteen minutes later with a printed sheet of lyrics titled ‘We Need A War.’ “I read them and said ‘I don’t think I can say the word ‘’war.’ I’m not comfortable saying it.” Sontag responded, “You need to get comfortable saying it. Your president approved eighty billion dollars for a war in Iraq yesterday.”
But as the emotional and physical toll of many months in the studio began to take hold, tensions over creative balance began to swell. Where #1 was created sporadically, the Odyssey sessions found the two working together intensely in the studio for long stretches, constantly pushing each other further. “We both went a little crazy making the album,” says Spooner. “We really had to grow and change as artists, and change is never easy.”
In the album’s finishing stages the two looked to French producer Mirwais (Madonna’s Ray of Light, among others) to help with the final touches. Also adding to the final inspiration was a weekly, private Salon series hosted throughout the summer of 2004 to preview new music, visual ideas and choreography to the Williamsburg art scene that originally spawned the project.
Odyssey, so named for the unexpected emotional and artistic journey it took to make, is a sonic leap forward -- sounding like nothing before it but still unmistakably Fischerspooner.
FISCHERSPOONER, ODYSSEY
1. Just Let Go
2. Cloud
3. Never Win
4. A Kick in the Teeth
5. Everything to Gain
6. We Need a War
7. Wednesday
8. Happy
9. Ritz 107
10. All We Are
11. Circle (Vision Creation New Sun)
Ik heb net het nieuw album geluisterd en ik ben verliefd!
Het is inderdaad onmiskenbaar Fischerspooner, maar wel met een 80's sound, zeg maar. Mijn favorieten zijn 'Cloud' en 'Never Win', beide mede-geproduceerd door Mirwais. Zeer coole tracks. De laatste van deze twee doet zelfs vaag denken aan 'Another Brick In The Wall' van Pink Floyd.
Ook 'Just Let Go', 'Kick In The Teeth' en 'All We Are' klinken leuk. 'Ritz 107' klinkt als een modern klaasiek stuk met electronisvhe instrumenten. 'Circle' is chaos, maar wel leuke chaos.
Het valt me op dat de liedjes en vocalen ook redelijk melodieus zijn. Aanrader wat mij betreft! Vooral op de discman c.q. mp3speler of iets anders waar je een koptelefoon aan kan sluiten...
Het is inderdaad onmiskenbaar Fischerspooner, maar wel met een 80's sound, zeg maar. Mijn favorieten zijn 'Cloud' en 'Never Win', beide mede-geproduceerd door Mirwais. Zeer coole tracks. De laatste van deze twee doet zelfs vaag denken aan 'Another Brick In The Wall' van Pink Floyd.
Ook 'Just Let Go', 'Kick In The Teeth' en 'All We Are' klinken leuk. 'Ritz 107' klinkt als een modern klaasiek stuk met electronisvhe instrumenten. 'Circle' is chaos, maar wel leuke chaos.
Het valt me op dat de liedjes en vocalen ook redelijk melodieus zijn. Aanrader wat mij betreft! Vooral op de discman c.q. mp3speler of iets anders waar je een koptelefoon aan kan sluiten...
Euh, het album geluisterd?quote:Op maandag 31 januari 2005 21:58 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Ik heb net het nieuw album geluisterd en ik ben verliefd!
Het is inderdaad onmiskenbaar Fischerspooner, maar wel met een 80's sound, zeg maar. Mijn favorieten zijn 'Cloud' en 'Never Win', beide mede-geproduceerd door Mirwais. Zeer coole tracks. De laatste van deze twee doet zelfs vaag denken aan 'Another Brick In The Wall' van Pink Floyd.
Ook 'Just Let Go', 'Kick In The Teeth' en 'All We Are' klinken leuk. 'Ritz 107' klinkt als een modern klaasiek stuk met electronisvhe instrumenten. 'Circle' is chaos, maar wel leuke chaos.
Het valt me op dat de liedjes en vocalen ook redelijk melodieus zijn. Aanrader wat mij betreft! Vooral op de discman c.q. mp3speler of iets anders waar je een koptelefoon aan kan sluiten...
We'll keep on whispering our mantras.
oeh, ik wil em ook, zou je even willen mailen waar je em vandaan hebt ? mail staat in profielquote:
You've got mail!quote:Op dinsdag 1 februari 2005 13:08 schreef superheist het volgende:
[..]
oeh, ik wil em ook, zou je even willen mailen waar je em vandaan hebt ? mail staat in profiel
Nutteloos te zeggen dat ik ook wel email wil hebben denk ik .
nitespeed@hotmail.com
.nitespeed@hotmail.com
We'll keep on whispering our mantras.
*excuus*
[ Bericht 86% gewijzigd door EllyFlorax op 01-02-2005 19:16:35 (dubbelpost ivm traag forum) ]
[ Bericht 86% gewijzigd door EllyFlorax op 01-02-2005 19:16:35 (dubbelpost ivm traag forum) ]
"Dit accepteren we natuurlijk niet"
Ik moet het nog maar zien, maar als 't er is dan geniet ik er graag van mee
ikbengeweldig@gmail.com
ikbengeweldig@gmail.com
"Dit accepteren we natuurlijk niet"
Ikben ook erg benieuwd, friwo@yahoo.com
Bedankt!
Bedankt!
It's better to be late in this world than to be early in the next.
..!
Fischerspooner - Just Let Go
"Just, let it goooooo!"
Thanks [14.gif]!
..!Fischerspooner - Just Let Go
"Just, let it goooooo!"
Thanks [14.gif]!
We'll keep on whispering our mantras.
01. Just Let Go - 4:12
The new direction FS has taken becomes quite clear instantly. It's the FS we know, but now they use real instruments and guitars frequently, to create a richer and warmer sound. Combined with trademark bleeps and electro sounds. But it's all much more 80's remniscent and still undeniably linked to the present. This blows both of the previously released remixes COMPLETELY out of the water. It starts out with an unearthy looped soft bubble bleep and soon the beat, percussion is mixed in and then FS enters the building. But this time like I said with real guitars. Btw, the real track is much faster paced then the remixes. It has a very classic feel. During the break a wonderfull electrobuzz melody is added. The song really builds to a breathtaking climax in which rock and electro work to an overwhelming opening. We are home!
02. Cloud - 3:32
Guitar...stop...guitar, ride into song. Mirwais co-produced this song. But don't think you'll hear American Life like sounds though. No sir! Guitars are there and electro sounds, but that's it. It's more flowing and full, the sounds themselves flow from one to the other, like the chorus and the verses. "I lost myself" Casey sings over a wallpaper of hi-pitch buzzing melodies. More pop then you'd expect from FS.
03. Never Win - 3:59
The influence isn't hard to discover. Everyone who hears this Mirwais produced track has one thing on his mind. Pink Floyd. A perfect mix of guitars, electro and poppy melody/vocals. Overall the slap-bass handclap beat combined with the Pink Floyd influence works like a charm. "good or bad, it's all gonna add up in the end, but you can never win" - break - and then sonically we enter an arcade game. Richly flavoured bleeps and ploinks mix into the fantastic climax. Make it a single and watch the world dance to it all through the summer!
04. A Kick In The Teeth - 4:21
The intro reminded me of the intro of "Emerge". The dark slowly louder sound of a looped bubble bleep. But then, guitars and a soft voice. And we are back in arcade game land again. Imagine an arcade game that tells you a sad story, like an epic digital drama, and then it builds to a uplifting chorus, rich in sound. And we return to a sparse sound for another verse. This cycle repeats itself to create a wonderfull feeling of melancholy for the 21st century. This might be the best combination of real percussion and an electronically created beat so far. It makes your heart soar.
05. Everything To Gain - 4:13
Starts with a menacing sound of a constant high speed bleep. Then hard real percussion is added and a slightly unsettling organ sound. Vocals are echoing while sighs slide in and out. This is yet more proof that FS wanted to combine their electronic toolkit with real live instruments and see what would happen. Kind of unsettling and weird, yet catchy.
06. We Need A War - 3:40
Lyrics by the late Susan Sontag, and sounds that are apparently based on the idea of recreating the percussion of "Sympathy For The Devil" digitally. Very beat driven, high energy and a beautiful epic guitar sound in the middle with a fantastic choris line produced by dreamy female vocals. Building up to an impressive sonic climax in which all come together! The guitars are definately the highlight in this track.
07. Wednesday - 3:27
As the song begins it's like you are transported back to the days of disco and "Ring My Bell" is stuck in the cd-player. Ploink! guitar-riffs and drums are added. Casey repeats "I feel like I'm still there". I can't help but feel how much richer and fuller the sound of this album is compared to FS's first album. They seem to have grabbed Disco by the neck and shoved rock, punk and electro down it's throat, and it like what it tasted like!
08. Happy - 4:00
Stomping beat/percussion from the get-go. Soon bleeps are added and Fischerspooner are in overdrive again. Very full sound, with a very deep slapbass! Very happy feeling and uplifting and veeeery high energy. Fischerspooner on prozac and locked in a room with big drums, hammering away.
09. Ritz 107 - 4:36
Enter time machine and exit in the 17th century where you are asked to play a tune fit for the time on your keyboard, so you create a classically sounding clavichord tune and sing a slow, epic ballad. To add some drama, you add some strings, real and a string sounding buzzing synth. The track is gentle and crisp and light as air. Dreamy and soft. Imagine this as a soundtrack for times when snow is falling softly on an already frozen landscape.
10. All We Are - 4:40
We start with notes of a piano, drifting by followed by pauses. Then the gaps are slowly filled up by drums and real percussion. The sound that made you think you were in for a ballad pick up and create a mid-tempo song. Soft and muted in the beginning. And then the chorus enters with a country-sounding guitar and lush piano sounds which make you think Air, Zero 7 and Fischerspooner were at a festival and the first two acts couldn't make it and FS was asked to fill the gap. Epic sound, lush, friendly and inviting. Like a warm blanket. "We are as one and one is all we are!" And who would think a fuzz bleep would mix so well with a harp and violins. Breahttaking climax!
11. Circle (Vision Creation New Sun) - 6:34
Deja vu opens this track, it slowly picks up pace and then...well, I'll just not tell you too much, this one you need to experience for yourself. Dance-driven, weird, catchy and yet odd. A perfect closing track though and the best sound to close a record with, especially a record like this, I've ever heard! ( for the music-freaks, think Super Furry Animals, No Sympathy! )
Well, this album is just perfect and mark my words, this will be a HUGE record this year. I can't to see what beauty's will get the honour of being released of singles with the full video treatment as there is much to choose from. They have grown and built on their sound and really made a new interesting sound that is still Fischerspooner but not an easy repetition or another copy of the electroclash trick we heard so many bands do. I applaud Fischerspooner for this album!
ROB
The new direction FS has taken becomes quite clear instantly. It's the FS we know, but now they use real instruments and guitars frequently, to create a richer and warmer sound. Combined with trademark bleeps and electro sounds. But it's all much more 80's remniscent and still undeniably linked to the present. This blows both of the previously released remixes COMPLETELY out of the water. It starts out with an unearthy looped soft bubble bleep and soon the beat, percussion is mixed in and then FS enters the building. But this time like I said with real guitars. Btw, the real track is much faster paced then the remixes. It has a very classic feel. During the break a wonderfull electrobuzz melody is added. The song really builds to a breathtaking climax in which rock and electro work to an overwhelming opening. We are home!
02. Cloud - 3:32
Guitar...stop...guitar, ride into song. Mirwais co-produced this song. But don't think you'll hear American Life like sounds though. No sir! Guitars are there and electro sounds, but that's it. It's more flowing and full, the sounds themselves flow from one to the other, like the chorus and the verses. "I lost myself" Casey sings over a wallpaper of hi-pitch buzzing melodies. More pop then you'd expect from FS.
03. Never Win - 3:59
The influence isn't hard to discover. Everyone who hears this Mirwais produced track has one thing on his mind. Pink Floyd. A perfect mix of guitars, electro and poppy melody/vocals. Overall the slap-bass handclap beat combined with the Pink Floyd influence works like a charm. "good or bad, it's all gonna add up in the end, but you can never win" - break - and then sonically we enter an arcade game. Richly flavoured bleeps and ploinks mix into the fantastic climax. Make it a single and watch the world dance to it all through the summer!
04. A Kick In The Teeth - 4:21
The intro reminded me of the intro of "Emerge". The dark slowly louder sound of a looped bubble bleep. But then, guitars and a soft voice. And we are back in arcade game land again. Imagine an arcade game that tells you a sad story, like an epic digital drama, and then it builds to a uplifting chorus, rich in sound. And we return to a sparse sound for another verse. This cycle repeats itself to create a wonderfull feeling of melancholy for the 21st century. This might be the best combination of real percussion and an electronically created beat so far. It makes your heart soar.
05. Everything To Gain - 4:13
Starts with a menacing sound of a constant high speed bleep. Then hard real percussion is added and a slightly unsettling organ sound. Vocals are echoing while sighs slide in and out. This is yet more proof that FS wanted to combine their electronic toolkit with real live instruments and see what would happen. Kind of unsettling and weird, yet catchy.
06. We Need A War - 3:40
Lyrics by the late Susan Sontag, and sounds that are apparently based on the idea of recreating the percussion of "Sympathy For The Devil" digitally. Very beat driven, high energy and a beautiful epic guitar sound in the middle with a fantastic choris line produced by dreamy female vocals. Building up to an impressive sonic climax in which all come together! The guitars are definately the highlight in this track.
07. Wednesday - 3:27
As the song begins it's like you are transported back to the days of disco and "Ring My Bell" is stuck in the cd-player. Ploink! guitar-riffs and drums are added. Casey repeats "I feel like I'm still there". I can't help but feel how much richer and fuller the sound of this album is compared to FS's first album. They seem to have grabbed Disco by the neck and shoved rock, punk and electro down it's throat, and it like what it tasted like!
08. Happy - 4:00
Stomping beat/percussion from the get-go. Soon bleeps are added and Fischerspooner are in overdrive again. Very full sound, with a very deep slapbass! Very happy feeling and uplifting and veeeery high energy. Fischerspooner on prozac and locked in a room with big drums, hammering away.
09. Ritz 107 - 4:36
Enter time machine and exit in the 17th century where you are asked to play a tune fit for the time on your keyboard, so you create a classically sounding clavichord tune and sing a slow, epic ballad. To add some drama, you add some strings, real and a string sounding buzzing synth. The track is gentle and crisp and light as air. Dreamy and soft. Imagine this as a soundtrack for times when snow is falling softly on an already frozen landscape.
10. All We Are - 4:40
We start with notes of a piano, drifting by followed by pauses. Then the gaps are slowly filled up by drums and real percussion. The sound that made you think you were in for a ballad pick up and create a mid-tempo song. Soft and muted in the beginning. And then the chorus enters with a country-sounding guitar and lush piano sounds which make you think Air, Zero 7 and Fischerspooner were at a festival and the first two acts couldn't make it and FS was asked to fill the gap. Epic sound, lush, friendly and inviting. Like a warm blanket. "We are as one and one is all we are!" And who would think a fuzz bleep would mix so well with a harp and violins. Breahttaking climax!
11. Circle (Vision Creation New Sun) - 6:34
Deja vu opens this track, it slowly picks up pace and then...well, I'll just not tell you too much, this one you need to experience for yourself. Dance-driven, weird, catchy and yet odd. A perfect closing track though and the best sound to close a record with, especially a record like this, I've ever heard! ( for the music-freaks, think Super Furry Animals, No Sympathy! )
Well, this album is just perfect and mark my words, this will be a HUGE record this year. I can't to see what beauty's will get the honour of being released of singles with the full video treatment as there is much to choose from. They have grown and built on their sound and really made a new interesting sound that is still Fischerspooner but not an easy repetition or another copy of the electroclash trick we heard so many bands do. I applaud Fischerspooner for this album!
ROB
ik zou ook graag ff willen luisteren...
[ Bericht 29% gewijzigd door IrfieJ op 02-02-2005 21:04:00 ]
[ Bericht 29% gewijzigd door IrfieJ op 02-02-2005 21:04:00 ]
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice.
Geef jij dan eens je mening over de plaat., man!
Ik vind de plaat goed en wil graag mensen laten delen in mijn vreugde. Ik zou het ook hartstikke leuk vinden om hier met meerdere mensen over te kunnen discussiėren.
Misschien moet ik subtiel mijn mail adres in mijn profiel zetten, zodat men mij vandaar kan mailen (maw, onderhuids gebeurt het toch wel, of je dat nu fout vindt of niet)...
[ Bericht 13% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 02-02-2005 19:29:55 ]
Ik vind de plaat goed en wil graag mensen laten delen in mijn vreugde. Ik zou het ook hartstikke leuk vinden om hier met meerdere mensen over te kunnen discussiėren.
Misschien moet ik subtiel mijn mail adres in mijn profiel zetten, zodat men mij vandaar kan mailen (maw, onderhuids gebeurt het toch wel, of je dat nu fout vindt of niet)...
[ Bericht 13% gewijzigd door MadGuy op 02-02-2005 19:29:55 ]
klinkt heel erg fisherspooner...
paar tracks gehoord nog niets echt iets bijzonders gehoord... ik vind #1 nog steeds beter...
paar tracks gehoord nog niets echt iets bijzonders gehoord... ik vind #1 nog steeds beter...
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice.
oordeel niet te vroeg, heb't album nu zo'n 20 keer geluisterd, het blijft fascinerenquote:Op woensdag 2 februari 2005 21:03 schreef IrfieJ het volgende:
klinkt heel erg fisherspooner...
paar tracks gehoord nog niets echt iets bijzonders gehoord... ik vind #1 nog steeds beter...
p.s. 't is Warren Fischer met SCH ;-)
"Dit accepteren we natuurlijk niet"
Ik blijf het - in tegenstelling tot de nieuwe van Daft Punk - ook nog steeds draaien hoor. Overigens, met dank aan speurwerk van robster:
promo foto's
En de link naar de video voor 'Just Let Go':
Klikkerdeklikwatzienik
promo foto's
En de link naar de video voor 'Just Let Go':
Klikkerdeklikwatzienik
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