Minotaur Shock will enter your life, and never leave. This album portrays perfectly some of the possible combinations between acoustic and electronic music. At first I couldn't believe that what I was hearing was electronic.
The composition is done mostly with drum machines with recorded ... Read review
Advantages: composition, sound quality, progression Disadvantages: fusion might be difficult to understand
Minotaur Shock will enter your life, and never leave. This album portrays perfectly some of the possible combinations between acoustic and electronic music. At first I couldn't believe that what I was hearing was electronic.
The composition is done mostly with drum machines with recorded woodwinds and guitar. The recorded acoustic tracks are then remixed and sychronized with the electronic components, resulting in a soothing ... ...this album is the way both electronic apologists and acoustic-lovers can retain interesting aspects from the composition. For example, some of the beats are a bit more complicated than the usual 4 by 4 rhythms used in similar styles, while the sound quality of the woodwinds is preserved impeccably.
"Muesli" is the kind of song you can listen to for hours. Of course I believe firmly the artist intended the album to be heard ... more
Minotaur Shock will enter your life, and never leave. This album portrays perfectly some of the possible combinations between acoustic and electronic music. At first I couldn't believe that what I was hearing was electronic.
The composition is done mostly with drum machines with recorded woodwinds and guitar. The recorded acoustic tracks are then remixed and sychronized with the electronic components, resulting in a soothing easy-to-listen meditative sound. I think the greatest appeal of this album is the way both electronic apologists and acoustic-lovers can retain interesting aspects from the composition. For example, some of the beats are a bit more complicated than the usual 4 by 4 rhythms used in similar styles, while the sound quality of the woodwinds is preserved impeccably.
"Muesli" is the kind of song you can listen to for hours. Of course I believe firmly the artist intended the album to be heard from beginning to end, as there is a sense of progression throughout.
Some songs to check out are "Hilly", and "(She's in) Drydock Now", if you like those three I mentioned, it's worth a buy.
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Product details
Title
Maritime [Digipak]
Performer
Minotaur Shock
Genre
R&B
Sub Genre
Dance
Release Date
13/06/2005
Original Release Year
2005
Label / Distributor
4AD / PIAS UK/Sony DADC
Producer
David Edwards
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
652637251128
Catalogue Number
CAD 2511CD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Minotaur Shock: David Edwards (vocals, various instruments); Megan Childs, Martin Lanchester (violin); Emily Wakefield (flute, clarinet). Recording information: 2003 - 2005. For his full-length 4AD debut, "Folktronica" artist David Edwards (aka Minotaur Shock) offers a concept album of sorts built around nautical themes and glitchy instrumental sea chanteys for the 21st century. Like fellow one-man-band contemporaries Four Tet and Caribou, Edwards inventively blends acoustic instrumentation with prominent keyboard lines and programmed beats, creating a warm, inviting aesthetic that nods to breezy U.K. folk and burbling synth-pop alike on tracks such as the buoyant, shuffling "Muesli" and the gently propulsive "Vigo Bay."
Album Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (No. 833, p.79) - "...[D]raws impressively from the far-flung fields of folk, classical, and new wave...." - Grade: B Mojo (p.101) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]his is chic pop electronica..." The Wire (p.61) - "[T]his music's shoreline is made up of instrumental delicacy and subtle arrangements, which burble, froth and foam washing over the listener with an insistent but gentle force."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Muesli
2.
She's In Dry Dock Now
3.
Vigo Bay
4.
Six Foolish Fishermen
5.
Hilly
6.
Twosley
7.
Somebody Once Told Me It Existed But They Never Found It
8.
Luck Shield
9.
Mistaken Tourist
10.
Broads
11.
Four Magpies
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12/06/2005
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