Re: (313) Amp Fiddler [Marketing and music taste]
Oh- and to change topic a little bit, I just listened to AMp Fiddler album for the first time this morning (yeah- I've been talking without hearing- flame away), but my assumptions were absolutely correct about the record. Its basically smooth jazz. OK- maybe that's harsh, but its absolutely 100% indebted to 70's funk and soul music. There's not even an attempt to turn these songs out into something new. Not to say I dont like it. It will definately hold a certain place in my catalog (dinner party music), but there is absolutely nothing that's going to make me go back and want to hear it again in order to explore things i might have missed (the matt dear album had me going back for weeks on end as it finally grew and bloosomed in my brain). My thoughts exactly...it's good stuff for sure, but not something that's got me all excited like some folks seem to be. Each to their own I guess
Re: (313) Amp Fiddler [Marketing and music taste]
- Original Message - From: Mark S. Krüx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:34 PM Subject: Re: (313) Amp Fiddler [Marketing and music taste] My thoughts exactly...it's good stuff for sure, but not something that's got me all excited like some folks seem to be. I agree it's not innovative really. I do think he brings his own sound out very well though, and I think it's remarkably solid straight through. For that matter, I don't think anything he's done has been terribly innovative. And I guess I wouldn't say anything I've bought in the last few years has sounded all that groundbreaking. At best most of it is just a further distillation/combination of existing sounds. But I don't really see that as a bad thing. For the record, it is definitely something that's grown on me with repeated listens. Tristan === http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
