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velvet-station-digest    Sunday, December 17 2000    Volume 03 : Number 060



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  Re: SV: [VS] 'It'll end in tears'                      [Wmvrrvrrmm@aol.com]
  Re: [VS] Recommended                                   [Wmvrrvrrmm@aol.com]

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 06:36:19 EST
From: Wmvrrvrrmm@aol.com
Subject: Re: SV: [VS] 'It'll end in tears'

In a message dated 16/12/2000 05:46:06, awalter1@prodigy.net writes:

>><< I don't have much of a problem with track 11, it does something
>>interesting with the flow of the album toward the end there.

What frustrates me about track 11, is that while all the tracks before lead 
you through their dreamworld, suddenly this wakes you up and maybe the volume 
has to be turned down and maybe I'm panicking a little because it might be 3 
a.m. and half asleep. I have to say that I'm saying this as someone who 
listens to his music on his iMac, and I'm close to the machine. I have to say 
that I haven't listened to it enough as a track on its own. And then the 
track afterwards is another mellow piece in the manner of the earlier stuff.

It's possible that the problem is I'm used to listening to music in a certain 
way, I'm used to listening to things in a way that everything on the album 
has already communicated to me before hand, and I become friends with 
everything already , so I'm comfortable with the album before I've bought it, 
and possibly people will recognise that I own the copy of an album playing 
just because of the type of sound.

One thing is I'm not presently familiar with a dreamworld where TMC's music 
exists, maybe because of all the smoke, although "Song to the siren" is a 
different thing. VB's music has the feeling of dreams about Scandinavia or 
indeed somewhere near Newfoundland, these geographical locations have caught 
my imagination before hand along with the mystical feelings because they're 
possibly beautiful empty wide open spaces.

>>I know what you mean about the male voices, and they take you
>>somewhere unexpected.

>If we're going to talk about It'll End In Tears in terms of an
>association to VB, I'll say that the title track to The Landing
>gets somewhere near the IEIT feel when it starts to unwind partway
>through that very long 10 minute or so song.  I also think of
>IEIT often when I'm listening to "Redefined."
>Maybe VB likes to end their albums in a way that makes me think
>of that old This Mortal Coil album. >>

I do understand the comparison that you make to Redefined..

It is intriguing the way that they might be trying to steer away from general 
comparisons with 4AD, and something will lead the listener back time after 
time. I remember being at a Christmas party at a local community centre, and 
I had the original version of Easy blasting away on the loudspeaker, and 
someone who was into Cocteau Twins immediatly made a comparison between them 
and Velvet Belly purely based upon that. 



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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 18:46:41 EST
From: Wmvrrvrrmm@aol.com
Subject: Re: [VS] Recommended

In a message dated 08/12/2000 13:44:32, Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk writes:

<< * Autour de Lucie - just 'discovered' them last night at a gig at the 
Elysee
Montmatre (Paris), and they were amazing! >>


They have a very nice website
<A HREF="http://www.autourdelucie.com/">http://www.autourdelucie.com/</A>

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<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/velvet_belly_uk/">The Velvet Belly Page</A>
http://www.geocities.com/velvet_belly_uk
My unofficial fansite dedicated to the Norwegian band Velvet Belly

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