Comments on: Caleidoscoop review Matt Bartram’s “Left to Memory” http://driftingfalling.com/blog/2009/10/29/caleidoscoop-review-matt-bartrams-left-to-memory/ a small musical insurgency Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:22:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jon http://driftingfalling.com/blog/2009/10/29/caleidoscoop-review-matt-bartrams-left-to-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Jon Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:38:29 +0000 http://www.driftingfalling.com/?p=324#comment-552 Thanks, Tom. It's in Dutch. Thanks, Tom. It’s in Dutch.

]]> By: Tom http://driftingfalling.com/blog/2009/10/29/caleidoscoop-review-matt-bartrams-left-to-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-551 Tom Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:32:50 +0000 http://www.driftingfalling.com/?p=324#comment-551 Excellent review and translation. I'm afraid my high school German has gone by the wayside. Terrific job. Excellent review and translation. I’m afraid my high school German has gone by the wayside. Terrific job.

]]> By: Jon http://driftingfalling.com/blog/2009/10/29/caleidoscoop-review-matt-bartrams-left-to-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Jon Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:34:55 +0000 http://www.driftingfalling.com/?p=324#comment-550 Thanks for the translation Emiel! Kind regards, Jon Thanks for the translation Emiel!

Kind regards,
Jon

]]> By: Emiel http://driftingfalling.com/blog/2009/10/29/caleidoscoop-review-matt-bartrams-left-to-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-549 Emiel Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:26:47 +0000 http://www.driftingfalling.com/?p=324#comment-549 I wish my English was a little better, but this is more or less what the review says (I hope;): The perfectly named Drifting Falling label with their large amount of dreamy music is one to keep an eye on. So is British musician Matt Bartram, who gave us some great shoegaze the past 9 years with his bands Air Formation and The Static Silence. He's from the second wave of shoegaze and really excels in that for years now. His second solo album Left To Memory, where he plays and sings everything by himself, proves this. On one track, he gets help from his friend Christian Savill (Slowdive, Monster Movie) on the 12-string guitar. He puts on these wonderfully, warm noisefilled guitar walls, which, beside Air Formation, remind me of Slowdive and Flying Saucer Attack. In the parts where percussion and noise have the upper hand you can also hear the sound of The Jesus And Mary Chain. If you also take the melancholic sweetness of House Of Love, the desolate swarming guitars of Roy Montgomery and the rarefied of Sigur Rós, interlaced with a hint of streaming sex-music of Cocteau Twins, and you’ll have a complete picture. A ‘picture’ that sounds like excellent music, I would say. I don’t need to make it any better than that. I wish my English was a little better, but this is more or less what the review says (I hope;):

The perfectly named Drifting Falling label with their large amount of dreamy music is one to keep an eye on. So is British musician Matt Bartram, who gave us some great shoegaze the past 9 years with his bands Air Formation and The Static Silence. He’s from the second wave of shoegaze and really excels in that for years now. His second solo album Left To Memory, where he plays and sings everything by himself, proves this. On one track, he gets help from his friend Christian Savill (Slowdive, Monster Movie) on the 12-string guitar.
He puts on these wonderfully, warm noisefilled guitar walls, which, beside Air Formation, remind me of Slowdive and Flying Saucer Attack. In the parts where percussion and noise have the upper hand you can also hear the sound of The Jesus And Mary Chain. If you also take the melancholic sweetness of House Of Love, the desolate swarming guitars of Roy Montgomery and the rarefied of Sigur Rós, interlaced with a hint of streaming sex-music of Cocteau Twins, and you’ll have a complete picture. A ‘picture’ that sounds like excellent music, I would say. I don’t need to make it any better than that.

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