Hendrix, Scott

All Your Dreams Are Meaningless

IMNT 0310
2003
CD
1 disc
25.00 CAD -20%

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Radio // All Your Dreams Are Meaningless
All Your Dreams Are Meaningless
Lift With the Knees (2001), 36m32s [excerpt]
CD: No Type (2003) IMNT 0310
1 August 2004
By JLD in Fear Drop (France), August 1, 2004

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1 May 2004
By Massimo Ricci in Deep Listenings (Italy), May 1, 2004

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1 February 2004
By Rigobert Dittmann in Bad Alchemy #43 (Germany), February 1, 2004

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1 December 2003
By Mark Teppo in Earpollution (USA), December 1, 2003

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Coin Gutter’s Lullaby from All your dreams are meaningless (No Type). A musique concrète song, Lullaby mixes the soothing sounds which moms and pops like to let their wee children listen to with bursts of noise and digital fuckery. A song for the 21st century child. Well, a song for my 21st century child. This song will ensure that no matter what sort of music my soon-to-arrive son ultimately finds to annoy Dad with, I’ll have scrambled his noodle first.

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1 December 2003
By Stéphane in Autres directions (France), December 1, 2003

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“… un goût inconnu et véritablement fascinant.”

All your dreams are meaningless est un disque à écouter et à vivre. Je veux dire par là: ce n’est pas un album à poser sur la platine le temps qu’on plie son linge. Ne serait-ce que parce que le premier titre est une pièce instrumentale de trente-six minutes qui s’ouvre sur des larsens électroniques rebutants. Par la suite, Lift With the Knees (tel en est le nom) fait la part belle aux bruits divers, diversement reconnaissables (des pas… Quoi d’autre ?), aux échos incertains et, bref, à l’évasion de l’intellect. Le duo canadien Coin Gutter, formé en 2000 par Emma Hendrix et Graeme Scott (Vancouver), fait preuve d’un talent certain pour nous faire divaguer à l’écoute de leurs paysages audacieux, aussi revêches qu’étincelants.

Le piano et la voix de la cantatrice, multipliés et interférés, offrent à Lullaby un goût inconnu et véritablement fascinant. Les compositions suivantes allient bruits, larsens, sons et voix, dans un grand bain (électroacoustique) lyrique et évanescent, tour à tour sombre et lumineux. Un disque qu’on redécouvre, inquisiteur, à chaque écoute, et qui se réinterprète selon notre humeur.

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1 December 2003
By Deanna Radford in Stylus Magazine (Canada), December 1, 2003

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“… sonic intensity and ultimate quiet make for a highly visceral listening experience.”

Embracing a hard-nosed calling card of an album title, Coin Gutter vividly illustrates an album full of sonic peaks and valleys - all demanding of your attention. Dubbing themselves as “new land” (for Western Canada and the Prairies) creators of some musique concrète - Coin Gutter are highly adept at creating fully realized, dynamic, dark narratives all within one track. Their sounds wouldn’t be out of place on a soundtrack, and the Vancouver duo has in fact composed works for modern dance. There is a strong visual element to the sound that Coin Gutter creates: harsh at one moment, quiet, distilled and detailed the next. The crashing sonic build-up that collides into the release of sonic intensity and ultimate quiet make for a highly visceral listening experience. This detailed headphone stuff would definitely equate to an interesting live performance.

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