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Field Recordings From The Cook County Water Table

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Spacious, unhurried, evocative, atmospheric, at times mysterious. Relaxing and engaging. Great bass guitar work. Very listenable, gently melodic yet not always predictably so. The kind of fascinating, easy to take album you would want if only there was some way for you to hear it. Take the leap of faith. This is a wonderful CD that won't disappoint you. Listen to it with the lights out and let your mind wander.

This cd is hopeful and free. It is the only thing I can listen to that literally puts me in the mind of an expansive green field and perhaps a tree in the distance. The imagination of the musicians and the careful,specific direction of where the music takes you is pure genious. Influences range, but are not limited to, sound tracks from Clint Eastwood's spagetti westerns, Brazilian samba and Eno's, Music for Airports. Magical, intimate and trusting. The best part of this work is that it returns to a theme and develops ideas throughout, something rare in today's musicians who may enjoy less staying power (read virility). How sexy is that?

It's a melodic, melliflous album, that due to the kind recommendation of a good friend, even at this late date, I am loathe to take it too far away from my cd changer. It has everything: melody, sampling, nature, faux-nature, sunset and sunrise as it attributes. Yum!

If you like Miles Davis' Filles de Kilimanjaro and the second side of Brian Eno's Before and After Science, they pretty much collide in this recording by Brokeback. Perfect accompaniement for reading a book in the warm sun on a summer's afternoon.Languid, but crystalline.

En este disco Douglas McCombs se basa principalmente en su bajo de 6 cuerdas para crear una serie de paisajes y ambientes muy aéreos y espaciosos, mediante un buen trabajo técnico, con acordes, melodías, etc. Sin tener muy claro, al menos en apariencia, a dónde quiere dirigirse, la mayoría de los temas (especialmente en los que está solo) parecen una constante búsqueda, muy improvisada, sin tempo determinado, donde muchas veces cruzan ruidos ambientale, como trenes. Pero también hay canciones con más instrumentos, en extrañas combinaciones (corneta, shakers, voz, batería, varios contrabajos, órgano, etc.), donde, por el contrario, prima un ritmo más fijo y activo, con desarrollo más claro. El carácter general del disco transita, entonces, entre lo contenido (más cool), lo meditativo, lo afirmativo y lo melancólico.

Mellifluous and tranquilizing. Prepare to cast off from the shores of consciousness. Let your eyes blanklly fixate and your mind drift. Perfect for staring out a moving car window or watching clouds over head. This Cd makes me feel carefree & safe like a child in Mom's arms. Yet, I can't help but think that when I die, and look back through the years retrospectively, this Cd will be playing in the background

Repeat after me boys and girls: There is nothing wrong in being pretentious. It means doing what you feel. It means trying to create something that will solve the unanswerable questions of human existence. It's better to try than to not. This album almost solves the riddle, but they leave that to Tortoise's TNT. Ignore what the last guy said, this stuff entertwines itself with you, brings out creativity and imagination. That said, don't buy this if you already know you don't like Tortoise or the sideprojects.

I agree w/ the Mazon review. It's like the soundtrack to your last bad relationship: warm, dreamy and ultimately over.

Can you please give us some RA samples and a track list for this CD. It's been out a while now

Another fine effort by chiropratic T Jocks McEntire'd', Herndon and (insert names here). Prepare to succumb to the triple bass assault of Dougy, Joshua, and Noel. Melodic? No. Ambient? Hmmm. Thrill Jockey? You bet'cha! These are fine artists playing in the shallow end of the pool they have excavated. The entire Chicago crew needs to evolve their sound if they expect anyone to care. Spinal reallignment up your arse from the Brokebackstreet Boys! Wanna be on their next album just move to Wicker Park and stop bathin'. But on a serious note I recommend this album to all those who wish they too lived in Chicago and have attained intellectual superiority. Musicologists will study this album for years. The bes' thing since Shepards Pie, Mates!