All Roads Lead to Salzburg

Mice Parade

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 2002)
• Original Release Date: March 19, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bubble Core
• ASIN: B0000640LP
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #57,518 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Circle 1 [BBC Session]

2. Phasen Weise

3. Freedom World Excerpt

4. All Roads Lead to Salzburg [BBC Session]

5. One Road Led to Columbia

6. Levitation [Open Air Dance Pt. 4][Live]

7. Dub Interlude #2 [Live]

8. Open Air Dance Pt. 1 [BBC Session]

9. Open Air Dance, Pt. 2 & 3

10. Open Air Dance, Pt.4

11. Circle 2

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Adam Pierce, the mastermind behind Bubble Core records, provides Mice Parade with its moniker (an anagram of his name) and continues to pursue his contemporary musical vision on All Roads Lead to Salzburg. His inter-locking, shimmering soundscapes fuse modern electronica with acoustic instruments, producing an engaging, hypnotic sound, similar to Terry Riley's In C and Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians with a pop sensibility. Mice Parade's previous recording, Ramda, had Pierce playing (and later overdubbing) all the instruments from a single studio take, whereas All Roads uses different musicians in a variety of settings. "The Levitation" and "Dub Interlude #2" are from live dates, where the musicians adequately simulate the layered studio sound. "One Road Led to Columbia" takes samples from live shows, mutating them with a computer, again using repetition as the main structural device. "Open Air Dance--Parts 3 & 4" showcases Pierce's drumming, and "Circle One" features his cheng-a Chinese zither. --Wally Shoup

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars genius, July 31, 2003

By	Daniel R Ashton (los angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

I can't believe there aren't any reviews for this album. If you have wandered here by accident, welcome to mice parade. if you are a fan of tortoise or other post-rock/jazz/experimental stuff, you will already know of this guy. It is definately genre defying. anyway, this record is a collection of live recordings broadcast for a BBC session in england, unreleased tracks etc.
Doug sharin(Him)is now a full time member of the band and I'm sure his input will push an awsome original band even further.
And don't think this is just a live record. the bbc recordings are awsome.

4.0 out of 5 stars The evolution of flow, May 14, 2006

By	IRate - See all my reviews

The mastermind behind Mice Parade is so talented, I almost feel bad for him. Despite being one of the most talented song writing drummers and despite his multi- instrumental, eclectic brilliance, his love of the beat, and particularly for dub structure clearly outshadows anything he has to offer compositionally. Perhaps that is a good thing, for few recording artists have ever attained levels of such melodic, percussion-based fluidity. For some reason though, I can't help but think what this guy would do with the proper musical companions. The diverse, often foreign instruments are utilized brilliantly (with the title track being some of Mr. Pierce's strongest writing), yet still the pacing of the drums are almost always the sun for which all other instruments revolve, somehow limiting the scope of this true musical prodigy. A pretentious complaint for one of the most amazingly organic, rhythmic journies you could fathom. Downside being? While most of the tracks are incredible, there is a little share of filler, and to market like a normal full length there is a distinct feeling of this album being a few ep's worth of stuff put together, ultimately playing like a b-sides record, that is to say the greatest one Ive ever heard.