| Product Summary | | Label: Caroline Distribution | | UPC: 00796441804221 | | Release Date: 5/30/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60517848 | | Item#: M6RRV9 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Picture Start ~ Fontanelle |  | | 2. Niagara ~ Fontanelle | | | 3. Reflex Vs Parallax ~ Fontanelle | | | 4. Telephone Fade, The ~ Fontanelle | | | 5. 29th & Going ~ Fontanelle | | | 6. Counterweight ~ Fontanelle | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Fontanelle: Andy Brown (Moog synthesizer); Matt Morgan (drums); Rex Ritter, Paul Dickow, Michael Faeth, Charlie Smyth, Brian Foote. | | Personnel: Charlie Smyth, Brian Foote (guitar, electric piano); Rex Ritter (guitar); Andy Brown (electric piano); Paul Dickow (Farfisa); Mat Morgan, Michael Faeth (drums). | | Recording information: Magnetic Park, Portland, OR. | | Fontanelle is descended from the late, lamented US space-rock outfit Jessamine, but while there are some elements of the latter on Fontanelle's debut album, this is no cosmic excursion. There's a slight trippiness to these improvisation-oriented instrumentals, accented by the occasional electronic gurgle, but Fontanelle leans closer to the neo-jazz electronica of Tortoise than the acid spaciness of Hawkwind. | | There's an angularity to these tracks, highlighted by a ubiquitous electric piano that conjures echoes of IN A SILENT WAY-era Miles Davis, moving the music closer to the structural progressivism of post-rock. Fontanelle's sound may bear traces of the past in its vintage jazz-rock and electronic music references, but somehow it still seems undeniably contemporary. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/30/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 8042 | | Label : Kranky | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 43m : 15s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00796441804221 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Magnet (8-9/00, p.74)
- "...Intricate jazz/rock fusion [which is] decisive and impressive..."CMJ (6/19/00, p.24)
- "...It weaves complex, yet compelling instrumentals that are rock only in instrumentation..." |
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