Saturday, 15 March 2008Alaska in Winter / Marianne Dissard Artist: Alaska In Winter / Marianne Dissard Title: Close Your Eyes - We Are Blind / Trop Exprés Label: Regular Beat Recording Co. Country of Origin: United Kingdom (UK) Quantity Pressed: 500 (white) Release Date: 7th Apr 2008 This single is about a week away, and be on the lookout for it, I don't think either of these tracks will show up on anything else. Both of these talents keep serious company which will insure this will sell out immediately. Alaska in winter is primarily Brandon Bethancourt with a variety of contributors. On this 7" A side track 'Close your eyes', he's joined most notably by wunderkind Zack Condon of Beirut, who lends his trademark vocals and ukulele to this track at first, which is great enough, but then it makes a drastic u-turn from his organic orchestral sound right away with the foreign sounding drum machines and electronics. Sounding something like another conceptual Postal Service project, his voice layers on itself and harmonizes to create a rolling old sing along that seems like a long lost cover of some indigenous lost hymn. Brandon literally spent a winter in Alaska isolated with a laptop to create the full length on Regular Beat records, the result has combines these classic elements with the laptop to walk the line between familiar and surprising. The B-side features Marianne Dissard, a french native who has since been transplanted in the American west. She's a renaissance woman, performance artist, documentary filmmaker and here recording artist. This is an interesting combination of Edith Piaf fronting Calexico, the western influence is evident musically in slow acoustic strumming with moody violins and a restrained half rolled snare drum. Her vocals are mixed up front and separate from the instrument sound, she's lost in echo and it's something like Nico's accented talk, but coming from a talented singer. Surprisingly this single highlights the similarities in the human experience from the middle of the snowbound wilderness to the tumbleweed filled desert. Jason Dean Labels: alaska in winter, marianne dissard, regular beat recording co
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