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Portishead - Dummy

Portishead - Dummy

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Brief Description

Item#: 2529909
    Disc 1:
    • Mysterons
    • Sour Times
    • Strangers
    • It Could Be Sweet
    • Wandering Star
    • It`s a Fire
    • Numb
    • Roads
    • Pedestal
    • Biscuit
    • Glory Box
 
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Artist:
Portishead
UPC:
042282855329
Description:
Portishead: Beth Gibbons (vocals); Adrian Utley (guitar, Hammond organ, bass, Theremin); Geoff Barrow (Fender Rhodes piano, drums, programming).
Additional personnel: Strings Unlimited (strings); Dave McDonald (nose flute); Andy Hague (trumpet); Neil Solman (Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond organ); Gary Baldwin (Hammond organ); Clive Deamer (drums); Richard Newell (programming).
Recorded at State Of The Art and Coach House Studios, Bristol, England.
Personnel: Beth Gibbons (vocals); Adrian Utley (guitar, Theremin); Andy Hague (trumpet); Geoff Barrow (Fender Rhodes piano, drums, programming); Neil Solman (Fender Rhodes piano); Clive Deamer (drums); Richard Newell (programming, drum programming).
Audio Mixers: Geoff Barrow; Adrian Utley.
Recording information: Coach House Studios, Bristol, England; State of Art.
Named for a town near Bristol, England, Portishead is a British dance band that grabs ideas from all over the mod pop world (spaghetti Western guitars, turntable scratching, melancholy soul vocals, atmospheric organs, house beats) and stirs them into spacey, dub-like productions that sound like a dance club in the middle of a "Twin Peaks" dream. You could call it surreal hip-hop pop. But if the beats on the band`s debut album achieve a kind of trance-like static, the songs themselves reach for something more rousing. With understated lyrics and overstated melodies, singer Beth Gibbons and bandleader Geoff Barrow write insinuatingly melancholy dance ballads that ebb and flow like waves through rustling waters. Organs quaver in quiet tremolos, guitars emit squiggles and turntables hiccup, while Gibbons, in a high, cutting voice that evokes a less breathy Sinead O`Connor, sings songs of longing and heartbreak with equally palpable emotion.
Track Listing:
  • DISC 1
    1. Mysterons
    2. Sour Times
    3. Strangers
    4. It Could Be Sweet
    5. Wandering Star
    6. It`s a Fire
    7. Numb
    8. Roads
    9. Pedestal
    10. Biscuit
    11. Glory Box

    • Album Information

    Release Date:
    10/18/1994
    Type:
    Performer
    Genre:
    Electronic
    Subgenre:
    Electronica
    Label:
    Go! Discs (USA)
    Producer:
    Adrian Utley; Portishead
    Catalog Number:
    828553
    Original Release Year:
    1994
    # of Discs:
    1
    Studio/Live:
    Studio
    Mono/Stereo:
    Stereo
    Runtime:
    48 : 45

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