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Bevel
Phoenician Terrane
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Paradiso 1491
2. Low Income Glade
3. Mirandola Suite
4. Little Red One
5. Since the World
6. In Solitude
7. The Purchase
8. A Forest Ends
9. Balustrada
10. Lezah Rof
11. Vice Versa (Protect What You Love)
12. Crime Produces Prejudice
13. Coronation Day
14. Quiet Resort II

CD Details

All Artists: Bevel
Title: Phoenician Terrane
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Contraphonic
Release Date: 10/9/2007
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 616892910725

Synopsis

Album Description

"One of those rare artists who just might be able to add something to the American folk tradition." -- Devil in the Woods BEVEL is the solo project of Via Nuon, a Chicago-based artist who employs a uniquely literary approach to the music he creates. A contributor to Edith Frost and Simon Joyner, and a member of the groups Drunk and Manishevitz, Nuon executes his dreamlike psych-folk with the care and fragility of a cartographer. Phoenician Terrane, BEVEL's first release for Contraphonic, is an album of densely orchestrated American wonder. This is the Great American Songbook as discovered by the descendants of Harry Partch and Charles Ives upon a rock in the sand. Languidly plucked guitar lines pave trails amongst violin and flute embellishments, and transient Gypsy-laden tones swash about warm synthesizers, with everything cast in a soft, psychedelic haze. Assembled with a cast of contributors featuring members of Califone. Boxhead Ensemble, and Manishevitz, Phoenician Terrane is BEVEL's finest work to date.

CD Reviews

Cinematic chamber-folk

T. M. Orange | 10/23/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is the fourth recording from Via Nuon (formerly of Drunk) under the Bevel moniker and his first for Chicago's Contraphonic label (the previous were with Jagjaguwar). This is a more lushly orchestrated, dare I say chamber-music approach to psych folk than Califone (Tim Rutili guests here) or Iron & Wine -- violins and flutes color and fill in the landscape whose main contours are provided by treated acoustic guitars and atmospherics. The track lengths are also significant: between the more conventional-length tracks come these often stunning miniatures, cinematic studies if you will. It's as if Brian Eno's Music for Films were a filter through which Our Endless Numbered Days has been passed. Nuon's vocals sound more contrived and quavery than Sam Beam's, or Rutili's for that matter -- and they are a frequent point for Bevel's critics like those over at pitchfork. I would simply remind critics and potential listeners alike that Ian Curtis of Joy Division did not have a "great" voice either. (And Track 10 here is very much in the manner of JD's "Atmospheres.") This is a carefully crafted and sequenced effort that will grown on you and make you seek out more."