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	Library tapes Hstluft Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop Make Mine Music are proud to announce the first release on the label by Library Tapes whose previous two albums on Resonant received widespread critical acclaim for what Boomkat called their personal take on the `home list... more » « less
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All Artists: Library tapes
Title: Hstluft
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Make Mine Music
Release Date: 3/23/2010
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5024545468922

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Album Description

Make Mine Music are proud to announce the first release on the label by Library Tapes whose previous two albums on Resonant received widespread critical acclaim for what Boomkat called their personal take on the `home listening' genre midway between classical ambient & minimalist electronica. Library Tapes' new album is called H"stluft & is their strongest to date. Released less than a year after their second album Feelings for Something Lost H"stluft was made by David Wenng

CD Reviews

Melody and memory

Alec Gardner | Beijing, PRC | 03/19/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"When listening to Library Tapes' "Höstluft" I was thoroughly entranced and my mind wondered to old memories of place and reflection ... looking through dusty photo albums, riding in train cars, early morning drives, laying down in the back of a car as a child.

The mechanical clicks and rhythmic hums of lo-fi field recordings mixed with the reverb bright piano have an interesting and pacifying effect that puts the audience in two different locations.

In the first, the listener can imagine being in the room beside the piano player, looking over his shoulder from behind the bench and eavesdropping into his interplay with thought and instrument. In this place, it is as if the memories and thoughts of the musician are directly connected to the strings of the piano.

Simultaneously, the listener is moved to the second place, transported to an old train car where the piano melodies soundtrack the sights outside the window.

This album is truly beautiful and absorbing, and presents an interesting interaction of melody and memory."