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Tarentel
Paper White/Big Black Square
Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock

Track Listings (4) - Disc #1
1. Isalais Straight
2. Open Letter to Hummingbirds
3. Golden State Overnight
4. Paper White

CD Details

All Artists: Tarentel
Title: Paper White/Big Black Square
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: 3d
Release Date: 2/7/2005
Album Type: Import
Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 656605307626, 4562147290172, 669910879801

Synopsis

Album Description

If last year?s breakthrough album 'We Move Through Weather' was Tarentel?s high water mark, then these two companion EPs could be interpreted as the rise and fall of that flood. The same recording sessions are responsible for all three releases: 'Paper White' represents the beginning, 'We Move Through Weather' is the inspired centerpiece, and the 43-minute 'Big Black Square' signals the smoky ending. Played in succession, the three releases chart Tarentel?s journey from dynamic, guitar-driven instrumentalists to perpetually curious treasure hunters of the mysterious sounds that most of us take for granted. If this were the end of Tarentel?s story, they would have enough riches to last a lifetime. Eight years into their career, however, it seems they?ve only just begun.

CD Reviews

Explosive sounds from the exceptional Tarentel

RDS | Toronto, Canada | 01/19/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As a fairly brief four-track EP, Tarentel's Paper White is a concise and explosive expression of the band's ever-evolving sound, and one of their finest releases to date. The addition of various horns and woodwinds (thanks the addition of Steve Dye to the fold and his arsenal of homemade instruments) to their standard lineup of guitars, bass and drums adds an intense allure and complexity to their already burgeoning, thunderous yet melodic compositions (call it instrumental rock, post-rock, whatever), which are both hypnotic and challenging all at once. Bewitching, and highly recommended."

Trading experimentation with laziness

IRate | 01/01/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"2 1/2

Along with their bloated full length WMTW, Tarentel's Paper White EP signified the end of a formerly intoxicating band's melodic enslavement into something far clunkier and uninspired. Whatever point the group decided to hop around to undercooked tempos while letting nearly all that used to be musically sublime dry out around heroin drumming was truly the nail in this promising band's artistic coffin."

Apollo/Dionysus...

Troy R McGee, Jr. | Boise, ID. | 05/16/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"that's how I see this. These two Ep's have the same feel, although SQUARE is vastly different from WHITE. I guess they came from the same sessions: and it's not like "From Bone to Satellite"(which I think is their best), but has a nice spacious feel which, in combination with the truly improvisatory nature of these two, makes their music at this period

downright interesting."