Volume 1

Artist: Orange Twin Field Works Label: Orange Twin Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Live Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 656605600321 EAN: 0656605600321 ASIN: B00005M09C Release Date: 2001-06-19

Listmania:

1. The World of Neutral Milk Hotel
2. best of the balkans

Tracks:

1. Untitled

Similar Items:

1. Live at Jittery Joe's
2. Everything Is
3. Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3) (33 1/3)
4. On Avery Island
5. Circulatory System

Customer Reviews:

this is *bulgarian* music.......2003-04-12

...weave in and out of a foreign festival..........2002-10-30

beautifully done.......2001-10-18

- there aren't any commercially available recordings of this festival, though you can find single tracks on various CDs like Yves Moreau's "Village Music" compilations.

- as a field recording, it's is a bit different because you can hear the mood of the festival here and there... horns from the street, people participating. songs flow in and out of each other due to some deft editing, so it's not one stage-recorded snippet after another.

- the songs are great quality and represent some of the region's most beautiful sounds... "flat" Balkan-style folk singing, bells and bagpipes (including, i think, an orchestra called Sto Gaidi, "100 bagpipes"), accordions, unusual strings and percussion and Turk-sounding wind instruments i can never identify, 7/8 and 9/8 time signatures.

i didn't put five stars because many might find it dissonant (tho some of us like that), because there are no liner notes or track separations, and because given my horrendous bias toward the engineer, i figured i'd lop one off the top just in case.

i feel a bit sheepish but i must admit i assumed the disc was some sort of random side project, but it's obvious that a lot of thought, experience and passion went into it. i'm glad fans of neutral milk hotel will check it out, but it's a valuable recording in its own right. maybe fans of bulgarian and balkan music will check out jeff mangum's other stuff. i'd love to be a fly on the wall for the first spin of Two Headed Boy.

The Giant Track.......2001-08-16

All that said, the music itself is interesting. It is recorded live, at what sounds like a festival. The quality is good, but the structures and sounds you will be hearing are quite different from any western music you've heard.

So for adventurous fans of Hungarian music or for Neutral Milk Hotel fans who need to understand the roots of their favorite band, this is a worthwhile purchase.

ONE WARNING: It says "Edited by Jeff Mangum" but I'm not sure what "editing" actually took place. The CD is one large and long track that fills the entire cd. Don't expect to have separated songs. It doesn't hurt the album that much, but it's awkward, and potential buyers deserve to know.

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