Visitor

Artist: Onelinedrawing
Label: Jade Tree
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 792258107623
EAN: 0792258107623
ASIN: B000063WYU

Release Date: 2002-05-14

Visitor

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Tracks:

Um
Bitte Ein Kuss
But It Was Close
Smile
Perfect Pair
Candle Song
Yr Letter
Why Are We Fighting?
Visitor
Softbelly
Sixes

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Album Description

Onelinedrawing is Jonah Matranga, singer/songwriter of New End Original and former singer/songwriter of Far. Visitor continues his explorations into private music making that sounds as if you're in the artist's bedroom witnessing a personalized performance made from voice, guitar, bass, feedback and found sounds. 11 tracks. Digipak.

Customer Reviews:

Pretty good.......2005-12-15

music so personal you can hear the bedroom in the background. Ok, not really, but close. There's a very authentic lo-fi sound here, but it does nothing to detract from the songs. It actually draws you in. The songs are good. Recommended if you like Dashboard's quiter moments.

Also, check out Owen if you like this disc. He's along the same lines and a personal favorite.

A Jonah Matranga Masterpiece.......2005-11-22

Of the very extended Jonah Matranga discography, there are definitely a few standouts amongst the many projects which Jonah has linked himself to. "Visitor" is one of those standouts. The time and effort put into this album is apparent all throughout the record, as Jonah crafts some of the best songs he's ever written (with a band or without), and each plays off each other with a certain showmanship that makes each following track, just as good, if not better than the last. The sonic atmosphere that Jonah can paint with his use of electronics, keyboards, sampling, piano, or simply just an acoustic guitar is unparalleled by most artists. "Visitor" is an honest and sincere album, and one of the best indie/emo albums I've ever heard, and is a must for all Jonah fans, and indie fans alike.

One of the things I love about this album is the balance that it uses. Songs can range from being upbeat anthems with guitars and electronic drums, like "Bitte Ein Kuss" and "Perfect Pair", to soft acoustic ballads like "Yr Letter" and "Candle Song". Jonah's amazing voices creates great soundscapes that wrap around the listener, and make you feel like part of the music. This is evident throughout every track found on the album. Very few vocalists can capture your attention and hold it the way Jonah does. The lyrics are another amazing aspect of the album. Being so amazingly honest and sincere, it makes listening to songs like "Smile" and "Why Are We Fighting" such a pleasurable experience. Playing the album the entire way through is so easy, and will most likely require you to repeat it many times, because from the first instant you will be hooked. My favorite songs on the album though seem to be the ones which find Jonah backing himself only with an acoustic guitar, particularly "Yr Letter", which is an acoustic heartbreaker which anyone can relate to. I'll go out on a limb as saying "Yr Letter" is my all-time favorite acoustic song. The lyrics, soft violins, driving guitar, Jonah's voice, and the melodic atmosphere all combine to create a feeling that can't be mimicked. You just feel so connected to the songs and lyrical topics which Jonah dabbles into. This makes this album worth hearing. The fact that every song is a keeper is just icing on the cake.

I highly recommend "Visitor" to all Jonah Matranga fans. This is definitely one of his best efforts, and the best Onelinedrawing album you can get. More mature than the Sketchy Eps, and a little less ambitious and experimental than "The Volunteers", "Visitor" is a highlight of the indie genre, and it proves that honest musicians are still out there making good music. I can listen to this album over and over on repeat, and never get bored, and I'm sure you will feel the same after hearing it. Fans of Jonah or any of his projects will instantly fall in love with the melodies, amazing lyrics and heartfelt honest exhibited on this cd. Definitely a gem.

Sorry Jonah.......2005-03-15

First of all, I'm a big fan of Jonah and especially of Far. After purchasing all of the Onelinedrawing E.P.s and absolutely loving them, I had high hopes for the first full-length release. While there are some really great songs on here, such as "Yr Letter" and "Um...", there is something tedious about listening to the album as a whole. Some of the songs are just sub-par. Although I know very little about the making of this album, I get the impression that on some level maybe Jonah was a bit intimidated by the task of filling up a full-length OLD CD (understandable considering the emotion involved). It sounds like he took the first batch of songs to come into his head and committed to them regardless of whether or not they were up to the standards of his previous work. If this is somewhat true, then there was little or no filter to sift the weaker songs from the great ones. The end result sounds like a fantastic E.P. padded songs not cut out for an official release.

In short, good listening for the hardcore Jonah fans but not recommended as an introduction to OLD.

The Visitor Lands.......2003-10-22

Having grown up in Sacramento and being exposed to the music of onelinedrawing's wizard behind the curtain, Jonah Matranga, I may be somewhat biased in this opinion. No, lets not call it biased, lets call it...educated. There's no way to experience an artist like seeing him play in a park right before the 4th of July, or watching him cramped in a little room called Old Ironsides announcing that he just jumped in the Sacramento river (on a freezing day in Winter).
That being said, all too often our favorite local artists sound great on stage but fail to reproduce the effect in the studio. Onelinedrawing has quietly put out e.p.'s of experimental home recording, learning to create the perfect masterpiece of bedroom pop right under our ears.
Onelinedrawing is a disarming experience. The vocals are uninhibited, completely up in the air for you to grab and savor. On this album every track is a poetic experience. The essence of the song cannot be boiled down to instrumentation, melody, vocals, and lyrics: they instead come together to create the perfect painting of sound, the perfect picture of real life and human emotions.
Whether he sings about old lovers, past regrets, uncontrollable love, love in any form, onelinedrawing has one message: I just want to see you smile.
And truly, with a gift like this, onelinedrawing makes it so easy sometimes.

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