C'mon

C'mon Artist: Town & Country
Label: Thrill Jockey
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 790377011425
EAN: 0790377011425
ASIN: B00005Y0RH


Release Date: 2002-02-19

C'mon


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Tracks:

  1. Going to Kamakura
  2. I'm appealing
  3. Garden
  4. The Bells
  5. I Am So Very Cold
  6. Palms
  7. Bookmobile

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On <I>C'mon</I>, Town and Country use pattern music techniques, song form, and other approaches to create low-key acoustic chamber works. String bass, guitar, bass clarinet, cornet, celeste, and chimes play key roles in the group's patient compositions. <I>C'mon</I> evokes Morton Feldman in at least a couple of ways. Like that great composer's work, the music of Town and Country has a transparent quality that allows every tone to be clearly glimpsed, and the group isn't afraid to repeat tones or phrases again and again, forcing the listener to dwell upon their shape and substance. The album's closing track, "Bookmobile," betrays an influence not heard on the rest of the disc: African pop music. It makes sense that Town and Country would be attracted to the hypnotic qualities of that genre, but looping guitar lines are just a starting point for the eight-minute piece. The opening morphs into a jazzy section before shifting into a quiet part punctuated by a repeating bass clarinet figure, which in turn gives way to a layered passage topped by cornet. At times, <I>C'mon</I> flirts with blandness, but there are enough compositional left turns to keep things engaging. <I>--Fred Cisterna</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars chamber drone.......2002-02-23

excellent. "c'mon" is a very satisfying, challenging record that continues the tone set on the final track on "it all has to do with it". a variety of acoustic instruments pendulum between quiet, meditative (even pastoral) movements and somewhat frantic, repetetive exercises where fractions of degrees off of the initial trajectory result in wildly variant destinations. sometimes within the same song.

"it all has to do with it" was one of my favorite records of last year (yeah, yeah, it came out in 2000. i didn't get it till early 2001. shut up, you.) and i can tell after only a half dozen listens that "c'mon" is going to be just as important to me.

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