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October 19, 2006
Mountaineer (I Love Type Records)
German singer/songwriter Henning Wandhoff's newly formed band Mountaineer just put out one of the best albums of 2006. "When The Air Is Bright They Shine" is just out on Type Records.
This is a very good description of it from Mountaineer's web page:
Wandhoff had a specific goal in mind as he pieced together the initial skeletons of ‘When the Air is Bright They Shine’; he was listening to the classic LPs of the late 60s and 70s; 35-40 minutes, 10 tracks, every track perfectly realised and the album holding together without filler. There were none of those modern devices used to trick people into thinking they have got something a little more worthy than it really is… just pure pop music. He wanted to re-create this, but not make something knowingly retro, instead to put together his album with the same sort of high bar of quality control, to put together 10 songs that embodied the philosophies of those classic albums without actually mimicking them. After two years of work Wandhoff finally succeeded and had moulded the tracks into leftfield pop gems, raking in influence from decades of essential music.
Here is a wonderful track from the album:
:::Mountaineer - Eliza (A Day For Every Hour):::
I also included the Mountaineer track "Don't You Miss Her" on my latest podcast (although The Pulse spells it "Mauntaineer").
Speaking of Type Records, they also just released the new album by British composer Ryan Teague. It is titled "Coins & Crosses," and it is mind-blowingly good. Check out the title track below.
:::Ryan Teague - Coins & Crosses:::
| By Joshua Daniels | 8:12 PM