SIESTA 122
Format: CD digipak/ blue vinyl LP
If...: "songs for the jet set vol. 3"
Third in the unique, highly original, popular series of
kaleidoscopic fantasypop compilations devised by mike
alway for his label if... In alliance with the one genuinely
artistically motivated label of these times, Siesta Records of
Madrid.
Songs for the jet set 2000" is essentially surrealist fantasy. Pop
as artifact. Neither "real" or "unreal". Divinamente desenfadado,
artificioso, frivolo y liviano.
"Songs for the jet set 2000" is essentially surrealist fantasy. Pop
as artifact. Neither "real" or "unreal". Divinamente desenfadado,
artificioso, frivolo y liviano.
The recording studio is used as a time machine in an escapist
enviroment where the only limits are those of the imagination.
Thus, "Songs 2000" features the wonderfully understated teenage
pretend psychedelia of Death by Chocolate, the intriguing
alignment of retro futurist choirboy (and girl) voices that is
Tomorrow´s World; Loveletter-what Toby Dammit in Fellini´s
"Spirits of the dead" might have done had he made Rome, the
plaintive, gently hallucanagenic personality quality of Milky.
Wallpaper, a kind of mediterranean shadows on acid, whose
creative, lightly jazzy melodies successfully bind the programme
together and this edition introduces Daisies, two spontaneous
savage waitresses mauling a respectable diner in 5/4 time.
There´s a cinematic feel, a sensuous atmosphere, an uplifting,
analogue sound and a sense of play quite outside the conventions
of today´s international pop scene.
And it´s a glimpse of the future because one day all records will
be made this way.
Today, Mike Alway and Siesta also collaborate exclusively
together on the illusionary children´s imprint Reverie. and in the
early eighties, Mike presided over the halycon days of Cherry Red
where he intoduced the public to the work of such as Felt and
Tracey Thorn before founding the memorable él records where he
instigated the unusual juxtaposition of aesthetics and imagination
in a novelty context, a project which featured amongst others,
Would be goods, Bad dream fancy dress, King of Luxembourg,
Marden Hill, Louis Philippe and Momus.
TRACKS:
Tomorrow's World: Él graphic
Daisies: Day out
Wallpaper: At the art museum
Death By Chocolate: My friend Jack
Loveletter: Love
Tomorrow's World: I realised you
Wallpaper: Sun
Death By Chocolate: Bears
Tomorrow's World: On a saturday
Milky: Willow´s song
Loveletter: Sun
Wallpaper: Dreams that money can buy
Cover: Él Graphic
Release date: June 2000
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