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| Date |
03/05/01 |
| Country |
USA |
| Town |
New York |
| Venue |
Radio show : "Spinning on Air LIVE", Museum for Television & Radio, WNYC |
| Setlist |
01. Lovely Head [Miss World mix]
02. Paper Bag
03. Human
04. Deer Stop
05. Lovely Head
06. Pilots
07. Utopia
08. Felt Mountain
09. UK Girls |
| Reviews |
[Listen to the concert]
- About Goldfrapp and Felt Mountain
Taking some inspiration from classical music, movie soundtracks, 60's French pop and decadent Weimar Republic cabaret, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory have fashioned a thrilling and unique 21st Century noir vision. Conventional instruments mix with fractured left field electronic frequencies to form Goldfrapp's sumptuous passionate reinvention of popular music. Bittersweet melodies blend with eruptions of noise, all to heighten the tension of the unfolding emotional drama. In essence a rural soundscape that deliberately avoids the vagaries of passing musical fads, Goldfrapp's ambiguous widescreen songs seem to evoke metaphorical img of mad love, seemingly beautiful yet terrifying future societies, half remembered dreams/conversations and sinister androids in human form.
Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory's intoxicating music veers always between overwhelming elation and shattering heartbreak, as any great romance should. Imbued with a state of childlike wonder, Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain is an exhilarating yet defiantly undefinable experience that quickens the pulse and inflames the senses. Violence, loneliness and danger are ever near in the mix, as is love, tenderness and the hope of redemption.
Alison Goldfrapp studied Fine Art Painting at Middlesex University and during the course of her work began to experiment; combining music with extravagant performance, visual and sound installation pieces. Though these experiences were rewarding and liberating for Alison she knew music was her only real vocation. Before she had even left college, Alison was already working with Tricky on his album, Maxinquaye. Having successfully collaborated with various artists throughout the 90s, including her friends Orbital on their album, Snivilisation, and touring extensively with Tricky, Alison Goldfrapp desperately felt that her own unadulterated personal creative urges needed to be fully expressed. Alison desired to create music that was timeless, focused and truly epic in scope.
During the late 90s a mutual friend played a tape of Alison's compositions to Will Gregory. Gregory, a film composer (the British football hooligan picture ID is among his credits) was deeply impressed with Alison's distinctive voice, music and lyrics. Discussion ensued between the pair, followed by an exchange of tapes containing some of Alison and Will's favorite musical pieces and songs by other artists. Alison and Will soon realized that they shared so much common ground with their musical tastes and their own song writing, that Goldfrapp was simply inevitable.
A demo by Alison and Will immediately attracted the attention of Mute's founder, Daniel Miller, who instantly recognized and embraced the objectives of the music, while Alison and Will acknowledged that no other label could offer the renowned artistic freedom of the fiercely independent Mute.
Retreating from any urban distractions, in the late summer of 1999, Alison and Will created a studio in an old bungalow near Bath deep in the leafy Wiltshire countryside. The pair would write, record and mix their album for the next five months. This was the sound of their collective musical dream, both avant garde and traditional, acknowledging no boundaries.
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