Daniel Lanois-Belladonna (2005)
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Daniel Lanois-Belladonna (2005)
Daniel Lanois-Belladonna (2005)
I've had this album for a few years now, and come back to it again and again when the mood strikes. It's a thick piece of chill-out (though not tranquil) atmospheric goodness.
Lanois is a master at creating soundscape ambience for songs to live in, and his pedal steel and guitar playing floating in the middle of all this is beautiful.
"Sketches" was used as background music for a moody car commercial iirc.
"Oaxaca" would be perfect for backing a '60's StarTrek scene where Kirk is making his way through (yet another) long cave
and comes upon a gaggle of green tinted women whose siren call he hears only in his mind.
"The Deadly Nightshade" great use of multitap delay.
"Frozen" is anything but, an uplifting pedal steel over some driving reggae-like swirling hihat then alternating with more plaintive stretches.
"Panorama" you are staring across vast desert while pedal steel notes swell into existence in beautiful sparse runs.
Overall, with this lp you are transported to the space between the stations on an old analog tuner out in the boonies so far even single coil pickups dont' hum.
Finally "Todos Santos" sends you out on a thick swirly atmospheric dustcloud.
Fantastic dense textured instrumental "mood" album.
Has contributions from Brad Mehldau on piano and Brian Blade on drums.
Rick Beato interviews Daniel Lanois (3 hours video!)
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Thanks for posting about this record. I had not heard it until last week and it is indeed brilliant.
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