CALE PARKS / Illuminated Manuscript
STIFF SLACK/STSL-20 CD
'06.06.25発売
定価 1890円 (税抜 1800円)

USインディーロックシーンの新たな良心とでもいうべき素晴らしい音楽性とカリスマ性を持つ"ALOHA (Polyvinyl)"のドラマーでもあるCALE PARKS（ケイル・パークス）がSTIFF SLACKからソロアルバムをリリース。本家ALOHAでも充分に感じ取れ、貢献もしている抜群なリズム感、浮遊感や色彩豊かな表現力は当然の事、驚くほどにメロディアスな楽曲、様々なマレット楽器やシンセ音が飛び交う音響工作はベッドルーム・アンビエント・ポストロックとでもいえる内容。そして自身のボーカルまでも披露する意欲作ですが、好きな時間/場所で作りためた程よく力の抜けた居心地の良い音楽でもあります。

フルタイムバンドのALOHAを軸に、このソロ作のリリース、更にJOAN OF ARC (Perishable/Polyvinyl).、CEX (TigerBeat6/Record Label)、PIT ER PAT (Thrill Jockey), 、CHIN UP CHIN UP (Flameshovel/Suicide Squeeze)、OWEN (Polyvinyl)、LOVE OF EVERYTHING (Record Label)、GEORGIE JAMES(ex-Q AND NOT U)などの作品やツアーにも参加し音楽への執着を隠せないでいる。

USでのリリースは現在決まっていませんが、STIFF SLACK盤にはボーナストラックとして2曲多く収録しています(全13曲)。

photo : Chris Strong

CALE PARKS web site (my space) :
http://www.myspace.com/caleparksmusic

TRACK LISTING :
1, Pretty Boring
2, Miss My Little Wizard Copilot
3, Halls Of Avalon
4, I Am The Arm
5, Late Show
6, All Lips And Stars
7, Wet Paint
8, Two Flats
9, This Garden Is A Maze
10, Fearsome Opponent
11, Girls Counting
12, Moonsuits Always Fit *
13, Beat Masheen *
*bonus track

FILE UNDER :
Post Rock, Ambient, Progressive Rock, ALOHA, JOAN OF ARC, MUM, MERCURY PROGRAM, MICE PARADE, CEX, PIT ER PAT, CHIN UP CHIN UP, OWEN, LOVE OF EVERYTHING, Polyvinyl, Jade Tree, Dischord, Record Label, Flameshovel...

"In between takes for the new Aloha record, Cale Parks recorded these songs. We find an intimate but intricate bedroom ambient electronic sound. All keyboards and mallet instruments, the tv is on in the background, the cat walks through the room meowing occasionally. Relax, and wait for the coda. Cale has spent some time here and there. He plays fulltime in Aloha(Polyvinyl), and has recorded and toured with CEX(TigerBeat6/Record Label) and Joan of Arc(Perishable/Polyvinyl). In addition he has lent his hands to a number of projects, Pit Er Pat (Thrill Jockey), Chin Up Chin Up (Flameshovel), Owen (Polyvinyl), Love of Everything (Record Label/Suicide Squeeze), among others. He's a natural. In the last year, Cale split his time between several cities where he wrote all of the songs heard on this album. Recorded on borrowed four-tracks and computers, as he slept in borrowed beds, somehow, all of the songs feel comfortable, at home."

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