M IS THE THIRTEENTH LETTER vol de nuit

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what a fabulous split 7"! with Laetitia Sadier. on All City.

David Pajo, rehearsing for his first solo album that later came out under the Aerial M moniker.

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KNIFE IN THE WATER 2 spades

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digitalizing the song i was confronted to a typical problem: the exact speed of a vinyl record. the label of this 7" indicates how long the songs 'lasts' - 4:18 for 2 spades.
so what? well, my Numark's pitch being at '0', the song only takes 04:01!

so what i did was to re-record it, lowering the pitch, to get a 4:18-version (that sounds way too slow!).
tell me what version you prefer.

dried indie-americana. a Glitterhouse-band, that KITW eventually ended up being.


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MOVERE WORKSHOP second watchung [sic]

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one of the best hidden All City secrets.

perfect late night-in the cold wet streets-of berlin-in fall-track.


WILCO's Mikael Jorgensen, back in 1995.


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ENON fly south

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an unintentional coincidence to post this thematically related song straight after BESNARD LAKES' aviation.

really.


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PENNY'S ELECTRIC WORKHORSES SONGS conflicts with blocks of the citizenry

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U. liked it a lot, and even managed to get one copy via Thrill Jockey's mailorder. i had taped her all the All City 7", to justify my label-completism-obsession.

James Bertram, who very much is PEWS, used to play in Lync, Red Star Theory and 764-Hero. Wikipedia tells me that he's also on the bass on Beck's One Foot In The Grave. he's also on a couple of Built to Spill recordings.


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DURA-DELINQUENT all lushed up

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bought for pure completism-reasons.

but this song is not that bad - would fit well on a late nineties -In The Red comp.


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THE KINGSBURY MANX been passed over

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what a hidden treasure.

enjoy.

this is the last All City 7inch to have been released.


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BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY black dissimulation

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sweet ill health has hidden from me,
events about which one has no memory.
whether it is to protect or deny
one is not told and one asks not why.

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THE MAKE-UP wade in the water

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pure gospel yé-yé. Ian Svenonius invites you to join him in an ecstatic hip-swing.


a tv-performance of their probably best song, on the defunct french Nulle Part Ailleurs on Canal+, back in the time when french private television program was more than an advertisement-break:



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CALEXICO lacquer

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first Calexico-release ever?
i'm not that much a fan.

but this song is worth it.


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INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT una stanza vuota

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bought in maybe the best indie-7inch store on earth - in brighton, back in 1999. i was there for my first english-language-course, in a somewhat wannabe aristocratic upper-class school - mister cope, a complacent francophobe thatcher-admirer, was the host.
apart from trying to improve my poor language skills and getting to know A., i spent a lot of time at Edge World Records.

pure euphoria.

in japan, people go to oxygen-bars. in airplanes, the emergency-masks are primarily supposed to satisfy a similar need.
give me such a recordstore. or the simple prospect of it - that's all i need.

this 7inch followed that one in the attempt to get the whole All-City-bunch, a oneofakind semi-obscure micro-label.
International Airport is maybe the most important discovery to me. two years later, i got their lp in london (during another language course-trip, this time in southampton, were i couldn't find any interesting record-store...)

Ali Roberts, the Appendix Out-mastermind, is on the spot. hypnotic Broadcast-like music, but with less Alice in Wonderland-acid and more charm.


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SHANNON WRIGHT a tin crown for the social bash

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her first solo release, on the glorious All City label that is worth to be collected as a whole.
no personal memories connected to this one, apart from its seller - the legendary M.S., to be found via the mailorder #3 -link.


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