Whale Music

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 01:07:56
Rheostatics: Martin Tielli (vocals, guitar); Dave Bidini (vocals, guitar, bass); Tim Vesely (vocals, bass, guitar, piano, accordion); Dave Clark (vocals, drums, bohdran). Additional personnel: Dutch Toko, Tim Mech (guitar); Lewis Melville (pedal steel guitar, banjo); Dave Allen (violin, background vocals); Gene Hardy (saxophone); Chris Brown (organ, trombone); Dave Crosby (synthesizer); Joey Bechta (tambourine, backgroud vocals); Tannis Slimmon, Richard Burgman (background vocals). Engineers: James Stewart, Michael Phillip-Wojewoda, Sweet Ormand Jobin, Matt DeMarteo. Recorded at Reaction Studios, Toronto, Canada. Personnel: Tim Vessely (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, accordion, piano, mini-Moog synthesizer, percussion, background vocals); Martin Tielli (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Dave Bidini (vocals, guitar); Tim Martin (vocals, accordion, background vocals); Dave Clark (vocals, drums, percussion, background vocals); Pyramid of Stupidity Singers (vocals); Michael Phillip Wojewoda (guitar, mini-Moog synthesizer, tambourine, background vocals); Dave B. (guitar); Lewis Melville (electric guitar, steel guitar, banjo); Tim Mech (electric guitar); Melville (steel guitar); Dutch Toko (classical guitar); Dave Allen (violin, strings, background vocals); Gene Hardy (saxophone); Chris Brown (trombone, piano, organ); Neil Peart (drums, percussion); Joey Bechta (tambourine, background vocals); Dave C., Tannis Slimmon, The Raindrops (background vocals). Recording information: Reaction Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Unknown Contributor Role: De Vallion String Quartet. Arrangers: Kevin Gould; Neil Peart. This is grand-scale stuff, progressive without being obscure. Tight, economical pop structures give way to jamming improvisation and time-signature changes bordering on the out of control. Tasteful acoustic passages surrender to electric mayhem, then to orchestrated grandeur. Many Rheostatics songs do not follow conventional, linear song structure, although -- when called upon -- they can turn out the singalong, Crosby, Stills & Nash-like "Legal Age Life at Variety Store." Whale Music wrestles, undaunted, with conflict and contradictions, marrying simple beauty to complex surrealism. ~ Roch Parisien
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)