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Immeasurable Currents

a Studio Release
Release Year:
2011
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Added To Proggnosis on: 29 Sep 2011
Last Updated on: 25 May 2012 by: DBSilver

Track Listing 

  1. Too Much Light
  2. The Old Woods
  3. If Two See a Unicorn
  4. What a Night
  5. The Conservatives
  6. Winter
  7. I Could Eat You Up
  8. Wordswords
  9. Autumn
  10. Mitch
  11. A Garland of Miniatures
  12. Nightfall

Performer Credits  


Dave Willey

accordion, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, guitar, mailing tubes, piano, bells, zither, whistling, electric guitar, folk guitar, organ, guitarrón, harmonium; vocals (10)

Mike Johnson

guitar, electric guitar (4, 5, 7, 8, 12)

Deborah Perry

vocals (all tracks but 9, 10)

Elaine di Falco

vocals (1, 6, 9), piano (8, 9)

Hugh Hopper

bass, loops (2, 4, 12)

Farrell Lowe

guitar (2)

Wally Scharold

vocals (5)

James Hoskins

cello (6)

Emily Bowman

viola (6)

Mark Harris

clarinet (6)

Bruce Orr

bassoon (6)

Dave Kerman

drums (7)

Hamster Theatre

vocals for loops (12)

Reviews


review by: Valerio

In my journey presenting my favourites labels there we go once again with a great production of the AltrOck team from Italy.
Dave Willey is already known for his membership in bands like Thinking Plague and for beeing the mastermind of Hamster Theatre (if you don't know these bands i, kindly, recommend you to start discovering them because, especially Thinking Plague is among my favourites ever and i m sure there are many who think like i do!) BUT this is his solo work and, even if there are pale similarities with the bands mentioned we are really in front of a "very-personal" album not really influenced by his other projects even if among his friends we find musicians involved in those projects and in addition a gueststar known as one of the best bass players in the world (Rip Hugh Hopper).

Actually there is a previous solo work by the artist but i haven't got the pleasure to listen to it.

All your attention will be focused on melodies and words. Yes, WORDS are probably the essence of this album because this is made on poems written by the artist's father during his life and this is the right present his son is doing to him celebreting the poems and making them known worldwide via music forever. "The Tin Box Papers and other poems".

Poems are always personal and everyone who reads really gets, again, a personal point of view. Im not here judging or describing the poems because that will be only my point of view and can be really far from what is really the meaning of them. Poems are not a flag, poems are free for all, like music is. Poems are unmeasurable, probably immeasurable.

It's an album which took a long time to see light so you can imagine that every second is refined and listened by Mr. Willey thousends times in the last 4 years and will take a lot to You too to get into it because it's not an album you play and jump on the sofa crying: OMG this is a killer! You need dozens+dozens listenings before getting into it, before assimilating its meaning.

 The emotive essence which is transmitted is huge, it's really deep and it's perfect for this winter period and maybe even for this era of financial catastrophes... i mean, there is hope hided behind. Sometimes i go into a metafisical playground i know but this time it's really correct.

An album with dissonant parts which are absolutely armonic and melodic at the same time, just to get an impression, visual image: this album is a delicate sound of thunder (no referrments to Pink Floyd but i like the description, the image i want to share!), even if i know, it's difficult to get an image of a sound. Dissonance perfectly marries the melody and it's incredibly performed by two of the best performers of this genre: Elaine DiFalco and Deborah Perry.

I enjoy the quiet emotions it gives. I enjoy the pale and cold emotions it shares.

Atmospheares are related to an autumn/winter mostly, sound is cold, sometimes icy, but there are moments in which you feel the end of them discovering spring, this happens to me everytime i listen "the conservatives" track n°5 and its incredible whistling. It's like a bird that at 6:05am wakes you up in a sunday morning of middle March, it's not the best sound you want to listen at that hour but it's not even the worst, kind of bitter-sweet, isn't it?

"Immeasurable currents" is in limbo between pop-songwriter composition and avant-prog with far referments to traditional music recalled especially by the main instrument, the accordion! It's not a progressive rock album, it has crossed the line of songwriting and pop and rock and avantgarde.
For sure it's not an album for strict progrock listeners, maybe we label it as prog as compositions are complex and work on melodies/harmonies/dissonances is huge/tight/refined and in a kind of progression, but not really! Dave Willey is a polyinstrumentalist who shows us great tecnique and, i can permit, devotion to his instruments.
Word must be said on his friends in fact music of several tunes are written by them, Elain Di Falco, Mike Johnson and Hugh Hopper. There is also the partecipation of killer-drummer Dave Kerman, probably with Chris Cutler and Daniel Denis the flag of the RIO drummers.
Everything mixed and master by the wise Udi Koomran.
"Immeasurable Currents" is a reflection of life put into words and music.

Conclusion: "Dave Willey & Friends - Immeasurable Currents" is a strong emotion, it's a deep voyage in the meaning of life, it's the right moment you can take for yourself.

"HOW CAN WE TELL
WHAT'S HUMAN
WHEN THESE WOODS
ARE GONE?"

(The old woods)

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