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02. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Deprisa, Deprisa The Trance Comes
03. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Wer Nie Sein Brot Mit Tranen AB
04. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Fruhlingsgefuhl
05. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - If My Heart Was A Little Swan
06. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Bousha met Grandpa. (u)
07. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Loveyou,givemenoonenew. (s&u)
08. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Pat met his ex-girlfriend. (s)
09. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Nancy met Daniel. (s)
10. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Give us a call. (s)
11. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Todd met his girlfriend. (u)
12. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Guitar of Stele. (u)
13. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Julie met her girlfriend. (s)
14. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Eveningromanticstrings. (s&u)
15. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How jeff met Denise. (u)
16. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - HoldinghandsinWashingtonSquarePark,watchingtheshow. (u)
17. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Laura met Keith. (u)
18. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Moonstrucked. (s)
19. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Grandpa me Grandma. (u)
20. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Loversonahayrideinthecountryside. (s&u)
21. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How John met his girlfriend. (s)
22. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - Violadores, or hownottofindyourtruelove. (u)
23. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Opa met Bousha. (u)
24. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - RomanticRainynightforBIGlovin'. (u)
25. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How Sandra met Aeron. (u)
26. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - FeelingsorryforyourselfbecauseyouhavebeenexiledfromLisbon. (u)
27. SUETSU & UNDERWOOD - How mom met dad. (u)
ARTIST
TITLE
Love Album
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
DISKONO 03 DISKONO 03
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/28/1999

"Lucky Kitchen founders Daniel Raffel and Aeron Bergman defect temporarily to find a home with kindred spirits Diskono. Once again bearing witness to what they term their 'obsessive recording habits' (Minidisc or tape recorders always primed and ready), The Love Album pieces together a series of lo-tech, collaged inventions, each 'musical' track bookended by a brief, raw-recorded clip of dialogue (interviews with a range of friends, family & acquaintances) on the theme of love/relationships, and the first flowerings of romance (numerous recollections of how 'X meets Y'). With its 25 tracks forming a series of clipped, fragmentary sketches, there's nonetheless something compelling and deeply enchanting about the results. 'Loveyou,givemenoonenew' and 'Watchingromanticindianmoviesathome' recall Foehn -- their lo-fi vocal sampling/looping shifting through a fog of woozy hiss and FX, tape clicks or slow, cavernous beats. 'Guitar Of Stele' transforms vocals and acoustic guitar strumming through speed-shifts, chopping up and stretching out the instrument in a more lo-fi echo of Fennesz' recent Mego 7". With their home taping/concrete sampling methods processed and reshaped through the PC, Suetsuo & Underwood confuse any neat binary dividing between analogue/digital, instead realising a kind of mediated, modern American folk (honest, urban, multicultural) that's grounded in the palpably 'real' atmosphere of their field recordings, whilst clawing out a fresh, uniquely creative use of electronics. Emotionally, the feel of the music is curiously downered, lacking in the giddying gushes and rushes, the indescribable mood-fluxes you'd associate with the concept. Nevertheless, the ensemble works as a refreshingly frayed and sketch-like audio-document, a homely patchwork of briefly glimpsed lives and ideas. Slipped out virtually unnoticed, without wishing to stand up or make bold declamations, The Love Album instead appears crafted with a genuine feeling and sense of community: an inventive and intimate tangling together of roots, stories and intriguing directions." -- Dave Howell