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| DIM LOCATOR SIX MILES DEEP |
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| Musicians |
| Phil Shoenfelt | vocals, guitar | |||
| Dave Allen |
bass guitar | |||
| Chris Hughes | drums |
| Availabilty |
| MOLOKO PLUS |
| Credits |
| Track 1: Hooper/Owen/Perkins (Mushroom Music) Track 2: Howard (Mute Songs) Track 3: Shoenfelt/Allen/Hughes (Copyright Control) Track 4: Shoenfelt/Allen/Hughes (Copyright Control) Track 5: Shoenfelt (Hanseatic Musikverlag/Strange Ways Medien) Track 6: Shoenfelt/Allen/Hughes (Copyright Control) Track 7: Calvert/Brock (Sony/ATV Music Publishing) Track 8: Pink Fairies (Polydor Music) Track 9: Shoenfelt/Allen/Hughes (Copyright Control) Recorded at die naTo, Leipzig, 12.04.2015 Live sound engineer: Christoph Risch Post production: Dave Allen Cover photos: Adela Blazek Hrivnaková, Jan Richter Special thanks to Grüßaugust |
| Press Release |
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| Reviews |
| Magazinuni.cz by Anthony Kocábek 10/2016 |
Phil
Shoenfelt with his bandmates - bassplayer Dave Allen and drummer Chris
Hughes – always emerges from somewhere and then for some time
disappears again. Their new album is a live concert, catching last
year’s performance at the club "die naTo" in Leipzig, Germany, and
released by the German label Moloko +. The intention, apparently, was
to offer at this time of so-called "live recordings" (which are more
often than not created at the post-production stage), a real live
concert. The CD is released in its raw form, without any added studio
tweaking or improvements. The intention was also to complement and
contrast their own songs with cover versions, both expected and
unexpected. Besides Hawkwind, for example, they return to their
favourite Rowland S. Howard, and we also have a song from the
repertoire of Shoenfelt and Hughes’s previous band Fatal Shore, a song
which gives its name to the whole album.
The bet on rawness has paid off. In the studio, the sound would probably have been more dynamic and more layered, but in this form the album is a report on the intuitive playing of all three musicians, the harmonic and rhythmic interchange, which often sounds almost magical and is able to escalate fantastically. With dark, melancholic undertones, and clearly coming from the roots of blues (characteristic of all Shoenfelt's projects), the obvious psychedelic tendencies are enriched by the playing of both his bandmates. The pared down style of playing, which is plain and without any unnecessary instrumental exhibitions, even has a shading of protopunk. As a good example, we can take the penultimate song "Do It" from the repertoire of English psychedelic band Pink Fairies. As interpreted by Dim Locator, the fact that it’s a cover song ceases to be important - the mood and energy which this band is able to imprint on the songs they choose to cover is the essential aspect. The not inconsiderable fact is that these pieces by their favourite bands don't qualitatively protrude from the whole at all. If it is true that the best concert recordings are those which arouse an interest in the listener to see the band live once again, then this album hits the jackpot. |
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| Max Décharné (ex-Gallon Drunk) 11/2016 |
International trio’s debut long-player, live and direct in Deutschland ...
Named after a Rowland S Howard song on The Birthday Party’s Junkyard LP, Dim Locator feature two-thirds of Berlin’s much-missed Australian/English band The Fatal Shore. Indeed, in many ways, this album is the sound of vocalist/guitarist Phil Shoenfelt and drummer Chris Hughes carrying on that fine tradition, following the untimely death of Bruno Adams from cancer in 2009. Recorded live in Leipzig, there are powerful covers of Beasts of Bourbon and Pink Fairies songs, plus Howard’s own I Ate The Knife, but it’s their own material that provides the real highlights. In particular, the atmospheric menace of Carolyn, and closing track Touch, with its insistent refrain ‘Everything I touch / slips away from me’ – the sound of people from two different hemispheres who’ve lived in central Europe for several decades, recorded on one of many long nights on the road. |
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