Shifting Sands Of A Blue Car

by Jamison Young

folk alternative country popfolk electronic

12 tracks

58:36

1	How Far	3:45
2	Crush	3:32
3	Memories Child	5:02
4	Top Of The Hill	4:59
5	Carry The World	4:29
6	Soldiers Of Happiness	3:19
7	Live On A Moon	6:00
8	Cold World	3:37
9	Steps Beyond	5:55
10	Island	4:57
11	Solar System	4:41
12	Walk The Streets	8:20

Description

This album was produced by Peter Wells, Tim Powles and Antonio Dixon (and me). Things started out at a small studio on Rilley Street Surry Hills (Sydney), then moved to an abandoned ambulance station opposite central station that is now knocked down. Completed the journey at spacejunk studios in Glebe/ mastered at 301. Making this album got messy at times, its been hard to think about the idea of going back into a studio after completion. The attempt to self publish into commercial streams, not easy.

My overall experience with this CD was like drinking an electric fruit smoothie while lying in a hammock on the dark side of the moon. "
Billigan - Long Island Music Scene New York

"live on a moon sounds like a Roger Waters out-take from the Pink Floyd album the wall"
by EDF - Phase9.TV - Uk

"Defying definition, this independent artist from Sydney Australia falls into a category of his own with his surreal yet lucid works of electronic folk music"
Jessica Knot - USA

"There is a great imagination at work on shifting sands"
Sebastian Skeet - Drum Media -street press Australia

"This is a layered and richly textured album, conjuring up evocative images with its haunting lyrics which seep with slow grace into the consciousness of anyone who dares to allow it"
Zolton Zavos - Revolver - street press Australia

"The Sydney-based singer/songwriter dresses his introspective and highly personal songs in a dense and evocative production effort that lifts the material to a lofty level"
Shane Nichols - Australian Financial Review

"I'm saying this because his songs remind me of the Beatles... simple tunes and great lyrics"
- Freakz Of Rock - USA

"psychedelic samples and evocative instrumentation that are worthy of notice in their own right."
Louis Miller - left off the dial - USA

"this album as listenable and penetrating in 10 years time as it is today ,quietly sombre but tantalisingly intimate"
Phill Bennett - Nova street press Australia

"unchallenged experimental singer songwriters. iota springs to mind as being of similar ilk"
Steve Baker - ABC music Australia

"The lyrics are extremely well-written and introspective views of the world and all of which affects it "
J-Sin - smother.net

"Something a little shy, a little self effacing, a little deeper, a little conscious of being a very personal revelation. This is one such album."
Andrew Tucker -Gold Coast Australia

Reviews

bmccosar

? !!

09/02/08

Unfortunately, punctuation ( ? !! ) is all I have as far as 'in two words' goes -- all I can say otherwise is 'just listen'. I really wasn't expecting to get hit that hard by the music, but it was just right.

Jusqu'à présent, j'écris tous mes critiques en deux langues. Mais Jamendo Orange ne reconnaît pas moi! Ces mots seront "en français", mais pas en "français". ;-) Néanmoins, c'est un excellent album.

stesepu

Delicious

21/03/08

The funniest thing of all is that I got to this album because it was tagged as country/folk. I don't really know where some people hear a single country note in it! The music is really original, in some way intimate and sometimes almost psychedelic. It's one of those albums which would deserve 10/10, if the voice was as good as the music, sometimes it is very slightly out of tune (like the guitar on "Memorys child") and that's a pity, cos it would otherwise pefectly fit into the whole sound. However, just listen and enjoy.

Album information