playlist artwork#12 this weekMoscow Satellites (EP)

by Chris Skinner

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About this album

  • Updated: 17/04/2009

 A collection of concept songs written, recorded and produced by Chris Skinner, since the disbandment of 6point4 and Life support in 2008. 

With tracks ranging from classic heavy blues to acoustic ambients, via more modern indie and poprock, the "Moscow Satellites EP" is an exercise in songwriting and production processes, many of which are still being mastered by the artist.

 

The tracks of this album are published under a Creative Commons licence, check the licence associated to each track.

Reviews for "Moscow Satellites (EP)"

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florelle

Bien sympa!

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florelle • 2009-04-23 15:04:19

C'est très agréable à écouter! j'aime beaucoup la voix, le rythme très sympa! bravo aux musiciens. merci pour cette recommandation ça vaut le détour!
Ivan1984

GCHQ phone tapping...

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Ivan1984 • 2009-04-22 12:06:57

Moscow Satellites came as a recommendation and then as a friendship tag. The artist harks from my old haunting grounds, spent many years in Cheltenham, working, college and living for a short while. Anyway, that aside the first track I am not particularly enamoured of, it's OK, but not really my stuff. Sounds like a launchpad for a satellite to fame and fortune in concept and presentation. So much for Moscow Satellites, which as a song I don't think really works, as I suspect the CIA are much more likely to be watching over us than Moscow. As a country they are too busy trying to recover from being undermined by the NWO, to worry about the likes of a musician in Cheltenham, bearing in mind also it's the home of GCHQ. CardShark, a common misrepresentation, the actual inclination to play to win being a card sharp, but then the lyrics speak volumes and is a typical misnomer, knowing Gloucestershire as I do. Rohirrim is fairly dull and thankfully short. Daffodils, which are about the brightest things from the county, is not nearly as glorious as the flower. The last track, sounds pretty much the same as the others, The Hero Never Dies. To be honest, and I don't see any point in being otherwise, I cannot see a concept apart from the first tracks very outdated sense of threat from Moscow, which is by far outshadowed by the threat of other world powers. It doesn't sound progressive in any way, shape or form. Rock, hardly. Indie, when its more like run-of-the-mill, though I will agree with 'rockpop'. I was hoping for something a bit more ambitious and worth listening to.
musictomyears

Chris Skinner A Name To Be Watching Out 4

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musictomyears • 2009-04-17 12:23:14

Chris Skinner a name to be watching out for, on Jamendo from now on, what great, rich, solid, captivating voice he has, love the acoustic and electronic guitar playing, as he sings, really nice lyrics, such beauty and amazing tracks to be heard and enjoyed via this very talented singer/songwriter and performer on this great album. Wow, never a dull moment was had believe me! Very professional sounding to say the least! A cracker of an album and a must to check out now!
S-o-u-l-m-a-t-e

Sehr schöne Songs

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S-o-u-l-m-a-t-e • 2009-04-19 11:24:02

eine gelungene Mischung aus flotteren und langsamen Rock/Pop Songs, gesungen von einer sehr besonderen Stimme, die etwas unverwechselbares hat. Besonders die ruhigen Stücke haben es mir angetan. Das Album ruft nach mehr von Chris Skinner !
Aidan Pryde

Gutes Album

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Aidan Pryde • 2009-04-26 21:53:43

Ein wirklich interessanter Acoustic-Charme, benötigt doch aber auch wohl noch hier und dort etwas Feinarbeit (unterschiedliche Lautstärke Titel, wirken teils etwas "dumpf" und nicht so glasklar vom Sound her,...)
leggless

Goldeneye...

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leggless • 2009-04-28 17:57:28

Moscow Satellites certainly demonstrates what Chris Skinner does well. This is an era of increasing fusion across genres. Therefore it should be no surprise to find here an artist with a lilting, soulful voice, tender acoustic guitar pickings yet sledgehammer rock riffs and blues-influenced bass playing are never far behind. And it is when these more distinctive sounds are merged, completely, almost schizophreically, the last track - The Hero Never Dies - that Moscow Satellites works best. The quiet and haunting title track gives way to the far more brutal Cardshark for another highlight. Rohirrim and Daffodils pad out the EP well, though the listener is always left waiting for the crunching guitars that return at the close of the EP Thoroughly recommended.
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