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The solo project of New York's Adam Pierce, who also drums in The Dylan Group and runs the Bubble Core label, Mice Parade evidences a boldly inventive and highly individual take on post-rock / electronica imagineering. Following up 1998's much-lauded Bubble Core album, 'The True Meaning Of BoddleyBaye', 'Ramda' forges a distinctive, immersive audio space of skittering, piled-up percussion and atmospheric, hook-laden melodics. Again bereft of samples or sequences, 'Ramda' is played live with endless multi-track overdubs. In an attempt to usher in some improvisation into a studio situation where one person is playing all the instruments, each track, as well as each mix, was recorded in just one take - no going back and fixing mistakes, no choosing the best from multiple versions.

Flowing together beautifully, the album's 15 tracks continue to blur genres and mesmerize the listener with a series of glistening, interlocking melodic hooks and grooves. Shifting moods and drifting from the densely percussive to the sparse and fragile, phat / crisp drums, bass, picked / processed guitars, piano, vibes, xylophone and keyboards are carefully layered together in a bustling, bristling mix like some aural equivalent of tapestry or the intricate, architectural installation work of artist Jessica Stockholder. Complex, morphous structures are dominated by some gorgeously orchestrated, deep melodic hooks and shimmering textures, occassionally displaying a seriously cinematic depth and quality (see especially the weightless, dreamlike 'Distant' or 'Galileo'). Beneath these lies an ultra-detailed, at times dubwise, studio trickery - continuously breaking down and reconstructing themselves, tracks are riddled with cuts, false-turns and odd jumps, twists, drop-outs, and all manner of brief, perplexing sonic events. What remains to the fore, however, is the funky, organic and totally coherent nature of the album.

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FatCat Info:

The solo project of New York's Adam Pierce, who also drums in The Dylan Group and runs the Bubble Core label, Mice Parade evidences a boldly inventive and highly individual take on post-rock / electronica imagineering. Following up 1998's much-lauded Bubble Core album, 'The True Meaning Of BoddleyBaye', 'Ramda' forges a distinctive, immersive audio space of skittering, piled-up percussion and atmospheric, hook-laden melodics. Again bereft of samples or sequences, 'Ramda' is played live with endless multi-track overdubs. In an attempt to usher in some improvisation into a studio situation where one person is playing all the instruments, each track, as well as each mix, was recorded in just one take - no going back and fixing mistakes, no choosing the best from multiple versions.

Flowing together beautifully, the album's 15 tracks continue to blur genres and mesmerize the listener with a series of glistening, interlocking melodic hooks and grooves. Shifting moods and drifting from the densely percussive to the sparse and fragile, phat / crisp drums, bass, picked / processed guitars, piano, vibes, xylophone and keyboards are carefully layered together in a bustling, bristling mix like some aural equivalent of tapestry or the intricate, architectural installation work of artist Jessica Stockholder. Complex, morphous structures are dominated by some gorgeously orchestrated, deep melodic hooks and shimmering textures, occassionally displaying a seriously cinematic depth and quality (see especially the weightless, dreamlike 'Distant' or 'Galileo'). Beneath these lies an ultra-detailed, at times dubwise, studio trickery - continuously breaking down and reconstructing themselves, tracks are riddled with cuts, false-turns and odd jumps, twists, drop-outs, and all manner of brief, perplexing sonic events. What remains to the fore, however, is the funky, organic.......
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