Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project
Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project | ||||
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Studio album by Mirah & Ginger Brooks Takahashi | ||||
Released | August 19, 2003 | |||
Recorded | 2002 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 28:53 | |||
Label | K Records | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project is a collaboration between Mirah and Ginger Brooks Takahashi with assorted guests. The album consists of nine full-length songs, interspersed with nine shorter instrumental interludes.
Production
The eighteen-track album was written by Mirah and Takahashi in a secluded house in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2002, where the friends spent a month writing songs about their experience together, and recording using a Tascam four-track, and a mini-disc recorder. According to Allmusic, "the chirping birds, lonesome train whistles, and buzzing insects that pop up throughout Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project make it feel like a collection of audio postcards from Takahashi and Mirah's vacation."[1]
Release, reception
K Records released the album on August 19, 2003. It received a positive reception from Allmusic, who gave it 3.5/5 stars, and praised both the vocals, instrumentals, and whimsical and emotional nature of the songwriting.[1]
Track listing
- All tracks without noted composer are interludes not listed in the CD liner notes.
- "Lil' Bit (Of Baritone)" (Takahashi)
- "Birdy Noises"
- "Plink Plink Plink"
- "The Red Curtain" (Takahashi/M. Zeitlyn)
- "The Knife Thrower" (Takahashi/M. Zeitlyn)
- "The Party" (Takahashi/M. Zeitlyn)
- "Noisy Groove"
- "Life You Love" (M. Zeitlyn)
- "Plink Plink"
- "Broken Mirah"
- "Pure" (E. Zeitlyn)
- "Acoustic Groove"
- "While We Have The Sun" (M. Zeitlyn)
- "Horny Groove"
- "Rock Of Ages" (Marcus)
- "Squocky Groove"
- "Oh! September" (Hockel/Takahashi/M. Zeitlyn)
- "Buggy Noises"
Personnel
- Mirah - primary artist, various instruments
- Ginger Brooks Takahashi - primary artist, various instruments
- Steve Hockel - composer
References
- 1 2 3 Phares, Heather (August 19, 2003). "Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-04-22.