A War Waltz
Quiet Countries
Performed By
Quiet Countries
Album UPC
751937389323
CD Baby Track ID
1362574918
Label
Imminent Music Company
Released
2011-06-09
BPM
121
Rated
0
ISRC
ushm91352289
Year
2011
Spotify Plays
46
Writers
Writer
Lebahan C Borgerson
Pub Co
Quite Countries Music Company ASCAP
Composer
Lebahan C Borgerson
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Rights Controlled
Master and Publishing Grant
Rights
One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United States - Oregon
Description
The third record from the Portland, OR based musical shape shifters, builds upon their signature take on popular music, filling their densely orchestrated songs with intoxicating melodies, shambling beats and intriguing textures.
Notes
The Ancient Motorcade is the long awaited 3rd full length from Portland shape shifters,
Quiet Countries.
Over the last eight or so years, Quiet Countries has used both electronic and acoustic
elements to craft it’s own brand of pop music. From the densely orchestrated and
intricate compositions of their 2006 debut No One Makes a Sound (Lucky Madison
Records) to the more playful and beat oriented songs from The Karate Williams Diaries
(Central Service Records), the band has perfected a blend of manipulated sounds and
harmonies, bending them into familiar forms and shapes.
With their third album, The Ancient Motorcade, Quiet Countries move deeper into the
realm of alternately shuffling beats and intoxicating melodies that they have been known
to pack into their repertoire.
Like No One Makes a Sound, themes of work, love and responsibility are explored, but
The Ancient Motorcade finds Quiet Countries expanding their sound with complex
layering, glitchy electronics and industrial beats. The album is polished off with reedy
vocals and crystallized lyrics reflecting on struggle and redemption.
From the opening eerie echoes and whispery tones of “In All Directions,” The Ancient
Motorcade transitions from synth-pop jams like “Go To Bed” and “Almost Obscene,” to
the contemplative, orchestrated ballads like “A War Waltz,” into the almost post-punk
textures and electronic flourishes of songs like “Lucky Boy” and “Impressed.”
Largely performed by Leb Borgerson, The Ancient Motorcade features appearances
from Laura Gibson, Victor Paul Nash (Point Juncture, WA), Douglas Jenkins (Portland
Cello Project), Andy Combs (Andy Combs and the Moth) and Gus Elg (Alan Singley and
Pants Machine). Borgerson is also a member of Alan Singley and Pants Machine and
The Headphone Party, and has done remixes for Portland acts like Reporter and Blue
Cranes. Borgerson has also produced music for companies like Fuel TV and Arkham
NW through his label and production company, the Imminent Music Co.
Quiet Countries.
Over the last eight or so years, Quiet Countries has used both electronic and acoustic
elements to craft it’s own brand of pop music. From the densely orchestrated and
intricate compositions of their 2006 debut No One Makes a Sound (Lucky Madison
Records) to the more playful and beat oriented songs from The Karate Williams Diaries
(Central Service Records), the band has perfected a blend of manipulated sounds and
harmonies, bending them into familiar forms and shapes.
With their third album, The Ancient Motorcade, Quiet Countries move deeper into the
realm of alternately shuffling beats and intoxicating melodies that they have been known
to pack into their repertoire.
Like No One Makes a Sound, themes of work, love and responsibility are explored, but
The Ancient Motorcade finds Quiet Countries expanding their sound with complex
layering, glitchy electronics and industrial beats. The album is polished off with reedy
vocals and crystallized lyrics reflecting on struggle and redemption.
From the opening eerie echoes and whispery tones of “In All Directions,” The Ancient
Motorcade transitions from synth-pop jams like “Go To Bed” and “Almost Obscene,” to
the contemplative, orchestrated ballads like “A War Waltz,” into the almost post-punk
textures and electronic flourishes of songs like “Lucky Boy” and “Impressed.”
Largely performed by Leb Borgerson, The Ancient Motorcade features appearances
from Laura Gibson, Victor Paul Nash (Point Juncture, WA), Douglas Jenkins (Portland
Cello Project), Andy Combs (Andy Combs and the Moth) and Gus Elg (Alan Singley and
Pants Machine). Borgerson is also a member of Alan Singley and Pants Machine and
The Headphone Party, and has done remixes for Portland acts like Reporter and Blue
Cranes. Borgerson has also produced music for companies like Fuel TV and Arkham
NW through his label and production company, the Imminent Music Co.
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