A War Waltz

Quiet Countries

A War Waltz
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.

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