{"id":240,"date":"2024-08-08T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/?p=240"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:17:14","slug":"sl040-various-artists-avenue-with-trees-a-second-language-cornucopia-sl040x-various-artists-secondaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondlanguagemusic.com\/new\/2024\/08\/08\/sl040-various-artists-avenue-with-trees-a-second-language-cornucopia-sl040x-various-artists-secondaries\/","title":{"rendered":"SL040\u00a0– Various Artists – Avenue With Trees : A Second Language Cornucopia\/SL040x – Various Artists – Secondaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘AVENUE WITH TREES’ TRACKLISTING<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric – Franck Alba
2. Untitled 1983 (Demo) – Oliver Cherer
3. Intonarumori – David John Sheppard
4. Fear Of Shame – Paul Tornbohm
5. La Voisine – C\u00e9dric Pin\/Glen Johnson
6. Manic In Peace -Gareth Dickson
7. Palace of Catalan – Alter Later
8. Record Rewind – Pete Astor
9. Ophelia – Yumi Mashiki
10. Havisham – Jean Lancaster
11. The Gentler Hours – Statues In Fog
12. Half An Hour – Mark Fry
13. Feuillemort -Oliver Cherer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBrussels, raining, 1983\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere along the line, compilation albums became boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merely a cheap, unimaginative ruse by record labels to remind you that once there were (perhaps) a handful of jewels amongst their straw. Or else a basket into which artists cast their cast-offs, the tracks that never quite made the album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it wasn\u2019t always this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Avenue With Trees\u2019<\/em> is partly a paean to the pioneering independent record labels, founded 1979-1980 – Les Disques du Cr\u00e9puscule, Factory Benelux, Sordide Sentimental, whose V\/A compilations were not only unpredictable and eclectic but equally cohesive and inspiring. In fact, without these labels, Second Language would not be Second Language – for their exquisite aesthetics and formatting, their cultivation of artistic community, was the blueprint for what we do now. Long, long before this Brexit madness, these maisons de disques were admirably forging bridges between Britain and the Continent, not burning them.
The somewhat open-ended brief here was simple : \u201cBrussels, raining, 1983\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with that, the artists retreated to their studios to create the picture postcards you hear enclosed \u2013 some drizzly, some sunny, some pastel, some charcoal, some improvised, some meticulously plucked but all embodying that nostalgic love for Europe many of us still hold tight to our chests. And although you might not directly hear the pitter patter of rain on Avenue de Tervueren, you should be able to appreciate the sentiment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here you will find, amongst other things, an intricate, Durutti-esque guitar lesson from Franck Alba, Oliver Cherer\u2019s sea-salted melancholia, Snow Palms\u2019 David Sheppard\u2019s glinting electronics and crystalline glocks, Paul Tornbohm wearing a multitude of compositional chapeaus,Yumi Mashiki\u2019s beautiful scoring, the impressive debut of Jean Lancaster, a new Second Language supergroup, Statues In Fog (an album is to follow) and much, much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Avenue With Trees\u2019 <\/em>comes in a 6 panel, die-cut concertina format, conceived by Glen Johnson with layout by Jeff Teader. Initial copies were accompanied by a 7 track bonus disc of synchronous recordings, \u2018Secondaries\u2019 (now deleted). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘SECONDARIES’ TRACKLISTING : <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Statues In Fog – Vespers<\/em>
2. Statues In Fog – Soliloquy<\/em>
3. Statues In Fog – Twilight, Vaucresson<\/em>
4. Alter Later – 6pm, September<\/em>
5. Statues In Fog – A Faint Sorrow<\/em>
6. Statues In Fog – Nocturne VI
7. Oliver Cherer – The Tragedy Of Surviving<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOLD OUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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