Naevus - Perfection Is A Process
Label:
Catalog#:
OECD 068, OP 007
Format:
CD
Country:
Italy
Released:
23 Oct 2004
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Experimental,
Neofolk
Tracklist
| 1 | The Obvious | 3:36 | ||
| 2 | Retreat | 6:38 | ||
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Drums, Percussion -
John Murphy
Guitar - Greg Ferrari | ||||
| 3 | Don't Boil (Version Two) | 4:07 | ||
| Keyboards - David E. Williams | ||||
| 4 | Clay Hats | 4:17 | ||
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Drums -
John Murphy
Guitar - Greg Ferrari | ||||
| 5 | South Bank | 4:19 | ||
| Guitar - Greg Ferrari | ||||
| 6 | Look To The State | 5:25 | ||
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Drums -
John Murphy
Guitar - Greg Ferrari | ||||
| 7 | New Featureless List | 4:25 | ||
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Guitar -
Greg Ferrari
Shanai - Andrew Trail | ||||
| 8 | Voice In A Bin | 5:59 | ||
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Drums -
John Murphy
Guitar - Greg Ferrari | ||||
| 9 | Scribbler | 5:08 | ||
| Drums, Electronics [Sampler], Singing Bowls - John Murphy | ||||
| 10 | Afters | 6:48 | ||
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Drums -
John Murphy
Guitar - Greg Ferrari | ||||
Credits
Bass, Accordion, Electronics -
Joanne Owen
Mastered By - Hunter Barr
Recorded By [Drums Recorded By] - Andrew Trail (tracks: 4, 6, 10)
Recorded By [Keyboards Recorded By] - David E. Williams (tracks: 3)
Recorded By, Mixed By - Naevus
Voice, Guitar [Acoustic] - Lloyd James
Mastered By - Hunter Barr
Recorded By [Drums Recorded By] - Andrew Trail (tracks: 4, 6, 10)
Recorded By [Keyboards Recorded By] - David E. Williams (tracks: 3)
Recorded By, Mixed By - Naevus
Voice, Guitar [Acoustic] - Lloyd James
Notes
Recorded and mixed at Wooden Lung, London from August 2003 to June 2004, except keyboards in track 3 recorded in Philadelphia on 28th March 2004 and drums in tracks 4, 6 and 10 recorded at the 491 Gallery, London on 15th March 2004.
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Certainly someone who will take his effort very seriously and could try to bring some light of his own world into this one in order to iluminate us for an instant... Naevus.
I didnt expect this freshness and strong work from them. But quite frankly i got it by chance not by will and that makes it more interesting since there's no casualities on universe.
For one instance. John Murphy is the drummer so that starts to sound pretty interesting from there we have the music from this now veteran music. Neo folk?, noise?, a bit of martial industrial? (specially in the song "Retreat" which is a blow in the face to the kiddy neofolkies around)some psychedelia? power pop? yeah everything this and more i can tell you and certainly lots and lots of poetic spirit, philosophy and even politics.
Sol Invictus could be a reference in terms of composition and lyrical axis as well as Legendary pink dots on the more ambient like style...but Naevus is certainly not THEM it is enterely his OWN.
Taking elements from many styles and creating something enterely new and fresh gives us the idea that certainly this is a good alchemist and that not every music is absorbed or alienated by "movements", futile ideologies that will vanish in the blink of an eye or rigid adherence to a musical style.
If as the title sugest, "perfection is a process" this work is certainly very near glory or above the paragon of such title as for originality, bravery, strongness and beauty...and of course, bloody work.
Above all we have light in here. The show must go on, heilige leben!