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A1 Mysterons Theremin Thereman – 4:56 A2 Sour Times Electric Piano Rhodes, Organ Hammond – Written-By –.,.,. 4:05 A3 Strangers Written-By –. 3:49 A4 It Could Be Sweet Drum Programming – 4:10 A5 Wandering Star Drums – Organ Hammond – Written-By –.,.,.,.,.,.,.,. 4:46 B1 Numb Organ Hammond – 3:43 B2 Roads Arranged By Strings Arrangement –, Electric Piano Rhodes – Flute Nose Flute –. Strings –, 4:56 B3 Pedestal Trumpet – 3:30 B4 Biscuit Written-By –. 4:34 B5 Glory Box Organ Hammond – Written-By –.
4:49. Vinyl contained in full-color gloss varnish liner with track credits. All tracks recorded at State of Art and Coach House Studios, Bristol, with additional mixing at Moles Studio, Bath. Track A2 contains samples from written & performed by Lalo Schifrin and a percussion sample from written by Henry Brooks and Otis Turner performed by Smokey Brooks Track A3 contains samples from written & performed by Weather Report Track A5 contains samples from written & performed by Eric Burdon & War Track B4 contains samples from written & performed by Johnnie Ray Track B5 contains samples from written & performed by Isaac Hayes ©1994 Go!
Discs Limited. Discs Limited. Somewhere, up there, the God Of Music has a very large wooden bench covered in all his notes, paperwork and things like Mercury Music Prize replicas. Upon this bench, from time to time over the decades, he has occasionally made a mark. A mark to remind himself of the moments when a recording arrived that made him get off his celestial bike and go back for another listen. If you were to be able to see this mark you'd see it isn't just a simple cut that has been made.
There's a kind of patina around it. Little tiny scratches, emanating from it like the mysterious crisscross patterns on the plains of Nazca. If, like Alice, you were able to shrink yourself down real small, then you could explore them. Some you'd have to hop over.
Now and then you might trip. Like a dummy, you might just have to sit there in awe at the wonderment and complexity of it all. A benchmark that's well worth buying a ticket and taking a trip to.
. ' Released: 6 June 1994. ' Released: 1 August 1994. ' Released: 3 January 1995 Dummy is the debut by English band. It was released on 22 August 1994,.
The album received critical acclaim, winning the 1995. It is often credited with popularising the genre, and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Although it achieved only modest chart success overseas, it peaked at number 2 on the, and saw two of its three singles reach number 13. The album was certified gold in 1997 and has sold two million copies in Europe. The album was certified double platinum in the UK in 1996, for sales exceeding 600,000 copies. It had sold 825,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2011.
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Contents. Ultimate vocabulary torrent. History Dummy (1994) Portishead's first album was released in 1994.
The cover features a still from the band's own short film. The credits indicate that at this juncture, Portishead was a duo of and. Adrian Utley, who co-produced the album with them (and who played on nine of the tracks and co-wrote eight), became an official band member shortly after its release. Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States (where it sold more than 150,000 copies even before the band toured there).
Dummy was positively described by the as 'musique noire for a movie not yet made'. Praised its music as ' hip-hop'. Dummy spawned three singles: ', ' and ', and won the in 1995. The success of the album saw the band nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 1995.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 419 on magazine's list of the. The album is often considered one of the greatest albums to date and is a milestone in the definition of the genre. Portishead (1997) After their initial success, Portishead withdrew from the spotlight for three years until their second album, was released in 1997.
The album's sound differed from Dummy, characterised as 'grainy and harsher.' Three singles, ', ' and ' were released, the first one achieving a Top 10 placing in the UK. In 1997, the band performed a one-off show with at the in New York City. A primarily featuring these new orchestral arrangements of the group's songs was released in 1998. There was also a long-form VHS video of the performance, and a DVD followed in 2002, with substantial extra material including many early music videos. Hiatus (1999–2005) In 1999, Portishead recorded the song ' with for his album. For the next few years, the band members concentrated on solo and other pursuits.
In February 2005, the band appeared live for the first time in seven years at the Tsunami Benefit Concert in Bristol. Around that time, Barrow revealed that the band was in the process of writing its third album. In August 2006, the band posted two new tracks on its page (called 'Key Bored 299 03' and 'Greek Jam'), described by Barrow as 'doodles'. Around the same time, Portishead covered 's 'Un Jour Comme un Autre (Requiem for Anna)' on the tribute album. Third (2008) On 2 October 2007, Portishead stated that the new album had been and was nearly complete, and was due for release in early April 2008.
The release was later pushed to 28 April. On 8 and 9 December 2007, the band curated the festival in, England. The festival featured their first full live sets in nearly 10 years. They premiered five tracks from the new album: 'Silence', 'Hunter', 'The Rip', 'We Carry On', and 'Machine Gun'. On 21 January 2008, a European tour to support the album was announced, together with a headline spot at the on 26 April 2008, their only U.S. Date on the tour. Third was made available on the week before release, attracting 327,000 listeners in just under 24 hours.
It was the first time Last.fm had made an album available before its official release date. The album was released on 29 April 2008 to coincide with the band's appearance at Coachella. Portishead's Geoff Barrow realised a 'boyhood fantasy' when of joined the band onstage at the 'ATP I'll Be Your Mirror' festival curated by Portishead in Asbury Park, NJ in October 2011. He contributed his verse from the P.E. Song 'Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos' over Portishead's single 'Machine Gun'. Post- Third (2008–present) On 18 May 2008, Barrow expressed Portishead's enthusiasm for recording new material on their official website's blog, stating that he 'can't wait to write some new tunes'.
On 28 September 2009, Barrow announced 'big plans' for a new project with a new angle, hinting that an album could arrive as soon as late 2010. Whilst the album had yet to materialise, on 9 December 2009, the band released the song ' for Human Rights Day to raise money for UK.
Additionally, on 3 December 2008, Universal Music Japan reissued the albums Dummy and Portishead in limited edition on. During Summer 2011, Portishead performed at a number of festivals in Europe, including, in Spain, the /Southside Festivals in Germany, and the music festival. The band also headlined and curated the line-up for two music festivals entitled I'll Be Your Mirror, in London at Alexandra Palace on 23 and 24 July. The second took place in Asbury Park, New Jersey from 30 September – 2 October.
Portishead then visited several cities in North America, including New York, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Seattle, Vancouver, and Denver during October. The hailed the concert and noted: 'horror-movie accents—Gothic organ, guitar lines thick with menacing reverb, spooky theremin—ensured a certain darkness'. They finished their tour with a jaunt to Australia and New Zealand. Barrow stated in a interview that he would begin work on his portion of the album in January 2012, jokingly pointing out that it could be another decade before a new album is released. In 2013 the band headlined the Other Stage at the Glastonbury Music festival and embarked on a European tour.
In summer 2014, they played several concerts around Europe. 2015 saw Portishead continue to perform live, playing festivals such as fib (Benicassim, Spain), Latitude (Southwold, Suffolk, UK), and the Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland).
Additionally, Portishead produced a cover of 's song ' for the soundtrack to the movie which had a Gala screening at the London Film Festival on 9 October 2015. In 2016, the band won an for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
On 22 June 2016, Portishead released an official video for 'SOS' that recontextualized the song in the wake of the then-recent murder of MP and the vote, taking place the next day; the video ends with Beth Gibbons reaching her hand out towards the viewer and then a quote by Cox appears: 'We have far more in common than which divides us.' Style Portishead's music was influenced by a wide range of singers and composers.
Gibbons' voice was compared to singer. Utley mentioned the spaghetti western guitar composed by; he said that 'Morricone's is the sort of soundtracks that I love'. Discography.
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Portishead's debut isn't just one of the best albums to rise from the short-lived trip-hop movement—it's one of the best albums of the '90s, period. Combining languid breakbeats and haunting synths, the album is a downtempo spy novel, evoking dark alleys, loaded glances, and sinister undercurrents. Beth Gibbons sings like a caged bird, resilient yet full of sorrow, and partner-in-crime Geoff Barrow builds beats like a cinematographer composes a frame, deftly balancing light and shadow. This thing will give you chills. Portishead's debut isn't just one of the best albums to rise from the short-lived trip-hop movement—it's one of the best albums of the '90s, period.
Combining languid breakbeats and haunting synths, the album is a downtempo spy novel, evoking dark alleys, loaded glances, and sinister undercurrents. Beth Gibbons sings like a caged bird, resilient yet full of sorrow, and partner-in-crime Geoff Barrow builds beats like a cinematographer composes a frame, deftly balancing light and shadow. This thing will give you chills.
Portishead may not have invented trip-hop, but they were among the first to popularize it, particularly in America. Taking their cue from the slow, elastic beats that dominated Massive Attack's Blue Lines and adding elements of cool jazz, acid house, and soundtrack music, Portishead created an atmospheric, alluringly dark sound. The group wasn't as avant-garde as Tricky, nor as tied to dance traditions as Massive Attack; instead, it wrote evocative pseudo-cabaret pop songs that subverted their conventional structures with experimental productions and rhythms of trip-hop. As a result, Portishead appealed to a broad audience - not just electronic dance and alternative rock fans, but thirtysomethings who found techno, trip-hop, and dance as exotic as worldbeat. Before Portishead released their debut album, Dummy, in 1994, trip-hop's broad appeal wasn't apparent, but the record became an unexpected success in Britain, topping most year-end critics polls and earning the prestigious Mercury Music Prize; in America, it also became an underground hit, selling over 150,000 copies before the group toured the U.S. Following the success of Dummy, legions of imitators appeared over the next two years, but Portishead remained quiet as they worked on their second album. Named after the West Coast shipping town where Geoff Barrow grew up, Portishead formed in Bristol, England, in 1991.
Prior to the group's formation, Barrow had worked as a tape operator at the Coach House studio, where he met Massive Attack. Through that group, he began working with Tricky, producing the rapper's track for a Sickle Cell charity album. Barrow also wrote songs for Neneh Cherry's Homebrew, though only 'Somedays' appeared on the record. Around the time of Portishead's formation, he had begun to earn a reputation as a remix producer, working on tracks by Primal Scream, Paul Weller, Gabrielle, and Depeche Mode. Barrow met Beth Gibbons, who had been singing in pubs, in 1991 on a job scheme.
Over the next few years, the pair began writing music, often with jazz guitarist Adrian Utley, who had previously played with both Big John Patton and the Jazz Messengers. Before releasing a recording, Portishead completed the short film To Kill a Dead Man, an homage to '60s spy movies. Barrow and Gibbons acted in the noirish film and provided the soundtrack, which earned the attention of Go! By the fall, Portishead had signed with Go! And their debut album, Dummy, was released shortly afterward.
Dummy was recorded with engineer Dave MacDonald, who played drums and drum machines, and guitarist Utley, who rounded out Portishead's lineup. Both Barrow and Gibbons were media-shy - the vocalist refused to participate in any interviews - which meant that the album received little attention outside of the weekly U.K. Music press, which praised the album and its two singles, 'Numb' and 'Sour Times,' heavily. And Portishead had developed a clever marketing strategy based on the group's atmospheric videos that began to attract attention. Melody Maker, Mixmag, and The Face named Dummy as 1994's album of the year, and early in 1995, 'Glory Box' debuted at number 13 without any radio play. Around the same time, 'Sour Times' entered regular rotation on MTV in America.
Within a few weeks, Dummy and 'Sour Times' were alternative rock hits in the U.S. Back in the U.K., the album had crossed over into the mainstream, becoming a fixture in the British Top 40. In July, the record won the Mercury Music Prize for Album of the Year, beating highly touted competition from Blur, Suede, Oasis, and Pulp. Following the Mercury Music Prize award, Barrow retreated to Coach House to begin work on Portishead's second album. The self-titled record finally appeared in September 1997.
The live PNYC followed late the next year. Portishead went on hiatus starting in 1999, and Barrow, Utley and Gibbons worked on their own projects. In 2001, Barrow formed Invada Records, an experimental label that included Koolism on its roster. Barrow and Utley also recorded a cover of the instrumental rock classic 'Apache' as the Jimi Entley Sound that was released as a limited edition 7' single in 2002. The pair also worked as producers, with Barrow working under the moniker Fuzzface on Stephanie McKay's McKay album in 2003, and Barrow and Utley co-produced the Coral's 2005 album The Invisible Invasion. Gibbons collaborated with Rustin' Man, a.k.a. Former Talk Talk member Paul Webb on the 2003 album Out of Season (Gibbons had also appeared on a few tracks by Webb's previous project, ORang).
Portishead reconvened in 2005, performing their first live dates in seven years, including an appearance at the Tsunami Benefit Concert in Bristol, and recording material for their next album. Their version of 'Un Jour Comme un Autre (Requiem for Anna)' appeared on 2006's Serge Gainsbourg tribute Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisted, and in 2007 the band curated the Nightmare Before Christmas All Tomorrow's Parties festival. In 2008, a decade after their last album, Portishead returned with Third, the trio's most challenging, unpredictable work yet. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. ORIGIN Bristol, England.
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