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Five Perspectives (On The Same Event)

from Five Perspectives (On The Same Event) : Re​-​Release by Andrew Paine

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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still
boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one
discovers that it is not boring at all." While it would be naïve to peg
Glasgow’s Andrew Paine as a direct descendent of the father of
experimental minimalism—ignoring everything that has happened in music
in between-- John Cage’s maxim on repetition goes a long way in
capturing our experience of “Five Perspectives (On The Same Event)”,
released on Apollolaan Recordings last year.

Riding on a single, twenty-eight-minute track, Paine departs from a
simple leitmotif, repeats it ad finitum, and sends it flying
everywhere, nowhere, and straight into the pleasure centers in your
brain.

His half-sung, half-spoken incarnation of the phrase “I was born
in silence” may seem a bit grating at first, but it begins to grow on
you after the first ten or twelve replays; once it really becomes
engrained, it is likely to summon flashes of everything from black
spiritual song to Gregorian chant and Buddhist prayer. Harmonica,
guitar and miscellaneous effects snake in and out of the mix,
occasionally becoming animals in their own right and ousting the vocals
with ominous grey cumuli of drone.

When Paine’s incantation returns further on in journey with a couple of
new words added into the equation, we feel light-years away from where
we started, and shocked by the amount of psychological ground we have
covered with so little material to ride on. “Five perspectives” is one
beautiful anomaly of an album, mostly because it doesn’t actually
develop. It develops inside of your head, and that is no small
accomplishment. 8/10 -- Emilie Friedlander (15 April, 2009)

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Five Perspectives (on the same event)

I was born to silence
In the old hall gardens
In the night time moon-glade
To the scent of blossoms
By the giant hedgerow
And the sun breaks gently
Near the bleached white building
Dreams a man who's walking
On the snapshot beach side
Swoops a blue black swallow
In the countryside
I was born to silence
I was born to silence
I was born to silence

Andrew Paine - 2009

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from Five Perspectives (On The Same Event) : Re​-​Release, released July 20, 2017
Andrew Paine - Voice, Guitar, Harmonica and FX.

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Andrew Paine is a Glasgow based musician: his work ranging from solo voice, through layered howling guitars, gentle piano interludes, oblique electronics and wherever he likes in between.

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