Black Paris 86 is the first full-length album by ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

/trip-hop duo Arms and Sleepers

Arms and Sleepers

Arms and Sleepers is an ambient/trip-hop duo consisting of Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic . The band was formed in 2006 and has since released a handful of albums and EPs, most notably the Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive EP from 2006, the well-received album Black Paris 86 released in 2007, and...

, and their fifth release overall. The album was released on CD in November 2007, and on vinyl in October 2008.

Trivia

The vinyl release for Black Paris 86 was limited 2xLP to 500 units, with the first 100 units pressed on blue vinyl and containing a bonus insert. All of the audio was remastered specifically for the vinyl release. Sides A, B, and C included the three movements from the original CD, Unspoken, Spoken, and Hidden. Side D of the vinyl featured two bonus tracks that were not included on the CD.

The CD version had been sold out for a while but was repressed for a final run of 500 copies by Expect Candy in early 2011.

Track listing

All songs by Arms and Sleepers (M. Lewis & M. Ramic)

1. "Greetings From Tokyo" - 2:40
2. "A Mission To Prague" - 5:18
3. "Lausanne" - 4:20
4. "Black Paris 86" - 5:10
5. "Seems (If Ever)" - 4:46
6. "71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance" - 4:41
7. "Warm" - 4:04
8. "I Was A Climber" - 1:29
9. "Butterflycatcher" - 3:47
10. "Like A Typewriter From A Moving Train" - 1:32
11. "Rooftops/Lanterns" - 4:49
12. "we're all Paris now (pt. 3)" - 5:17

Personnel

• Written and performed by Arms and Sleepers (Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic)
• Mixed and produced by Arms and Sleepers, except tracks 2 & 7, mixed and produced by Arms and Sleepers and Adam Arrigo
• Recorded and mixed at Burning Houses, Dec. '06 - Feb. '07, except tracks 2 & 7, recorded and mixed at Burning Houses and Main Drag Studios, Aug. - Oct. '06

• Adam Arrigo - vocals on tracks 2 & 7, additional guitar on track 7
• Matt La Joie - vocals on tracks 6 & 9, additional horns on tracks 8 & 11, banjo on track 11
• Megan Schenk - violin on track 10
• Bob Ludwig - "lame shit"

• Mastered at Peerless Mastering by Jeff Lipton
• Live visuals by Dado Ramadani
• Artwork by Caleb Chabot for Ericrock

External links

• Official blog
• Arms and Sleepers on MySpace