Brief Episodes of Joy
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Brief Episodes of Joy is the sixteenth album from Arthur Loves Plastic
and was released in 2008.
for Best Recording in the Electronica Category. In the 2009 Just Plain Folks
Music Awards Brief Episodes of Joy was nominated in the Electronica Album category, while the track "Unbelievable (Techno Squirrels remixed by ALP)" was nominated in the Electronica Song category.
lends her vocals to this brooding release that explores the depths between twilight and sunrise."
* Remixed for The Tapegerm Collective
Arthur Loves Plastic
Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C. based electronic music recording artist Bev Stanton.- Biography :...
and was released in 2008.
Awards
Brief Episodes of Joy won the 2008 WammieWashington Area Music Awards
The Washington Area Music Awards are a music award for Washington, D.C. area performers, issued by the Washington Area Music Association . The awards are issued at an annual awards program....
for Best Recording in the Electronica Category. In the 2009 Just Plain Folks
Just Plain Folks Music Organization
Just Plain Folks Music Organization is a website and community founded by Brian Austin Whitney with the intent of helping anyone involved in the music industry to network, share their experiences, build relationships, and grow...
Music Awards Brief Episodes of Joy was nominated in the Electronica Album category, while the track "Unbelievable (Techno Squirrels remixed by ALP)" was nominated in the Electronica Song category.
Release notes
"Lisa MoscatielloLisa Moscatiello
Lisa Moscatiello is an American singer who is part of the Washington, DC area music scene. She is listed in Music Hound's Folk: Essential Album Guide, and is most often categorized as a folk vocalist...
lends her vocals to this brooding release that explores the depths between twilight and sunrise."
Audio previews
Four tracks from the album can be previewed in their entirety or downloaded for free from the Arthur Loves Plastic - Big Contact music podcast.Track listing
The track "Time Marches On" is also known as "Killer Bees".Personnel
- Produced by Bev StantonArthur Loves PlasticArthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C. based electronic music recording artist Bev Stanton.- Biography :...
in the Flamingo Room and at Sligo House, Silver SpringSilver Spring, MarylandSilver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...
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Additional musicians
- Lisa MoscatielloLisa MoscatielloLisa Moscatiello is an American singer who is part of the Washington, DC area music scene. She is listed in Music Hound's Folk: Essential Album Guide, and is most often categorized as a folk vocalist...
- VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
(1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 12) - Lisa Moscatiello - GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
(2, 4, 8) - Cystem - Guitar LoopsMusic loopIn electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material. Short sections of material can be repeated to create ostinato patterns...
(3, 9, 11, 12) * - Jon Nazdin - BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(5) - Robbie Magruder - DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
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* Remixed for The Tapegerm Collective
Samples
- Dialogue from "Nights of Love in Lesbos", a reading of The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre LouÿsPierre LouÿsPierre Louÿs was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."-Life:...
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