Just a Souvenir
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Just a Souvenir is an album
by Squarepusher
, which was released to the general listening public on October 27, 2008. The album had been available to purchase as a download from bleep.com
on September 15, 2008.
The album originated in a daydream, in which Tom Jenkinson envisioned a rock band performing a concert against the backdrop of a large, glowing coathanger
. The performance quickly became surreal: among other things, a river forces the band to kayak whilst performing; the guitarist is able to accelerate or decelerate time at will; and every drum in the drummer's kit begins to switch places with each another. As such, the majority of the album consists of Jenkinson's own version of jazz fusion
, threaded through with classical guitar, math rock
and funk recordings.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by Squarepusher
Squarepusher
Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence....
, which was released to the general listening public on October 27, 2008. The album had been available to purchase as a download from bleep.com
Bleep.com
Bleep is an online music store focusing on the independent music sector. Created by Warp Records and launched in January 2004, Bleep was one of the UK's first legal music download businesses and the only one to originate from within the music industry...
on September 15, 2008.
The album originated in a daydream, in which Tom Jenkinson envisioned a rock band performing a concert against the backdrop of a large, glowing coathanger
Clothes hanger
A clothes hanger, coat hanger or coathanger, is a device in the shape of:* Human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of a coat, jacket, sweater, shirt, blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles, with a lower bar for the hanging of trousers or skirts.* Clamp for the hanging of...
. The performance quickly became surreal: among other things, a river forces the band to kayak whilst performing; the guitarist is able to accelerate or decelerate time at will; and every drum in the drummer's kit begins to switch places with each another. As such, the majority of the album consists of Jenkinson's own version of jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
, threaded through with classical guitar, math rock
Math rock
Math rock is a rhythmically complex guitar-based style of experimental rock that emerged in the 1980s and that was very influenced by progressive rock like King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Henry Cow - and 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage...
and funk recordings.
Track listing
- "Star Time 2" – 5:02
- "The Coathanger" – 4:03
- "Open Society" – 1:04
- "A Real Woman" – 3:04
- "Delta-V" – 4:08
- "Aqueduct" – 1:38
- "Potential Govaner" – 2:11
- "Planet Gear" – 4:03
- "Tensor in Green" – 3:42
- "The Glass Road" – 7:10
- "Fluxgate" – 1:08
- "Duotone Moonbeam" – 2:27
- "Quadrature" - 3:20
- "Yes Sequitur" - 1:27
- "Syntax 2" - 1:45 (Japanese Bonus Track)