Resent and the April Sunshine Shed
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Resent and the April Sunshine Shed is the fourth official full-length release from electronic music
producer
Benn Jordan
as The Flashbulb.
This album features a range of new instrumentation added to Jordan's list. The album has overtones of acoustic and electric guitar
and bass guitar
and many more peripherals were used during the recording of this album, including live drum
s, cello
, turntables
/scratching
, India
n-style singing, a grand piano, and a renewed emphasis on warm analogue synthesizer
tones.
As the first official release of Jordan's label Alphabasic, this album (catalogue number alph001) is something of an experiment in enhanced CD
, featuring an interactive menu that pops up when the disc is placed in a PC that contains five previously unreleased tracks, wallpapers
, contact information and a music video for a song called "Autumn Windows".
for a song called "Autumn Windows" is a darkly portrayed stop-motion claymation cartoon created by Jordan himself. It is about an orange
who leaves his home to meet a fellow orange he falls in love with only to have his companion meet a deadly fate.
in general and the MP3
s of this CD in particular as well as biographical and contact information in a link to AlphaBasic
's site.
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
Benn Jordan
Benn Jordan
Benn Lee Jordan is an American modern jazz and electronica musician operating under many pseudonyms. Since 1999 his most widely distributed and eclectic music has been released under the name of The Flashbulb...
as The Flashbulb.
This album features a range of new instrumentation added to Jordan's list. The album has overtones of acoustic and electric guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
and bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
and many more peripherals were used during the recording of this album, including live drum
Drum
The 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...
s, cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
, turntables
Turntablism
Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer.The word 'turntablist' was coined in 1995 by DJ Babu to describe the difference between a DJ who just plays records, and one who performs by touching and moving the records, stylus and mixer...
/scratching
Scratching
Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique used to produce distinctive sounds by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while optionally manipulating the crossfader on a DJ mixer. While scratching is most commonly associated with hip hop music, since the late 1980s, it has been used...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n-style singing, a grand piano, and a renewed emphasis on warm analogue synthesizer
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
tones.
As the first official release of Jordan's label Alphabasic, this album (catalogue number alph001) is something of an experiment in enhanced CD
Enhanced CD
Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players....
, featuring an interactive menu that pops up when the disc is placed in a PC that contains five previously unreleased tracks, wallpapers
Computer wallpaper
Wallpaper is an image used as a background of a graphical user interface on a computer screen or mobile communications device. On a computer it is usually for the desktop, while for a mobile phone it is usually the background for the 'home' or 'idle' screen...
, contact information and a music video for a song called "Autumn Windows".
Track listing
- "Sentroline Voyage" – 2:26
- "Delhi Ill" – 4:02
- "The Big Orange Love" – 3:45
- "Transient Skip" – 3:32
- "Come Horn" – 2:58
- "Delhi Ill (Up in Smoke)" – 3:44
- "Level Two Hundred" – 3:17
- "You Take the World's Weight Away" – 1:29
- "The April Sunshine Shed" – 3:20
- "Winter's Last Gasp" – 3:32
- "Elevator Fibbonachi" – 3:34
- "Delhi Ill (Six AM)" – 2:37
- "Follow the Smoke" – 0:50
- "Beaker Sunset" – 2:54
- "Do Not Sex to This" – 1:04
- "My New Red World" – 3:08
- "You're Streaming Again" – 2:42
- "The Future of Lethargy" – 1:57
- "Visual Chicago Acid+ (Whistle Tip Mix)" – 3:52
- "My New Red World (Reprise)" – 5:24
MP3 tracks
- "Delhi Ill (2am Club Malta Mix)" – 4:54
- "Fuck Jason (Pretendo Mix)" – 2:05
- "The Fall of Hantasy" – 2:52
- "Visual Chicago Acid+" – 3:23 ("originally appears on the onlineInternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
-only release "FLY!") - "Wash Away" – 3:00
Music video
The included music videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for a song called "Autumn Windows" is a darkly portrayed stop-motion claymation cartoon created by Jordan himself. It is about an orange
Orange (fruit)
An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....
who leaves his home to meet a fellow orange he falls in love with only to have his companion meet a deadly fate.
- "Autumn Windows" – 2:35
Other material
The other parts of the enhanced portion of the disc are publicity photos of Jordan, album-themed computer wallpaper, an explanation of Jordan's sharing policy of his musicMusic
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
in general and the MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
s of this CD in particular as well as biographical and contact information in a link to AlphaBasic
AlphaBasic
AlphaBASIC is a computer programming language created by Alpha Microsystems in 1976. The language was written by Alpha Microsystems employees Paul Edelstein, Dick Wilcox and Bob Courier.-Unique Features:...
's site.