Quiet Village Silent Movie

this album is like Moodymann for white music. not 100% wack, but pretty blandly inoffensive and not really very interesting to me. the fact that they take writing credit for it is pretty retarded too.

has anyone mentioned High Llamas on this thread? or any of the balearic threads? cos this album kinda reminds me of the High Llamas a bit, or their Hawaii album at least, minus the indie vocals and plus weed.

I like this album, which has made me go back to listening to the Chi-Lites. Never heard of it until that Pitchfork "Most Overlooked Records- 2008" article a few months ago.

fuck this record is pretty cool.....apart from sounding like 90s chillout

#1 record of summer 2008, for me!

and it's now out of print, so if you see one snap it up if you don't have it already! seems like too many rights holders came forward to collect their due...

and xpost to pipecock above, doesn't kdj do the same thing?

lol, did they honestly think they'd get away with that?!

it's a shame because it is a great record. it walks a verrrrrrry fine line between chillout cliche grossness and being good, but stays on the right side for the most part.

their RA podcast possibly better than the album

Thanks for the reminder- I'd been putting off buying this for ages and had noticed it was getting scarce wherever I went music shopping. Just ordered a copy from K7 for a very reasonable $12, along with the new Circlesquare.

Singing Sand is my favorite track on here.. *so* 90s chillout. but i always loved the idea of 90s chillout more than 98% of the music it produced, so.. i guess if 90s chillout was as good as this song, maybe it wouldn't be so maligned and hated.

this is a good soundtrack to reading roberto bolano fwiw

hmmm what other 90s chillout does this sound like? i think the "chillout cliche grossness" of this album might be a little overstated simply by virtue of BEING a downtempo "chillout" record in 2008.

moreover: For me, a lot of kuniyuki (who i love) tracks lean far more towards the whole hookah-lounge-chillout-dreadfullness than the QV, but that might be just because of the live instruments/fretless bass factor. QV is more crusty and dusty but do those attributes even matter w/regards to "chill factor"?

i haven't read this thread since the album came out so maybe those point have been brought up, but anyway i think there's a fair amount to discuss w/regards to this album's context in 2009 and what it means and all that.

i guess the album kind of brings it back full circle to alex patterson spinning AOR in the lol chill-out room at Oz

new copies £6 on for amazon.
bargain.
had listened to this lot via spotify (or other stuff that isn't on album) and was wanting to pick up a copy.
ta for the nudge re it being out of print.

had to send back 9 of the 10 copies the store i worked at over christmas had. :( might mean it'll turn up in some places at a lower price tho.

Still great for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Went looking for some of the samples.

Circus of Horror:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sCb8N9MzdY

"He is not only gone, but he has ta-ken ev-ery-thing that they have" monologue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHb7zA8SspI

The rest of Too High To Move is a slowed down Giorgio Moroder instrumental...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVw6gqkNHM

...of the Janis Ian's 1979 single Fly Too High:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTjbz9NqX_U

http://www.discogs.com/QV-Social-Music-Change/release/6235869

https://soundcloud.com/rekids/aa-quiet-village-untitled-vocal-version

i still listen to this

Same here

People still getting offended tho

Expansive09 February 8, 2015
referencing Silent Movie, CD, Album

Interesting cd if your blatantly ignorant of all the artists that where ripped-off and never made mention of in the liner noted. Sacrilege by the label K7 which should have been sued for releasing tripe like this.
I contacted Andreas Vollenweider's (a man whose music is truly inspirational!) management to advise them off the theft of Vollenweider's music on the release. Hopefully this cd is now just a coaster in the studios coffee room!

wow.
so much anger for someone who listens to such calming music.

same x3, really really great disc

i was disappointed that "drax" never made it on cd... it's "children of the universe" by double fantasy album with a super slow tribal-ish beat on top. so vibey

album

went through a phase with this earlier this year. super underrated and held up way better than i remembered.

joel martin is now doing somethin under the name velvet season & the hearts of gold. they put out a sanctioned edit from the stems of this balearic bomb this year: clive steven - mystery man. very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JmTaNH4b7M

did not know one of these guys is radio slave. i remember not liking the album as much as those first two twelve inches.

yeah i missed that brainchild reissue :

so good

revive!

listening through we are family lp yesterday and got here and was like "ahhh there you are!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zImRWMMZl-A

but i'm wrong, and based on a snippet i heard this cover is the correct answer:

"pacific rhythm" is ryuichi sakamoto track from 'summer nerves.' straight sample jack, i don't even know that it's looped
― Bangelo, Friday, April 25, 2008 6:36 AM (thirteen years ago)

both released in 1979.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEqgfZfTToI

bought a folk comp a few months back and when the groove of this track kicked in, took me several days to realise where i had heard it before.

Has anyone ever been able to figure out what the sample source for Singing Sand is?

New material coming soon apparently

Oh wow nice! Always adored Silent Movie