Quiet Village Silent Movie

I lifted the image from the Beardo thread - hope that's OK.

The only info I have is from a thread on DJ History. They say there end of April, and imply that it's on !K7, but there's nothing on their website. The myspace just says "The album is finished".

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it. I really love some of the tracks I've heard. Will write more (and maybe post Drax, since it's not gong to be on the album) later.

sweeeet

haven't listened to the songs i have in a long time, maybe it will sound new again!

what is the beat in drax from?

of course those assholes would leave Can't Be Beat off the vinyl 8[

!K7 press sheet says summer.

if this is on !K7 can we expect a run of more than 500?

i've heard about half of these tracks off podcasts, mixes, blogs.
"if this is on !K7 can we expect a run of more than 500?"
i hope so.

Winston: Track B contains a sample from Double Fantasy's track "Children Of The Universe", taken from their album Universal Ave.

grady, you could always buy the Drax 12" from discogs for $124

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I just dropped way two much on the new Quiet Village and Otterman Empire. I guess its drop way too much now or WAY WAY WAY too much a year or two down the road. Anyone know where I can find the 1st Quiet Village? Is it a lost cause?

-- grady, Monday, February 6, 2006 10:02 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

heard a rumour that these guys were actually signed to EMI for a year or so, but got dropped without putting anything out. lololol @ EMI, u mad.

jaxon, i've got that lp, i was referring the tha BEAT itself (unless they did it themselves, but it's too familiar to me)

so alan parsons is ok with this shit, eh?

OK, so I think there are various things that are quite interesting about this.

First, can we sort out the sources for the six tracks on the singles?

Drax is Double Fantasy, Children Of The Universe, and something else?
Too High to Move is apparently Giorgio Moroder's track Fly Too High, which I don't know, but is the spoken word vocal from that or something else?
Pillow Talk by Quiet Village is an edit of What Goes Up by Alan Parsons. I'm pretty sure that the begining part is actually from Voyager, which is the track before What on the album Pyramid.
Can't be Beat ?
Free Rider ?
Circus of Horror ?

I don't know any of the originals, actually, so to what extent are these "edits" or just sample-based tracks?

Is it digging and recontextualising or making something new or half-way between?

Second, although this stuff fits nicely in various genres (Quiet Village tracks have popped up on recent mixes I've heard by Trickski, or on some Balearic mixes, or on Beats in Space or whatever), what I like about it is that there is a definite aesthetic or mood to it that goes beyond that. (Although Free Rider and Circus of Horror maybe fit more with their Fragments of Fear mixes, whereas the other stuff and the remixes is more of a piece, along with the Rekid record, maybe).

So, what is that aesthetic, what are the antecedents etc? Also, please talk about the remixes here too.

When Too High to Move popped up at the end of a mix, I had that moment where you know something but you can't remember what it is, and I thought DJ Shadow for a moment. Which is a good reference point, actually. What Does Your Soul Look Like? could easily be a QV track, for example. Plus early Shadow has Alan Parsons samples, doesn't it?

So Trip Hop:Hip Hop is as QV:disco/prog/horror soundtracks/soft rock?

In terms of the remixes, they are obviously dub, in some sense, but again they've got a really distinctive atmosphere about them. I think maybe it's to do with what gets the delay FX and the phasing and so on. It seems like they're picking out different elements or frequencies or whatever, but I need to listen more closely.

Presumably they are named after the Martin Denny track, so I was thinking that maybe that was the third element: Exotica.

During an engagement at the Shell Bar, Denny discovered what would become his trademark and the birth of "exotica". The bar had a very exotic setting: a little pool of water right outside the bandstand, rocks and palm trees growing around, very quiet and relaxed. As the group played at night, Denny became aware of bullfrogs croaking. The croaking blended with the music and when the band stopped, so did the frogs. Denny thought this to be a coincidence, but when he tried the tune again later, the same thing happened. This time, his bandmates began doing all sorts of tropical bird calls as a gag. The band thought it nothing more than a joke. The next day, though, someone approached Denny and asked if he would do the arrangement with the birds and frogs. The more Denny thought about it, the more it made sense. At rehearsal, he had the band do "Quiet Village" with each doing a bird call spaced apart. Denny did the frog part on a grooved cylinder and the whole thing became incorporated into the arrangement of "Quiet Village".

Although there aren't actually frog noises (although there are on the African Queen remix!) most of the time, I think that's the atmosphere I get from all the records.

Actually, I just looked at the myspace again and this is pretty obvious!

good record:

http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/D/denny/denny_quietf.jpg

Days: Chi-Lites, "Coldest Days of My Life."
Drax: Double Fantasy "Children Of The Universe" and something else?
Too High to Move: Giorgio Moroder "Fly Too High (Inst)" from Foxes OST
Pillow Talk: Alan Parsons "What Goes Up" & "Voyager"
Can't be Beat: Trade Mark "Days of Pearly Spencer"
Free Rider ?
Circus of Horror ?

well anyway it's old news to have beefs with disco edits, because disco edits are just a subset of the larger BEARDO DISCO phenomenon.

and as we've discussed elsewhere, BEARDO DISCO is not merely the new electroclash, it is actually the new TRIP HOP.

-- renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:11 (1 year ago) Link

it's pretty much the new trip hop BECAUSE
1) pastiche factor = "hey look, the best moments of old school rap, WITHOUT THE RAP"

2) uneasy hipsters = "hey, couldn't i just be spinning alice coltrane records instead of major force west??"

-- renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:57 (1 year ago) Link

1. Victoria's Secret
5. Pacific Rhythm
6. Broken Promises
9. Gold Rush
10. Singing Sand
11. Utopia
12. Keep on Rolling

^^^ are these all new? has anyone heard them?

i hear Pacific Rhythm and found it fairly awful.

heard

of course those assholes would leave Can't Be Beat off the vinyl 8[

^^^^^^^^^^

Too High To Move (spoken word): Captain and Tennille "Never Make Your Move Too Soon"
Utopia: Andreas Vollenweider "Steam Forest"

what happened to drax.mp3 and negro.mp3?

i think the QVP remixes are much better than the QVP "tracks"

i agree. i finally picked up the remix of "dave's sex bits" the other day and it is like some kind of undersea spa treatment.

<3 the cosmo vitelli rmx

man this album is killing me right now, i had no idea it was all edits...

oh man i do not feel the remixes at all but i am not so down with radioslave/rekid in general... love love love the re-edits though

that double fantasy lp is actually pretty good

you have to turn the bass up and treble down though

this cd is awesome!!!!!!!!

<3 utopia

more disco less atmospherics and wanky 70s shit plzz

eh this is what i was expecting

12's vs Lp's

99% sure utopia is Andreas Vollenweider

<3 the cosmo vitelli rmx

-- max, Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:41 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

it was inevitable that this dude would be involved with a project that interests me. i should probably seek this out.

more disco less atmospherics and wanky 70s shit plzz

-- jergïns, Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

fuck you

not milquetoast!

finally heard this. comes out soon. this week, I think. verdict is must cop ASAP.

Silent Movie is the score to an amazing imaginary movie about an Italian millionaire's undersea adventures set in the 1970s.

for those without promos/rips etc, here's a few tracks :
http://media.k7-de.com/mp3player/quietvillage.html
looks like i may have to buy this as its all rather nice.

oh, and release date : 12th May.

via the fb group:

Quiet Village Gigs 2008

19.04. Quiet Village DJ set (Joel only), London, Go!Zilla

15.05. QV DJ set (Joel only), Allez Allez, London

20.05. QV live set @ La Fleche D’Or, Paris / RECORD RELEASE PARTY

29.05. QV DJ set @ ParisParis, Paris, France (w/ Chateau Flight)

31.05. QV live set @ Mutek Festival, Montreal, Canada

NEW! 14.06. QV live set @ MEET & BEAT @ HOME / Offenbach, Germany

20.06. QV live set @ Sonar (Sonar Village stage),Spain

13.07. QV live set @ Oxygen Festival, Dublin, Ireland

20.07. QV live set @ Glade Festival, UK

NEW! 24.08. QV live set @Electric Elephant Festival, Croatia

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Quiet-Village/8191049833

wonder what goes into the live sets. laptoppage?

reports from the field:

Dude you didn't miss anything. Somebody was djing some awful slow jam when I got there, then suddenly someone said, "Hello, we're Quiet Village. Enjoy the movie.". Then they walked away and there was a reel of film clips playing and the album played from beginning to end. Seriously, like off a cd. They never did anything. I can't believe they advertised as "Live". So lame.

saw em do this in seattle last week. i thought parts were really affecting. liked it. and matt dj'd as radio slave after. was fun.

I guess it's all about expectations ... I wasn't expecting a live gig, just laptop + movie

cielo billed it as something like "U.S. debut for Quiet Village Silent Movie - an audio/visual experience"

i just found the vinyl locally for 17 bucks, sitting in the stacks of 'electronic music' @ 2nd hand tunes. are there really only 500 copies of this??

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=1318855&ev=rb

wtf @ swedish dude trynna get 75 bucks for it?

neat mix ...
http://www.themostinfluential.com/RADIOPLAYER/files/NEWWAVE.mp3
spotting has already started at djh if anyone's curious about the tracklisting
-- jaime, Friday, June 6, 2008 3:30 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

where's the djh thread? i don't recognize a single track from that mix. maybe the first is gary numan?

http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?p=353862

yeah that first one is numan

xxpost. nevermind. found it http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35202

Man, I'm not really feeling this album at all.

I was supposed to play the Elbo Room before I was booted in place of QV. Oh, well. I would've had at least some of the room dancing!

i noticed that philip sherburne talked about the mutek set in his month in techno column. i didn't really get the vibe that it was "a winking, conceptualist lark".

the only way i can assume its 'winking' is because they're basically just looping other ppl's music?

he was describing the audio/ visual show

oh nev mind then

captain jay vee, my friend throws that elbo room night. i can talk to him. would love to see you play.

thanks jaxon. Yeah, I was looking forward to it so I was surprised to find they got QV instead. Granted, I'm sure they're a bigger draw than I would've been so I hope it worked out well for your friend. Maybe later in the year. I really like SF and would love to play there.

well, i was feeling generous -- i mean, i could've gotten all sour grapes that they weren't "really" there "playing" their music, but like i said, i'd already decided that certain laptoppers should just cede the stage and be happy with playback (something akin to tape music "performances" of the '60s). and since the vibe in the room, to my mind, turned into something different than the norm, and a little special, i cut'em some slack.

what i'm trying to say is that both pitchfork things i've seen on qv seem to imply that they're trying to pull a fast one and i don't get that feeling at all. i agreed with the rest of what you said.

nah, i didn't mean that at all.

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?