dirge – fountain ep (autres direction in music)

i stopped listening to the radio show ‘cb radio’, that treats alt country music, so as to listen to this release. when playing the album and switching from the fm to md/tape channel, it felt exactly the same, as if i haven’t changed anything and the atmosphere remained the same. as if this album was played on ‘cb radio’. so what do we have here? well, generally alt neo country, no depression, desert music. slow, melancholy, dawdling. sad violins, quiet rhythm section, unnoticeable guitars...the refrences are something between lambchop, mogwai or maybe palace... this ep is a collection of tracks made somewhere between december 2002 and july 2003. played live and recorded by david fontaine in a house in the middle of nowhere in february. each song is created as a consequence of a personal experience. each song has a story behind it. the third one is made right after some lousy new year’s eve party. when after one hard night in liverpool his friend lois had woken up hungover saying “i have a weird silence in my head”, they decided that they had to write a song. that is the story behind the fourth song. at one of their gigs, in nanets, they met up with stephane of autres directions and they seemed to like the idea that their music can be downloaded. so there’s this release. concise and to the point, with its five songs it says all that there is to be said, it quickly goes through the experienced stories and doesn’t leave space for you to ask for more. and now we go back again to the radio channel and the frequency one hundred and three.