Remix EP Available As A Download
21 March 05
Rachel Goswell's debut solo album - "Waves Are Universal" - was released last year; now comes this EP of wonderfully sympathetic remixes.
"Waves Are Universal" was an album of welcome surprises - many expected that Rachel's solo work would take its musical cues from Slowdive's mesmeric swirls of sound or from Mojave 3's plangent country melodies. Instead, she revealed a flowering talent for gentle, folk-inflected songwriting, garnishing deceptively simple tunes with unexpected instrumentation and artful splashes of environmental sound - singing throughout with real sweetness and delightful clarity.
The album gathered plenty of admirers, a couple of whom volunteered for remix duty. This EP features two mixes apiece from Ulrich Schnauss and
The Earlies, working under their Names On Records guise.
It was released last month as a limited edition clear vinyl 12", but this music deserves to be heard more widely and so is now being made available as a digital download.
On "Coastline", Ulrich Schnauss blends Rachel's vocals into cinematic swathes of warm electronica, while Names On Records construct a delicately-building two-part suite which takes the luminously-ascending "Plucked" into another dimension altogether.
The tracklisting in full is :
1. Coastline (Ulrich Schnauss Vocal Mix)
2. Coastline (Ulrich Schnauss Instrumental Mix)
3. Plucked 1 (Re-produced by Names On Records)
4. Plucked 2 (Re-produced by Names On Records)
To buy the EP, which comes with artwork and is available in the MP3 and AAC formats, click here.