Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Calla Title: Scavengers Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Young God Records Release Date: 1/16/2001 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Indie & Lo-Fi, Experimental Music, Dance Pop, Progressive, Progressive Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 658457001523 |
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 | Calla Scavengers Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Calla's debut album was a striking blend of gutbucket riffs and sonic abstraction, standard rock instrumentation and electronic programming, big guitars and subtle ambient detailing. Scavengers, the New York-based threesom... more » |
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Amazon.com Calla's debut album was a striking blend of gutbucket riffs and sonic abstraction, standard rock instrumentation and electronic programming, big guitars and subtle ambient detailing. Scavengers, the New York-based threesome's second CD, is less intriguing than the first disc, but it's still compelling. Calla certainly craft fine melodies but their first concern seems to be sound itself. Guitarist Aurelio Valle, whose playing draws from dirty blues and Morricone soundtracks, is a master of tone and inflection. He can animate the simplest guitar parts with subtle inflections. That's one reason the group can pull off something like "Hover over Nowhere," a track in which the song gets left behind, only to be followed by a lovely and lengthy coda. Layering vocals on top of catchy guitar, "Tijerina" displays the group's taste for dramatic grandeur. Scavengers (which was coproduced by Michael Gira) is a solid variation on the band's first CD. It'll be interesting to see where the group goes from here. --Fred Cisterna Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsLow Key Metamorphosis Dirk Hugo | Cape Town, South Africa | 03/16/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "What sets Calla apart from other brooding post-rock outfits (Idaho, Red House Painters, Low et al) is not so much the arrangements, instrumentation or the presentation of their material, but rather the way in which their songs are structured. Beyond the verse-chorus concept lies a gradual shift in theme and mood, drifting in and out of more abstract instrumental passages. This is a much more subtle take on the cut-and-paste ethic which contemporary culture has embraced over the last decade or two: time-stretched and layered instead of the more jarring and schizophrenic methods employed to date. Although superbly textured, on first listen this album may well sound featureless and indistinct, but a little perseverance reveals a refreshingly different pop sensibility, one which brings to mind the finest moments of The Velvet Underground." Quiet Storm hush lush | Orbit, Sector 9 | 08/05/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "With all that is mundane in a senseless music industry there comes a time when a album comes about that makes one sit down and listen, listen to it for what it's worth. Every cling of the guitar, swoosh of atmosphere pushed out by methodical drummming, bass lines that bleed narcotics, and a voice that could gently whisper you pains which, till then, you never knew existed. All this is intrinsic to this album with nothing more and nothing less. This album is good and the music is stunning to the point in which I asked myself "What is this other stuff I've been listening to?"... :)" Elcellent mellowing-out album Patrick Roberts | Los Angeles, CA USA | 05/19/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is a great ablum. I've had it for a couple of months and have listened to it probably at least 20 times. My favorite tracks are #1 and #4, although there's not a bad song on it. It's kind of hard for me to describe what Calla sound like. Reading the other reviews I just found out that one of the guys was from Bowery Electric (a group I really liked), and you can hear some of B.E. in Calla. It's good music for when you feel emotionally or physically run down or just want to chill out. It's a bit like Low in that the style is really loose and sometimes elegantly sparse. It also reminds me a bit of Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mira and for some reason Massive Attack."
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