First Light's Freeze

by Castanets

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1.	(The Waves Are Rolling Beneath Your Skin) 00:28	buy track
2.	Into the Night 04:03	buy track
3.	A Song Is Not The Song Of The World 03:56	buy track
4.	Good Friend, Yr Hunger 02:03	buy track
5.	(We Drew Uncertain Breath) 00:28	buy track
6.	Bells Aloud 04:50	buy track
7.	First Light's Freeze 02:16	buy track
8.	Evidence (A Mask Of Horizon, Distortion Of Form) 00:55	buy track
9.	No Voice Was Raised 05:17	buy track
10.	(Migration Concentric) 00:30	buy track
11.	All That I Know To Have Changed In You 03:52	buy track
12.	Dancing With Someone (Privilege Of Everything) 03:00	buy track
13.	Reflecting In The Angles 01:45	buy track

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With First Light's Freeze, Castanets return with a dark mutant-country sound infused with strands of free-jazz, new wave and a late-seventies Nashville big-radio strut hijacked by post-punk unravelers. The result is a beautiful mix of somber reflection, destination-unknown travelogue, and subversive anti-war boogie. Castanets' unrelenting creative pioneering delightfully befuddles, as they simultaneously flirt and dismantle "New Americana" venture capitalism.

Freeze confronts the mythology of war and friendship. Morphed from a strictly literal and chronological song-cycle to a more broadly sketched reading, the wraith of narrative structure still lurks in the shadows, creating an eerie tale with shifting perspectives and evading resolution. The story ends up resembling an ancient documentary on relationships (others loved, feared, distrusted yet needed), the close proximity of things painful and pleasurable, and the complications of this as a paradigm for the world.

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released October 11, 2005

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Castanets Portland, Oregon

We need songs for shelter, and Raymond Raposa can build a shelter from almost anything: the sun-bleached bones of a drum track and a couple spare organ chords; a carpet of creeping synth arpeggios, a scaffolding of multi-tracked harmonies, a few scraps of alto sax to prop up the whole structure. Decimation Blues, Raposa’s sixth release as Castanets, marks a decade of scavenger architecture. ... more

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