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Adeline Hotel // THE CHERRIES ARE SPEAKING CD / LP

Adeline Hotel // THE CHERRIES ARE SPEAKING CD / LP

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This is the latest album released in March 2022 by Adeline Hotel, the presiding officer of Ruination Records, a folk label in New York, USA.

It is a work that focuses on singing things, unlike the previous guitar instrumental.Contains 8 pastoral and heartwarming folk pop songs. DL code included.

The record is red.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Ruination Records releases available at Tobira.

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12 "red vinyl / CD. 

Dan Knishkowy --piano, vocals, mellotron
Andrew Stocker --bass
Caitlin Pasko --vocals
David Lackner --saxophones, flute, clarinet
Eric D. Johnson --vocals
Macie Stewart --violin
Sean Mullins --drums & percussion
Vivian McConell-vocals

Text by Winston Cook-Wilson:

"The Cherries Are Speaking—the sixth album released by Brooklyn singer-songwriter Dan Knishkowy as Adeline Hotel—begins and ends with lyrics from his previous two records, respectively.“ Holy visions ”surfaced first on the mournful acoustic ballad“ Ordinary Things, ” “Good timing,” in turn, is the eponymous lyric from the critically acclaimed followup, released in March of this year—and one of its only lyrics. , too, since the record is largely a suite of layered acoustic guitars.

The original context for these phrases hint at the fresh musical and lyrical ground Knishkowy covers on The Cherries Are Speaking, an interconnected series of miniature baroque pop songs and, quietly, his most ambitious work to date. expounds upon “Ordinary Things”'minimalism, eschewing the intricate guitar counterpoint of his previous work in favor of piano lines inspired by the breezy melodies of Ethiopian jazz. in—a breathtaking leap forward for Knishkowy as an arranger—informed at turns by Judee Sill's neo-classicism and the mystic woodwinds of '80s Van Morrison.

On Cherries, Knishkowy creates full mise en scènes within verses, folding autobiographical moments of meditative self-evaluation into imagery from Italo Calvino's 1957 novel The Baron in the Trees—most importantly, the titular anthropomorphic cherries. decision to live in the trees and engage in a selective relationship with the world around him. Knishkowy found resonances between the character's self-imposed, imperfect notion of “freedom” and his own unsettled definition of the concept.

“The fundamental question of Cherries is what it means to be apart from the world, but still a part of it,” Knishkowy explains.

If there was a certain pandemic-era irony to the phrase “The Groundhog's-Day-like experience of life in relative isolation feels built into the form of the album, too, with each song beginning like another morning breaking in a week without days. good timing ”before, Cherries instead explores a more sincere reading. The recurrence of the titular line on“ We Go Outside, ”brings a break in musical tone, like a breath of fresh air after too many neurotic hours in the apartment (“It” was all I could stand of myself / we go outside ”followed by“ we go outside / good timing ”).

The album is a bold but unforced gesture from an artist whose creative lifeblood is the sense of constantly pushing forward, creating new links in a daisy chain of a discography which seems to compound upon itself in significance with each new entry. "

Artist: Adeline Hotel

Label: Label: Ruination Records

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This is the latest album released in March 2022 by Adeline Hotel, the presiding officer of Ruination Records, a folk label in New York, USA.

It is a work that focuses on singing things, unlike the previous guitar instrumental.Contains 8 pastoral and heartwarming folk pop songs. DL code included.

The record is red.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Ruination Records releases available at Tobira.

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12 "red vinyl / CD. 

Dan Knishkowy --piano, vocals, mellotron
Andrew Stocker --bass
Caitlin Pasko --vocals
David Lackner --saxophones, flute, clarinet
Eric D. Johnson --vocals
Macie Stewart --violin
Sean Mullins --drums & percussion
Vivian McConell-vocals

Text by Winston Cook-Wilson:

"The Cherries Are Speaking—the sixth album released by Brooklyn singer-songwriter Dan Knishkowy as Adeline Hotel—begins and ends with lyrics from his previous two records, respectively.“ Holy visions ”surfaced first on the mournful acoustic ballad“ Ordinary Things, ” “Good timing,” in turn, is the eponymous lyric from the critically acclaimed followup, released in March of this year—and one of its only lyrics. , too, since the record is largely a suite of layered acoustic guitars.

The original context for these phrases hint at the fresh musical and lyrical ground Knishkowy covers on The Cherries Are Speaking, an interconnected series of miniature baroque pop songs and, quietly, his most ambitious work to date. expounds upon “Ordinary Things”'minimalism, eschewing the intricate guitar counterpoint of his previous work in favor of piano lines inspired by the breezy melodies of Ethiopian jazz. in—a breathtaking leap forward for Knishkowy as an arranger—informed at turns by Judee Sill's neo-classicism and the mystic woodwinds of '80s Van Morrison.

On Cherries, Knishkowy creates full mise en scènes within verses, folding autobiographical moments of meditative self-evaluation into imagery from Italo Calvino's 1957 novel The Baron in the Trees—most importantly, the titular anthropomorphic cherries. decision to live in the trees and engage in a selective relationship with the world around him. Knishkowy found resonances between the character's self-imposed, imperfect notion of “freedom” and his own unsettled definition of the concept.

“The fundamental question of Cherries is what it means to be apart from the world, but still a part of it,” Knishkowy explains.

If there was a certain pandemic-era irony to the phrase “The Groundhog's-Day-like experience of life in relative isolation feels built into the form of the album, too, with each song beginning like another morning breaking in a week without days. good timing ”before, Cherries instead explores a more sincere reading. The recurrence of the titular line on“ We Go Outside, ”brings a break in musical tone, like a breath of fresh air after too many neurotic hours in the apartment (“It” was all I could stand of myself / we go outside ”followed by“ we go outside / good timing ”).

The album is a bold but unforced gesture from an artist whose creative lifeblood is the sense of constantly pushing forward, creating new links in a daisy chain of a discography which seems to compound upon itself in significance with each new entry. "

Artist: Adeline Hotel

Label: Label: Ruination Records