The man is pretty much always on the go (10 albums with the Super Furry Animals , 3 solo albums, plus the side project, Neon Neon and various vocal contributions from other artists such as Gorillaz, Mogwai or Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse), comes around in the world and spends the night in one or another hotel. This developed Gruff Rhys bordering kleptomania Tick to collect in each hotel has a mini-shampoo bottle or similar object. These replace the diary and it served as inspiration for his third solo album " hotel shampoo. Prior
he built from the collected objects ("555 bottles of shampoo or shower gel, 28 sewing kits, 22 razors, 26 packets of shoe polish, 36 toothbrushes or paste, 121 shower caps and eight sanitary bags, combs or brushes 27 , five pairs of slippers, 13 nail files, one badge, one bottle of olive oil and two keys "), the model of a hotel where Rhys spent a night and is currently in Chapter Arts Center is on display in Cardiff ( a monument to the waste that's produced in our disposable age and to catalog my transient existence ").
Interesting is the accompanying video :
he built from the collected objects ("555 bottles of shampoo or shower gel, 28 sewing kits, 22 razors, 26 packets of shoe polish, 36 toothbrushes or paste, 121 shower caps and eight sanitary bags, combs or brushes 27 , five pairs of slippers, 13 nail files, one badge, one bottle of olive oil and two keys "), the model of a hotel where Rhys spent a night and is currently in Chapter Arts Center is on display in Cardiff ( a monument to the waste that's produced in our disposable age and to catalog my transient existence ").
Interesting is the accompanying video :
The Andy Votel produced "hotel shampoo" should first of a pure piano ballads album came to be, but at a wonderfully colorful pop smorgasbord, just as it promises a great album cover. Playful 60s-pop ("Honey All Over") can also be heard as psychedelic fuzz guitar ("Patterns of Power"), mariachi sounds ("Sensations In The Dark"), celestial strings Arrangenments ("Take A Sentence "" At The Heart Of Love ") and a duet with El Perro Del Mar s Sarah Assbring (" Space Dust # 2 "). Peak on Rhys's best and most consistent solo album, the self-comparisons with the good plates of Super Furry Animals do not need to fear, "is Christopher Columbus", dessen Refrain man so schnell nicht mehr aus den Gehörgängen bekommt.
"Shark Ridden Waters" Video
"Sensations In The Dark" Video
Rhys's third and best solo effort may be his most classically (and accessibly) pop. Points of reference include the Church of Brian Wilson ("Honey All Over"), French-horn-fueled Bacharachisms ("Take a Sentence"), and Zombies chamber pop ("Vitamin K"). For good measure, "Shark Ridden Waters" samples the Cyrkle's cover of "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," a Bacharach chestnut. Rhys has never been more infectious than he is on the horn-driven "Sensations in the Dark." "At the Heart of Love" boasts one of his most beautiful melodies, and "Christopher Columbus" and "Patterns of Power" give credence to neo-go-go and neo-psych, respectively. Perhaps Damon Albarn is the only songwriter from last century's Britpop posse who continues to rival Rhys in the font-of-creativity department. Yet Rhys is the ex-Britpopper making music that doesn't sound like dreary London fog - and as any New Englander reeling from a long hard winter's ass kick will tell you, that's an advantageous distinction.
( The Boston Phoenix )
The doors of the hotel shampoo "open: 08:03:11
Frankfurt, bread factory
09:03:11 Schorndorf, Manufaktur
14:03:11 Köln, Gebäude 9 15:03:11
Hamburg, Imperial Theatre
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