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Shadow Instrumentals

by Diminished Men

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GG Narrows 04:05
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Sutures In 01:21
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Felt 05:11
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Land Between 02:54
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Perro Chino 04:28
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about

If current instrumental music was always as majestic and as compelling as this, I'd hang up my Retro-Italian Soundtrack collector's boots for good. From the explosive drum rolls of the opening track, the only cover on the record, "L'appel du Vere", from Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" (composed by Phillipe Sarde) to the darkly exotic finale "A Housewife's Dram", this record is a superbly crafted mosaic of whip-cracking vengeance, speakeasy hallucinations, and haunted geography. Besides the Italian western overtones, carnivalesque freak show backdrops, Khorshid Egyptian guitar passages, and flipped-out electronic space psych, are perhaps the best surf-inspired tracks I've heard in years.

A thick damp fog must have been rolling in from the creek behind Randall Dunn's West Seattle studio when these recordings were made. Its spine-chilling how Dunn managed to make this record sound like the ultimate mid-60's Surf-Vampire-Western revival soundtrack. Elements of Joe Meek's best Moontrekkers productions cross with a dash of Badalamentian murder blues drama setting the stage for Steve Schmitt's cobra-twilight guitar work and Dave Abramson's drum kit outlaw splatter to leave their indelible stains across this 41-minute epic journey."
-ALAN BISHOP (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies)

credits

released September 15, 2009

on Abduction Records

All music by Diminished Men, except "L' Appel du Verre", by Philippe Sarde

Diminished Men
Steve Schmitt- guitars
Dave Abramson- drums, percussion
Sam Wambach- saxophones
Matt Rosoff- bass

w/ guests:
Steve Moore- Farfisa combo, mellotron, synthesizers, trombone
Randall Dunn- analog synthesizers

Produced, recorded and mixed by Randall Dunn at Aleph Studio, Seattle, WA
Mastered by Mell Dettmer

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Diminished Men Seattle, Washington

Drawing from elements experimental rock, sci-fi psychedelia, film soundtracks, surf and musique concrète, Diminished Men refocus their influences into something entirely unique. Collaged with menacing electricity, the raw materials are broken up and reassembled in their crude private facility. ... more

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