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Ben Vaughn
Designs In Music |
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CD Digipack. Barcode: 84350088-61728
LP 180 Gram. Barcode: 84350088-61711
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What do the american TV series That 70s Show and Third Rock From The Sun, Alex Chilton, Ween, Swingers, and the first album recorded enterely in a car have in common? One man. Ben Vaughn. Composer, producer, recording artist. A man Village Voice decribes as having a "sound so pure and spontaneous it sounds instantly classic."
Be it sitcoms, TV commercials, film soundtracks or radio play, somewhere in the world right now, Vaughn's music is being heard. Since 1986, he has been winning fans with his unique take on pop culture. Eight albums and a ten year career in Hollywood hace allowed Ben's music to travel to the far reaches of the earth. And with his latest, he brings it al together. Perfectly.
Designs In Music encapsulates this journey. Inspired by late-night drives to his weekend getaway in the Mojave Desert where the only station he cold pick was Palm Springs easy-listening station KWXY, Ben felt ready to combine everything he had learned through the years into one recording: The magic of those late-night broadcasts as well as his years spent as a composer producer and recording artist are represented equally in this project. But with a vitality that is in the moment, the now.
"It's obviously a tribute," says Ben, "but it's not a pristine re-creation of something from 1962. I wasn't really interested in making that kind of record. To me, instrumental music is a vibrant art form that's always ready for new ideas. And I've got a ton of them."
Ideas that explode in a pallet of many colors, of saxophones and trumpets, clarinets and trombones, of boss organ, bongos, wordless falsetto vocalizing, and Ben Vaughn's own tough yet warety guitar work.
We've been fans of Vaughn's music for twenty years, and though we've released some of his records on our other label Munster (Rambler 65, Cubist Blues, The Prehistoric Ben Vaughn...), we felt Designs In Music one was for Vampisoul! Designs In Music... a vibrant snapshot of instrumental music's past, present and future !!!!
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PRESS QUOTES:
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: "Designs in Music reflects Vaughn's retro-rock roots, his love of easy-listening instrumentals and his thorough knowledge of classical film scoring..." "The tracks echo the sound of such easy-instro masters as Esquivel and Les Baxter, as well as such film composers as Henry Mancini, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and Lalo Schifrin." Chris Morris
UNCUT: "Mancini meets Beck in this witty, ultra stylish collection of pretend movie themes. These delightful fabrications are so spot-on that they beg for their own Saul Bass title sequences". Bud Scoppa.
ALLMUSIC GUIDE: "For his first album since 1997, Vaughn has taken his inspiration from his current day job by composing and conducting 12 pieces for movies that exist only in his head. Designs in Music is smart and engaging fun that honors pop music history while making just a little of its own." Mark Deming.
AMAZON.COM: "The sound of vintage soundtracks for the 21st century."
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Ben Vaughn
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| Tracks list |
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 1. Avanti
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2. Apt.604
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3. Too Happy
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4. Crash Point
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5. While We´re Here
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6. Blues From Nowhere
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7. The Big Parade
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8. Wrong Turn
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9. Frequent Flier
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10. Brushfire
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11. The Stalker pt.II
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12. Smoketree Serenade
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