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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ Nick Waterhouse - Promenade Blue ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Nick Waterhouse ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Promenade Blue ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Alternative CAT#....[ IL2078 ████ ████ LABEL...[ Innovative Leisure ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 36:14 REL.DATE[ 04.10.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 11 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 83,09 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Place Names 04:03 ████ ████ 02 The Spanish Look 03:06 ████ ████ 03 Vincentine 03:10 ████ ████ 04 Medicine 03:28 ████ ████ 05 Very Blue 03:47 ████ ████ 06 Silver Bracelet 03:01 ████ ████ 07 Promene Bleu 03:16 ████ ████ 08 Fugitive Lover 03:28 ████ ████ 09 Minor Time 03:27 ████ ████ 10 B. Santa Ana, 1986 02:44 ████ ████ 11 To Tell 02:44 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 36:14 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://nickwaterhouse.bandcamp.com/album/prome ████ ████ nade-blue ████ ████ ████ ████ F. Scott FitzgeraldÆs The Great Gatsby was a ████ ████ work so filled with ambition, yearning, and ████ ████ inner contradictions that it came to represent ████ ████ the condition of a nation itself. Yet, at its ████ ████ core, the slim novel tells a story about people ████ ████ and, more often than not, their inability to ████ ████ communicate and connect with one another ù ████ ████ forever running on parallel tracks until ████ ████ tragedy finally twines them together. The color ████ ████ green (often in the form of the faded sodium ████ ████ lit dock of Daisy Buchanan) comes to represent ████ ████ longing and unrequited love in an era (the ████ ████ Roaring Twenties) of decadence and spiritual ████ ████ vacuousness. Green is GatsbyÆs North Star, ████ ████ simultaneously pointing backward and forward ████ ████ through time toward some unattainable, ████ ████ impossibly balanced version of his own life. ████ ████ ████ ████ Nick Waterhouse, a century later but once again ████ ████ in the Æ20s, takes the color blue as his hue of ████ ████ choice on Promenade Blue. In NickÆs musical and ████ ████ lyrical world, blue is a refraction of his life ████ ████ and memories ù shadowing a deep, spiritual San ████ ████ Francisco that fostered his musical vocabulary ████ ████ but has now been stamped out irrevocably; ████ ████ evoking the endless tours, marathon recording ████ ████ sessions, and highs and lows of success heÆs ████ ████ experienced in his decade-long career; ████ ████ conjuring romances that were doomed, loves that ████ ████ lingered, and hope for future days of parity ████ ████ and partnership; summoning spirits of people ████ ████ who have gone but permeate his mind forever. ████ ████ ThatÆs the world of Promenade Blue ù one that ████ ████ is vivid and magnetic, buoyed by both light and ████ ████ density due to NickÆs newfound collaboration ████ ████ with producer Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, ████ ████ Devendra Banhart). ItÆs not GatsbyÆs New York ████ ████ in the 1920s, itÆs WaterhouseÆs California in ████ ████ the 2020s. Nick makes that crystal clear ████ ████ throughout the record but particularly on ████ ████ ôSanta Ana (1986),ö where he wryly sings, ôNot ████ ████ from New York / And I never was / IÆm from ████ ████ California.ö With that, he answers all ████ ████ questions about place and settingàbut as anyone ████ ████ whoÆs ever listened to a Waterhouse record ████ ████ knows: time, though clearly pegged to the dawn ████ ████ of this new decade, is a more malleable ████ ████ concept. Where he is is clear. When he is ████ ████ varies. ████ ████ ████ ████ We can try as hard as we can to make sense of ████ ████ Promenade Blue, but in reality, context isnÆt ████ ████ really needed because the music on the album is ████ ████ so damn magnificent. In no uncertain terms, it ████ ████ represents WaterhouseÆs finest hour as a writer ████ ████ and bandleader ù leveraging the musical ████ ████ partnerships he has built over many years to ████ ████ put something forth that is so fully realized ████ ████ and felt that it sparkles beatifically, ████ ████ reverberating with energy, heart, creativity, ████ ████ and vibe from start to finish. Nowhere is this ████ ████ more evident than on the albumÆs opening track, ████ ████ ôPlace Names,ö perhaps the most remarkable song ████ ████ in the Waterhouse catalogue. ████ ████ ████ ████ The tune is a pocket symphony, a la Spector and ████ ████ Wilson, with winding piano lines locking ████ ████ puzzle-like into a whining, weeping string ████ ████ arrangement courtesy of musical blood brother ████ ████ J.B. Flatt. A small cadre of women backing ████ ████ vocalists shout ôNever!ö and Nick replies ôI ████ ████ never cry on cold days / I never mind a trip on ████ ████ the freeway / Because itÆs what I know / Never ████ ████ really set for the big change / Learn to let ████ ████ things go / And say blow wind, blow.ö The ████ ████ freeways between LA and San Francisco; the ████ ████ memory of spending a teenaged evening in the ████ ████ Vesuvio Cafe, which looms over the entrance of ████ ████ City Lights Books; the wind ripping through you ████ ████ on a foggy Bay Area morning, cutting into your ████ ████ bones; the pride one takes in his hometown; the ████ ████ distinct life that he has made (or that has ████ ████ made him) ù itÆs all here in ôPlace Namesö and, ████ ████ honestly, if the album were to end with this ████ ████ one song, Waterhouse wouldÆve done his service ████ ████ to the 2020s in terms of musical creativity and ████ ████ vitality. Thankfully for listeners, itÆs just ████ ████ the beginning. ████ ████ ████ ████ The album twists and turns from the opening to ████ ████ the close ù from swinging, sashaying jazz and ████ ████ blues (ôSpanish Lookö) to jittering, ████ ████ crystalline doo wop (ôVery Blueö) and pure, ████ ████ loose, languid mood music with just a hint of ████ ████ Mulatu AstatkeÆs Ethiopian modal magic ████ ████ (ôPromene Blueö). Most striking, perhaps, is ████ ████ the use of menÆs voices as a backing texture, ████ ████ bringing an unexpected thematic unity to many ████ ████ of the songs. Lower-than-low gospel chants and ████ ████ refrains lend both energy and emotional weight ████ ████ to these pieces, conjuring a whole new mythic ████ ████ world for NickÆs compositions. This is a ████ ████ statement album, one to get lost in and ████ ████ rediscover over and over again. ████ ████ ████ ████ In the Waterhouse catalogue, ôPromenade Blueö ████ ████ represents rebirth and reinvigoration as well ████ ████ as a clarity of purpose that elevates it and ████ ████ may one day set it apart as something ████ ████ resembling a magnum opus. ItÆs his æGatsbyÆ and ████ ████ itÆs also his way of reintroducing himself to a ████ ████ fanbase that has grown by leaps and bounds over ████ ████ the last couple of years. On this record, he ████ ████ paints a mythic picture of his own life ù lost ████ ████ in confusion, grating against time, overheated ████ ████ by false memories, being baptized by nostalgia ████ ████ and a vision of the future that is ████ ████ paradoxically both dark and apocalyptic and ████ ████ sparkling with promise. Sounds a lot like ████ ████ America in the 20s to me. Which 20s though? ████ ████ Which color ù green or blue? Which author? Try ████ ████ to figure it out for yourself: ████ ████ ████ ████ ôYou were smiling at me / Hanging languidly / ████ ████ On your car door window / Very blue / Very ████ ████ green / The ocean breeze / And shuffling trees ████ ████ / Pacific seas.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ ôAnd as I sat there brooding on the old, ████ ████ unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder ████ ████ when he first picked out the green light at the ████ ████ end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to ████ ████ this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed ████ ████ so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. ████ ████ He did not know that it was already behind him, ████ ████ somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond ████ ████ the city, where the dark fields of the republic ████ ████ rolled on under the night. ████ ████ ████ ████ Gatsby believed in the green light, the ████ ████ orgastic future that year by year recedes ████ ████ before us. It eluded us then, but that's no ████ ████ matter ù tomorrow we will run faster, stretch ████ ████ out our arms farther. . . . And one fine ████ ████ morningùù ████ ████ ████ ████ So, we beat on, boats against the current, ████ ████ borne back ceaselessly into the past.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. G R E E T S .···. ▄▓▄██▀▀ │ ▀ . ▄▓▓▄ │ ▀▀▀█▄▄ ▄▄█▀▀▀ │ ▄▓▓▄ . ▀▀ ▀▀▄ FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄ ▄▓▓▄ ▀▄ RIP kHz ▄▀ ▄▓▓▄ ▄ . ▀ ▀ ▀▓▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄.···. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .···.▄ . ▀ ▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ .