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David Rhodes: Rhodes

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Label: RealWorld Records
Released: 2013
Time:
 53:47
Category: Electronic, Rock
Producer(s): Chris Hughes
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.david-rhodes.uk
Appears with: Peter Gabriel
Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] If I Could Empty My Head (D.Rhodes) - 3:18
[2] Grinding Wheel (D.Rhodes) - 4:51
[3] Ship Of Fools (D.Rhodes) - 5:35
[4] You Are The North Wind (D.Rhodes) - 2:47
[5] Monkey On My Back (D.Rhodes) - 3:35
[6] Waggle Dance (D.Rhodes) - 4:31
[7] Time (D.Rhodes) - 3:31
[8] Three Is Everything (D.Rhodes) - 4:11
[9] My Blue Balloon (D.Rhodes) - 4:51
[10] Be Mine (D.Rhodes) - 5:14

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David Rhodes - Guitars, Voice
Ged Lynch - Drums, Percussion
Charlie Jones - Bass

Chris Hughes - Producer, Artwork, Additional Percussion, Mastering
Mark Frith - Engineer
chad Blake - Mixing
Richard ‘Dickie’ Chappell - Photograph
RidArt - Artwork

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Hello

I’m David Rhodes, (mostly known for my guitar work with Peter Gabriel and Talk Talk, and also loads of sessions).

I have a band, with Ged Lynch (Gabriel, Goldfrapp, Black Grape, and loads of others) and Charlie Jones (Goldfrapp, Page and Plant and loads of others too). The band from now on will be known as Rhodes.

Through Pledge, we aim to raise enough to record an album over the winter.
Bowers And Wilkins, the loudspeaker company, are putting up a quarter of the budget. Many, many thanks to them.

We plan to record very much as a live band, merely adding judicious overdubs. This will take place in December and January. The recordings will be a distinct move away from the more heavily worked and layered, ‘Bittersweet’.

All the tracking will be done in the Bath area.The renowned Tchad Blake, will take care of the dark art of mixing, so it should sound fantastic. To that end, besides the digital release, the intention is to have a limited vinyl run manufactured. Most of the material is written, there are just some loose ends to tidy up. There are many levels of participation, which will help this work come to fruition…all sorts of packages.

Please join in, support the project and we’ll make it happen.Thank you.

Onward and upward! All the best,

David




David Rhodes has released his second solo album. Not a solo album, actually. Things are a bit different than with Bittersweet. The core musicians who were with David in 2009 and went on tour with him later have formed the trio that recorded the new album. They are David Rhodes himself on guitars, Ged Lynch on drums and Charlie Jones on bass. When they found all other names either lacking in or overflowing with meaning they settled on "Rhodes" and also gave the album that name.

The sessions at which they recorded the songs in early 2013 were paid for through crowdfunding via the PledgeMusic website. Though that took a slow start it soon took off and the required sum was made up quickly. Many Genesis fans contributed, as did the genesis-news.com themselves. No wonder that the GNC folk paid special attention as to how the project came along – after all, they were personally involved, as it were...

With this support the band recorded a dozen songs, ten of which made it to the album. In Rhodes it is David Rhodes alone who wrote the songs and the lyrics. The music is much tighter than on Bittersweet, though. There is only bass, guitar and drums – no keyboards, no strings, no frills.

What has been carried over from Bittersweet are the depth and the quality. Strength and magic are probably good terms to describe the poles between which the music moves on Rhodes. There are straight rock numbers as well as a melancholy waltz and groovy guitar pop.  David Rhodes' instrument plays a central role, of course. It is put to use in lots of different ways (frequently very loudly so) and receives the typical Rhodes tinkering. The rhythm group is at times energetic, at others sensitive, and Tchad Blake's accomplished mix adds that subtle special bit to the individual moods.

The lyrics have something of the thoughtful way of remorse and of picking oneself up again that we know from Bittersweet, but here they are a bit less striking. David Rhodes' phrasing seems quite unusual at times; the phrase „slipping by squeeze between the glass“ is pronounced contrary to all usual stress patterns. That actually makes it all the more interesting.

The album cover is another interesting thing – it shows a cow wearing a strap-on elephant trunk. David Rhodes explains it as a playful and surreal motive that brings up the question of identity: Can  identity be changed? Are all attempts to do so merely a camouflage? Perhaps cows do dream of the savannah and the elephant's trunk is how they live out their dreams. In any case he wanted something colourful that would catch the eye.

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