Prefab Sprout - I Trawl The Megahertz (2003) {2019, Remastered}
Prefab Sprout - I Trawl The Megahertz (2003) {2019, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 333 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 130 Mb
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Modern Classical, Electronic, Experimental, Ambient, Chamber Pop | Sony Music #88985411062
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u8 + Log ~ 333 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 130 Mb
Full Scans ~ 183 Mb | 00:53:27 | RAR 5% Recovery
Modern Classical, Electronic, Experimental, Ambient, Chamber Pop | Sony Music #88985411062
I Trawl the Megahertz is an album originally released as a Paddy McAloon solo album in May 2003 on Liberty Records. It was later reissued in February 2019 on Sony Music under the Prefab Sprout name, as originally intended, with new artwork. After McAloon was rendered almost blind for a period in 1999 due to detached retinas, he was left housebound, and found comfort in listening to shortwave radio transmissions such as chat shows, phone-in programs and documentaries. He recorded conversations from these programs and fragmented them, adding in new words and lines from other sources, providing him source material for the album. The largely instrumental album marks a notable stylistic change from previous Prefab Sprout work, featuring classical passages and orchestration reminiscent of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, McAloon's two favourite composers. Writing much of the music on his computer, McAloon was given help by co-producer Calum Malcolm and composer David McGuinness in translating his original versions into the final recordings, with live orchestration provided by Mr McFall's Chamber. McAloon's radio-sourced material was then integrated with the songs, with spoken word vocals from Yvonne Connors on the title track, TV and radio dialogue samples on "I'm 49" and McAloon's own singing on "Sleeping Rough". With themes of old memories and time passing, I Trawl the Megahertz is a highly personal work, dominated by its poignant title track, in which Connors intones "the story of her life", largely created by excerpts of radio conversation, over an orchestral motif. Despite concerns the album would alienate fans, I Trawl the Megahertz was belatedly released to positive critical reception, with many finding the album powerful and poignant. In the year end polls for 2003's albums of the year it featured at number 22 in Uncut Magazine and number 50 in Mojo, who later included the album in their 2005 list of the top 50 'most out there' albums. The magazine would later describe I Trawl the Megahertz as an "unlikely orch-pop masterpiece."
I Trawl the Megahertz, Paddy McAloon's first solo album, is as likely to perplex and infuriate as it is likely to stun and spellbind. Grand, heavily orchestrated, predominantly instrumental, and not the type of thing you put on prior to going out or when you're in the mood for cleaning the house, the record is incredibly powerful – almost too powerful – even when held up against everything from Prefab Sprout's past. The most significant song is the opener; 22 minutes in length, it's nearly elegiac in it its mournful tones played out by a swaying string arrangement and a weeping trumpet. Throughout its duration, Yvonne Connors speaks matter-of-factly – yet dramatically enough to be poignant – as she rifles through fragments of her memory, the most disarming of which reads like this: "I said, 'Your daddy loves you very much; he just doesn't want to live with us anymore.'" Of the eight remaining songs, McAloon's voice is present on just one, which doesn't come along until near the end. This song, the particularly autumnal "Sleeping Rough," is almost as emblematic of the album as the opener, expressing a somewhat sorrowful but content coming to grips with the passage of time ("I'll grow a long and silver beard and let it reach my knees"). The album was conceived during and in the wake of McAloon's bout with an illness that temporarily took away his eyesight, but it's plain to hear that his vision remains.~ Andy Kellman, All Music
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Track List:
01. I Trawl the Megahertz [22:00]
02. Esprit de Corps [4:52]
03. Fall from Grace [3:37]
04. We Were Poor. . . [4:50]
05. Orchid 7 [4:18]
06. I'm 49 [3:49]
07. Sleeping Rough [3:31]
08. Ineffable [2:43]
09. . . . but We Were Happy [3:48]
Personnel:
Yvonne Connors - voice (the title composition)
Paddy McAloon - voice (“Sleeping Rough”)
David McGuinness - strings arrangements
The Robert McFall Orchestra - strings, including
Greg Lawson - violin
Robert McFall - violin
Brian Schiele - viola
Robert Irvine - cello
Rick Standley - double bass
Gerard Presencer - flugelhorn, trumpet
Julian Argüelles - clarinets, tenor sax
Johann Sebastian Barcode - keyboards and programming
Corky Anderson - percussion
Produced by Paddy McAloon and Calum Malcolm
Recorded, mixed, and remastered by Calum Malcolm
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Prefab Sprout / I Trawl the Megahertz
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