SUBTLE VERTIGO

TRACKLISTING

1 . Scott Gilmore - E70 No. 01
2 . Scott Gilmore - Europe
3 . Scott Gilmore - Lady Street Racer
4 . Scott Gilmore - Flight Through Grey
5 . Scott Gilmore - Subtle Vertigo
6 . Scott Gilmore - Pieced Together
7 . Scott Gilmore - Tides
8 . Scott Gilmore - Walking Underground



INFO


There is something wonderfully uplifting and naive about the mittle Europ ean B-Movie Pop and Library Music of the 1970's. An imperfect perfection of sou nd palette and melody, creating & encapsulating a whole world of hypnotic intrig ue.





This feeling is what comes to mind when listening to the debut album of Californian Scott Gilmore. A wonderfully concoc ted tincture of yard sale instrumentation, Walker Brothers guitar, offbeat refra ins and home-brew Synthesizers, put together with a truly different sense of per spective, from a musician seeming to exist outside of time and scene.





Scott's debut is reminiscent (in more modern times) of the pre 'Moon Safari' Air. The playful opening of 'E70 No.01' leads us on to t he Bowie and Eno-esque shimmerings of 'Europe' and the Gainsbourg hazed moments of 'Flight Through Grey' and 'Subtle Vertigo'. The album closes with 'Walking U nderground', a Valley Boy diary of the outsider looking inwards at the bizarrity of everyday life. This is a travelogue of the timeless and gently obscure, a b unch of rarities all in one place, at one time, woven together with an accomplis hed sense of harmony, counterpoint and vision.




< br> From the river side of the Dordogne, to the Grünewald of Berlin, the white s ands of Playa de ses Illetes and the urban sprawl of Van Nuys, this is an altern ative sonic reality sent to free the mind and open the heart, as the sun rises h igh in the sky and the cotton wool heat envelopes us all in it's gilded cage.