demo
Currituck Co. : Sleepwalk in the garden of the Deadroom (US,2003)****
This release has an even more matured general sound, with beautiful finger-picking guitar and nicely evolving structured songs. The additional arrangements on all, but especially the first five songs (a sound collage, double bass, distorted guitar, a bar piano, ..) are all sparse and contribute perfectly as inventive additional touches. The drawing of the woman on the cover can be seen as the anima / muze inspiration, gentle, soft and romantic. I can't tell what the texts are all about, but I do like the music. The music is clear and gentle, rhythmically sweetly moving, from an undisturbed watcher and storyteller. The title-related track, "Sleepwalking" has violin and (early Floydian) piano arrangements. "Your name was not mentioned" has beautiful additional female vocals, and some harmonium, harmonica ?, cello ? arrangements. Another pastoral dreamy romantic finger-picking song, "Wisdom of the weeks", starts with additional flute and bells, then creates a more powerful still pastoral sound. It continues with a fine raga like guitar improvisation on a gentle colourful rhythm. The last track is the song version of the "Sleepwalking" track, with a quiet unexpected but nice concluding moment of distorted guitar solo glued over in the middle of the song and fading away at the end of the song. The release is such a solid release it was almost impossible for me to leave out any tracks for airplay. Highly recommended. Amongst the most perfect releases in its kind.
This demo now is released by "Track & Field".
