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Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One

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Released
  
March 23, 1999

Length
  
69:02

Release date
  
23 March 1999

Recorded
  
1995–1998

Artist
  
The Olivia Tremor Control

Label
  
V2 Records Japan

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Black Foliage Animation Music Volume One (1999)
  
Singles and Beyond (2000)

Genres
  
Indie rock, Ambient music, Noise music, Avant-garde

Similar
  
The Olivia Tremor Control albums, Indie rock albums

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Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One is the second studio album by American indie rock band The Olivia Tremor Control, released in 1999 through Flydaddy Records. It was re-released on vinyl in November of 2011 through Chunklet.

Contents

The album consists of several indie rock songs layered with dense field recordings and noise manipulation, as well as several tracks that are just noise collages, ranging in length from four seconds to over eleven minutes. There are five Black Foliage: Animation songs, which all feature the same bass line, but contain heavy sonic experimentation and go in vastly different directions. According to band member Will Cullen Hart, the Animation tracks are intended to evoke imagery of animations. In the liner notes of their debut album Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle, The Olivia Tremor Control asked their fans to send in tape recordings describing dreams they had, which are sampled in the album, most notably in "Combinations 2" and "Hilltop Procession (Momentum Gaining)".

Black Foliage was recorded and mixed entirely on 4 and 8 track tape recorders. According to the liner notes, the band collaborated with many fellow members of The Elephant 6 Recording Company collective, including Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum, who sings backup vocals in the song "I Have Been Floated".

Track listing

All songs written by The Olivia Tremor Control.

Side one
  1. "Opening" – 0:25
  2. "A Peculiar Noise Called "Train Director" – 3:02
  3. "Combinations" – 0:04
  4. "Hideway" – 2:34
  5. "Black Foliage (Animation 1)" – 1:11
  6. "Combinations" – 0:14
  7. "The Sky Is a Harpsichord Canvas" – 0:04
  8. "A Sleepy Company" – 3:40
  9. "Grass Canons" – 3:21
Side two
  1. "A New Day" – 2:29
  2. "Combinations" – 0:15
  3. "Black Foliage (Animation 2)" – 1:23
  4. "I Have Been Floated" – 3:39
  5. "Paranormal Echoes" – 3:30
  6. "Black Foliage (Animation 3)" – 0:44
  7. "A Place We Have Been To" – 2:25
Side three
  1. "Black Foliage (Itself)" – 2:54
  2. "The Sylvan Screen" – 6:07
  3. "The Bark and Below It" – 11:24
  4. "Black Foliage (Animation 4)" – 1:36
Side four
  1. "California Demise (3)" – 2:46
  2. "Looking for Quiet Seeds" – 3:13
  3. "Combinations" – 0:11
  4. "Mystery" – 3:25
  5. "Another Set of Bees in the Museum" – 3:07
  6. "Black Foliage (Animation 5)" – 2:08
  7. "Hilltop Procession (Momentum Gaining)" – 3:21

Note: Track 21, "California Demise, Pt. 3" contains a small skip. The flaw was noticed during playback of the master recording in the studio, and the band decided to leave it in since it was a semi-ironic flaw, as it occurs on the lyric, "already".

Songs

Opening0:25
A Familiar Noise Called "Train Director"3:02
Combinations0:05

References

Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One Wikipedia
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