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Sixty Metonymies

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Recorded
  
2006–2007

Artist
  
Tartar Lamb

Producer
  
Toby Driver

Length
  
41:12

Release date
  
31 July 2007

Label
  
Ice Level Music

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Released
  
July 31, 2007 (2007-07-31)

Sixty Metonymies (2007)
  
Polyimage of Known Exits (2011)

Genres
  
Minimal music, Avant-garde music, Experimental rock

Toby Driver albums
  
Blue Lambency Downward, Choirs of the Eye, Coffins on Io, Plastic House on Base of S, Hubardo

Tartar lamb sixty metonymies incensing the malediction is a lamb


Sixty Metonymies is the debut studio album of New York City-based avant-garde band Tartar Lamb. The album is essentially one 40-minute composition for a guitar-violin duo.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Incensing the Malediction Is a Lamb" (11:47)
  2. "A Lamb in Hand's Worth Two in the Ewe" (3:13)
  3. "Trumpet Twine the Lamb Unhyne" (9:36)
  4. "The Lamb, the Ma'am, and the Holy Shim-Sham" (16:38)

Reception

Reception for the album was generally positive. Sputnikmusic gave the album a rating of 4 out of 5, while the blog Culture & Pleasure stated that Toby had "finally reached the full sound he has been hinting at since his solo release almost two years ago."

Personnel

  • Toby Driver – composition, electric guitar
  • Mia Matsumiya – violin

    • Guest musicians

  • Tim Byrnes – trumpet
  • Andrew Greenwald – drums

    • Songs

    1Incensing the Malediction Is a Lamb11:47
    2A Lamb in Hand's Worth Two in the Ewe3:12
    3Trumpet Twine the Lamb Unkyne9:36

    References

    Sixty Metonymies Wikipedia
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