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It'S Midnight in Honolulu

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It'S Midnight in Honolulu

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Palms is Ryan Schaefer and Nadja Korinth. Though a band of only two, great distances and far-flung elements are also constitutive of Palms. To begin with, the members live on different continents. Schaefer originally from southern Illinois has called New York City home for the past eight years. Korinth, currently residing in Berlin, was raised in what was formerly the East German town of Leipzig. However, London served as the setting for the pair s first meeting in 2003. Of course, this distance demands a unique working relationship, one in which both spend months developing ideas on their own that are then fit together, broken down or elaborated during short periods of intense collaboration on one or the other side of the Atlantic. With this process of constructing songs, it is no surprise that the studio should be Palms natural home. There, guided by a sense of both precision and experimentation, the band transmutes these ideas into the sparse and haunted sound heard on It s Midnight in Honolulu . At his Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, Nicolas Vernhes, who has made records with Black Dice, Animal Collective, Cat Power and the Fiery Furnaces to name a few, and whose new label, Rare Book Room Records, is putting out It s Midnight in Honolulu as its first full-length release, worked closely with Schaefer and Korinth to hone their sound. More than mere points on the map, however, we find each of these places out of the Palms biography present in the music as well, whether in the echoes of German kosmische musik, like Faust and Klaus Schulze, or the Midwestern plains evoked in the spare and expansive sounds of Der Koenig or New Moon. New York and Britain creep through as well in traces of the Velvet Underground and the Jesus and Mary Chain as much as in the enervated dance music of Boundary Waters.
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Release Date:
2008-11-21
Publication Date:
2008-11-21
Publisher:
Southern Record Distributors (Soulfood)
Languages:
Published: English
Weight:
41 g
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