Circle Around The Moon, by The Human Elephant

Circle Around The Moon

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1.	Duel On The Dance Floor 04:23	buy track
2.	Catherine 03:00	buy track
3.	Are You My Love 03:46	buy track
4.	Rooftops 04:14	buy track
5.	Your Letters 03:14	buy track
6.	Circle Around The Moon 04:11	buy track
7.	Dog Meets Cat 02:42	buy track
8.	Fantastic Knight of Columbus 03:24	buy track
9.	Jimmy 03:46	buy track
10.	Fishing for Souls 02:44	buy track
11.	Nine Dollar 02:22	buy track
12.	What The Sponge Said as a Backseat Driver 01:53	buy track
13.	What The Whale Said to the Sponge 03:45	buy track
14.	What You Eat for New Year 04:23	buy track

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Circle around the Moon is a complex collection of recordings made by John E. Donald over the course of these recent years, randomly and emotionally connected, not by time or a session. While White Thunder (Umor Rex, 2011) shows The Human Elephant (John E. Donald) within certain post punk parameters, and with the properties of a band, Circle around the Moon is an entirely internal draft, without an official setup and schematized alignment, which includes some collaborations with Sam Shackleton and Bernd Jestram from Tarwater. Circle around the Moon has feelings with pop moments, but this album is something completely heterogeneous and different, where John E. Donald has opened the spectrum for experimentation and other forms of raiment, without leaving behind the trademarks of The Human Elephant, nor the improvisation. There are analogies with soul music, where the central axis is the use of old samplers, there are exotic dub interludes and instrumental pieces that seem terrifying but beautiful lullabies. There is also a space for the references that one usually finds in his work, and pieces which evince his close collaboration over the years with Bernd Jestram (Tarwater), with whom he formed the band Rats Live On No Evil Star. The invisible but well-knit line that connects the ideas in this album reveals networks that are within John E. Donald’s imagination, which is in a time of musical experimentation, playing with different forms without departing completely from his melodic pop vein and exotic psychedelia.

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released October 15, 2013

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