CFCF - Exercises

1. "Exercise #1 (Entry)"

2. "Exercise #2 (School)"

3. "Exercise #3 (Building)"

4. "Exercise #4 (Spirit)"

5. "Exercise #5 (September)"

6. "Exercise #6 (December)"

7. "Exercise #7 (Loss)"

8. "Exercise #8 (Change)"

A press release notes that this eight-track collection is made up of "subdued piano and synth-based pieces." It's said to be a departure from 2009's debut LP Continent, in that it "is all snowy walkways and long corridors, endless escalators ascending to desolate concrete plateaus. Each track feels like an exploration of lost memories, studies in nostalgia, exercises in spatial remembrance."

The album is largely instrumental, and only one of the tracks has vocals: "Exercise #5 (September)," which is a David Sylvian cover. Other influences include Philip Glass, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Borden, in addition to more conceptual influences like "institutional architecture and '70s Canadiana."

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Fuck, I spelled the title wrong. It's "Exercises" not "Exercizes"...

  On 3/30/2012 at 4:50 PM, interr0bangr said:

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i enjoyed this thoroughly, the music video is quite lovely. are all the tracs on this release as beautiful as this one?

It's the only one I've heard so far, but I've loved all their other releases so I'm sure this one will be solid as well. Check out "Continent" if you can...it's alot different than this but just as good.

thx

When is this coming out or is it already out? Really digging the repetitive synth arpeggios near the end

Also, the video is much like Koyaanisqatsi (even has some clips from the movie), obviously very influenced by Philip Glass

  On 4/1/2012 at 4:29 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

When is this coming out or is it already out? Really digging the repetitive synth arpeggios near the end

 

Also, the video is much like Koyaanisqatsi (even has some clips from the movie), obviously very influenced by Philip Glass

May 8^th, 2012

thx for your recommendation.'cfcf' 'continent', the tracs 'closer' and 'snake charmer' are really special

For anyone whos interested.

Heres the Original short film, footage of which was in the video

http://vodpod.com/wa...s-organism-1975

this is pretty cool, the video reminds me a lot of Koyaanisqatsi and that trilogy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFBijDU8PpE

haha check this out Koyaanisqatsi in 5 minutes:

http://vimeo.com/36205162

  On 4/1/2012 at 6:35 PM, apeterlives said:

haha check this out Koyaanisqatsi in 5 minutes:

http://vimeo.com/36205162

 

Video: Koyaanisqatsi (1982) at 1552% speed. (The year 1552 marks the publication of "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," an account of the mistreatment of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas)

 

 

Audio: "The Holy Egoism of Genius," from the 1999 Art of Noise album The Seduction of Claude Debussy.

 

This is interesting especially when I've seen the film at least 10 times now. The music makes the movie seem much more happy than what it is

Entire release is streaming here:

http://hypem.com/artist/CFCF