Flash Paper Queen - The 4-Track Demos

Editorial Reviews
Delusions Of Adequacy - Feb. 2003
"a beautiful masterpiece, one worth repeating multiple times"

-Sarah Iddings, Lost At Sea - Feb. 2003
"Doug Kabourek has something fundamental to show us about being human."

Album Description
With his newest disc, Kabourek has again found himself fusing a heady concept with his already finely crafted music. The disc is centered on the mesmerizing lead single, "Like Wind Like Rain," a three-minute bit of genius that took Kabourek almost 6 months to complete. The song is easily his best work to date, a surging pop tune influenced by Phil Spector’s "Wall of Sound" production that reaches a peak with almost fifteen converging melodies and harmonies and a few other surprises that are new to the Fizzle Like A Flood equation. The remainder of the album, "the demos," are in fact not demos at all, but rather a collection of stripped down tunes put together with a scratchy, homemade sound in mind. Recorded on 8-track, 4-track, and mono tape players, the ten acoustic anthems wander from the country-twist inflected "Maenad’s Tattoo," to the piano based title track, all making use of Kabourek’s sly wordplay and his mastery of lo-fi recording. Packaged as the demos ! with a "radio edit" bonus track from a record that never actually existed in the first place, the album delivers both Lou Barlow’s Sentridoh and The Beach Boys’ "Good Vibrations" on a single CD. The appearance of a fully-produced version of "Don’t Go" on Redemption Records’ NE vs. NC compilation earlier this summer (complete with the liner note "appears on the album Flash Paper Queen") leads one to wonder if any other songs from the album exist in a glossier form - or is it just Kabourek waving his magic wand. True to the magicians’ code, Doug isn’t telling.

Flash Paper Queen - The 4-Track Demos

Flash Paper Queen - The 4-Track Demos

Average customer rating:

Precious seedlings

Flash Paper Queen - The 4-Track Demos
Fizzle Like a Flood
Manufacturer: Ernest Jenning
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008OTM8
Release Date: 2002-12-24

Tracks:

Like Wind Like Rain (single)
Don't Go
Maenad's Tattoo
Ashes to Lashes
Love
Let's Go Together
The Curtain Felt
Flash Paper Queen
Touched For the Tag
Aligned by the Autumn
Like Wind Like Rain (demo)

Album Description

With his newest disc, Kabourek has again found himself fusing a heady concept with his already finely crafted music. The disc is centered on the mesmerizing lead single, "Like Wind Like Rain," a three-minute bit of genius that took Kabourek almost 6 months to complete. The song is easily his best work to date, a surging pop tune influenced by Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" production that reaches a peak with almost fifteen converging melodies and harmonies and a few other surprises that are new to the Fizzle Like A Flood equation. The remainder of the album, "the demos," are in fact not demos at all, but rather a collection of stripped down tunes put together with a scratchy, homemade sound in mind. Recorded on 8-track, 4-track, and mono tape players, the ten acoustic anthems wander from the country-twist inflected "Maenad's Tattoo," to the piano based title track, all making use of Kabourek's sly wordplay and his mastery of lo-fi recording. Packaged as the demos ! with a "radio edit" bonus track from a record that never actually existed in the first place, the album delivers both Lou Barlow's Sentridoh and The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" on a single CD. The appearance of a fully-produced version of "Don't Go" on Redemption Records' NE vs. NC compilation earlier this summer (complete with the liner note "appears on the album Flash Paper Queen") leads one to wonder if any other songs from the album exist in a glossier form - or is it just Kabourek waving his magic wand. True to the magicians' code, Doug isn't telling.

Customer Reviews:

Precious seedlings.......2003-10-27

The first song, Like Wind Like Rain, is lush with multi-layered harmonies and dimensional synthesized sounds. A masterpiece for home-production! His high regards for both The Flaming Lips and The Beach Boys is wonderfully apparent on this recording. The other ten songs are in a more pure just-born state. Flash Paper Queen whets your appetite for more production realizing the awesome potential from the single. Check out the fizzlelikeaflood web site to hear sounds.

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