Gospel, by Sleep Sleep

Gospel

by Sleep Sleep

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1.	Mendocino 06:04	buy track
2.	Dirty Dog 04:23	buy track
3.	Take the Money and Run 03:26	buy track
4.	Sunrise 05:18	buy track
5.	Old Joy 05:54	buy track
6.	Twin Peaks 06:43	buy track
7.	Smile 05:24	buy track
8.	Gospel 04:40	buy track

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In a nod to classic LP sequencing, with side A containing the more lively numbers and side B elegiac, down-tempo songs, Gabriel has created a diverse pop-universe unique in Austria.

Like a camera obscura, the songwriter pans his lens across pop history, captures all he sees with taste but without prejudice, and brings it into focus with his own personal creative vision. The song structures blend so seamlessly with the masterful arrangements that it's barely possible to admire melody and sound separately. From the shimmering opening tracks to the flirtatious bass-line on "Sunrise", from the baroque cello motif on "Old Joy" to the light-flooded Missa Solemnis of the title track, all of these disparate elements coalesce to form a coherent whole.

The cinematic quality of the songs also leaves its traces in the song titles and in their source material: "Twin Peaks", "Fitzcarraldo" and the aforementioned "Old Joy" are all quoted in one way or another. Sleep Sleep sees itself primarily as an aural cinema experience, or as imaginatively expanded dream pop, whose pathos remains credible in spite of all its opulence. And Pieter Gabriel seamlessly binds these eight chapters into a work that lets him already be unreservedly considered one of Austria's most compelling "sound-writers".

credits

released November 4, 2013

Recorded at home and at Lordyphon Studio, Vienna
June 2010 - February 2012

Guests:

Stefan Deisenberger
Bass guitar on "Dirty Dog", Programming on "Take the Money & Run",
Additional keys on "Twin Peaks"

Lukas Lauermann
Cello on "Old Joy", "Twin Peaks" & "Gospel"

Werner Thenmayer
Drums on "Dirty Dog", Cymbal on "Smile"

Maja Tumpej
Additional choir vocals on "Gospel"

David Hüttner
Cover & Label Artwork, Insert Illustrations

Written & produced by Pieter Gabriel
Except "Take the money & run": Produced by Pieter Gabriel & Stefan Deisenberger
Mixed by Stefan Deisenberger
Mastered by Michael Danner

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Sleep Sleep Wien, Austria

Sleep Sleep is the moniker of Viennese musician Pieter Gabriel. He is also a part of the ambient duo "The Twentieth Century".

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