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Dakota Suite is not so much a band, more the brainchild of Chris Hooson, a social worker from England. He manages to hold down a full-time job while also producing some affecting music.
Their early singles were compiled on an album entitled Alone with Everybody. It’s been said before that his music is very informed by American Music Club and Red House Painters, and that is undeniably true of his ‘singer-songwriter’ material. This compilation is quite varied, with some singer-songwriter type material, slightly countrified rock, and some jazzy / classical instrumentals. All the songs are uniformly slow, some feature deep strums of an acoustic guitar, whilst others are piano-based.
Their first full album proper is entitled Songs for a Barbed Wire Fence. The vocal songs are punctuated with instrumentals, and the album was followed up with Dakota Suite’s first instrumental album, Navigator’s Yard, a series of chamber pieces strongly featuring piano. In other words, classical music.
In 2000, they released Signal Hill, a major step forward. The album is back to mostly vocal songs, with some excellent mood-piece style instrumentals. Close Enough to Tears is a fragile, plaintive ballad, begun on acoustic guitar around Chris gently singing ‘never let me go’. Other highlights include the wonderful pair of songs: Riverside, recorded beside a train station and consisting only of acoustic guitar and Chris repeating the phrase ‘is it true, are you breaking up inside’, he is then joined by some trumpets. It then leads into Raining Somewhere, an instrumental played on electric guitars, somewhat reminescent of Red House Painters’ Katy Song, it creates a lovely autumnal Sunday afternoon mood.
Their early singles were compiled on an album entitled Alone with Everybody. It’s been said before that his music is very informed by American Music Club and Red House Painters, and that is undeniably true of his ‘singer-songwriter’ material. This compilation is quite varied, with some singer-songwriter type material, slightly countrified rock, and some jazzy / classical instrumentals. All the songs are uniformly slow, some feature deep strums of an acoustic guitar, whilst others are piano-based.
Their first full album proper is entitled Songs for a Barbed Wire Fence. The vocal songs are punctuated with instrumentals, and the album was followed up with Dakota Suite’s first instrumental album, Navigator’s Yard, a series of chamber pieces strongly featuring piano. In other words, classical music.
In 2000, they released Signal Hill, a major step forward. The album is back to mostly vocal songs, with some excellent mood-piece style instrumentals. Close Enough to Tears is a fragile, plaintive ballad, begun on acoustic guitar around Chris gently singing ‘never let me go’. Other highlights include the wonderful pair of songs: Riverside, recorded beside a train station and consisting only of acoustic guitar and Chris repeating the phrase ‘is it true, are you breaking up inside’, he is then joined by some trumpets. It then leads into Raining Somewhere, an instrumental played on electric guitars, somewhat reminescent of Red House Painters’ Katy Song, it creates a lovely autumnal Sunday afternoon mood.
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ridiai99 wrote:
Tin Angel days - did you know it's closed now? :(
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Fytrinekast wrote:
Oh Wauw! Wintersong (Dakota Suite film) is so beautiful.. i have no words...
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fertyn wrote:
крутые, даа
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Fytrinekast wrote:
@ Owlsalt: That's Because Chris lived in 'Groningen'-The Netherlands for some years!
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kakaroism wrote:
カッコイイ！！！
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Scanibal_de wrote:
new album is pretty mediocre, but the last song pushes your sadness
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flame_leaf wrote:
And here I was thinking that Carissa's Wierd was the best the genre of Slowcore/Sadcore had to offer... well... that may still be true, but this is really, really damn good. Can't believe I only just now discovered this.
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Owlsalt wrote:
I've always wondered, why do some songs have dutch titles?
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fallenEpitaph wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dloh5kNBfpI
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elliotsimply wrote:
dermo//
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Waltz3 wrote:
Whoa.
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Lukkoje wrote:
so sweet.
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Uniontrade wrote:
Ornamental is cool really!
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berit89 wrote:
why is that song called "een langzaam lekkende wond???"
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carpenter78 wrote:
hmm, it seems that there's a lot we can look forward to this year: The Hearts of Empty, Valissa and also The North Green Down (colab. with Emanuele Errante)...
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thenearestdoor wrote:
Amazing music [2]
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Uniontrade wrote:
Amazing music
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nickvb wrote:
actually i can. The album you mention is merely his first two albums released as a double CD. If you want I can upload either 'Alone with everybody' or 'Songs for a Barbed Wire Fence' or both.
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nickvb wrote:
can't help you out sorry
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Biondello wrote:
Hello, is anybody willing to share some Dakota Suite albums which are not available for sale anymore and are nowhere to be found for download? I'm especially looking for "Blown About Moon" and the opening song on it - "Things We Carry". Cheers!
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