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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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This river only brings poison
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inutoneko my bedtime lullaby.beautiful.
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bc_ranger outstanding band.
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Fytrinekast New album please!
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ridiai99 Tin Angel days - did you know it's closed now? :(
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Oh Wauw! Wintersong (Dakota Suite film) is so beautiful.. i have no words...
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fertyn крутые, даа
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@ Owlsalt: That's Because Chris lived in 'Groningen'-The Netherlands for some years!
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kakaroism カッコイイ！！！
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new photography book!!!
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the world you breathe
johanna has taken so many astonishing pictures for my records
since I started all this that I felt it was time to collect some of
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- new photography book!!! 8 Sep 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/dakotasuite
- new photography book!!! 8 Sep 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/dakotasuite
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