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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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Never Much To Say
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Over A Loveless Winter
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Shoutbox
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thiagocavallier wrote:
where can i find dakota's lyrics?
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SoggyEyes wrote:
anyone else think Moon Indigo is almost idenitcal to Idaho's Skyscraper? even the lyrics are similiar. not that's a bad thing.
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pause wrote:
haven't heard his original work, but the remix album is wonderful
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her035 wrote:
Funeral Songs?
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fallenEpitaph wrote:
although i dont like their instumental stuff, i'll check end of trying out just because of the awesome song titles : )
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menerpeperkorn wrote:
SONGS FROM A BARBED WIRE FENCE IS SUCH A PERFECT ALBUM!
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little_arwen wrote:
so sad.
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MinisterZdrowia wrote:
Here you can read review of last LP by Dakota Suite: http://www.infomusic.pl/recenzje_wiecej.php?id_rec=1916 Cheers!
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oki_lodin wrote:
is this man half dutch or something?
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blue wrote:
what? a remix album? where's it?
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foolonahill235 wrote:
pulls on teh heart strings
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Titus_Androgeni wrote:
I can't believe what a crew he gathered for the remix album !
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theyshootmusic wrote:
http://theyshootmusic.at/posts/Dakota_Suite - Acoustic offstage videos with Dakota Suite performing "Never Much To Say" & "A Darkness Of Moons" in the hall and elevator of Hotel Fürstenhof in Vienna.
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moramedia wrote:
If you liked it, I recommend Seam, Codeine and Barzin
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obelisko1971 wrote:
Emanuele Errante's remix for *Second Hand Light* is beautiful***
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LouiseMansfield wrote:
beautifulllllllllllll
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thiagocavallier wrote:
no words to describe
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domakesay wrote:
love the remix comp
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futurezsofka wrote:
it breaks my heart,every time
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NastazjaF wrote:
Thank you for absolutely beautiful concert in Cracow.
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Never Much To Say full track | 3:33 |
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The Cost of Living full track | 6:32 |
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Raining Somewhere full track | 5:01 |
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