{"product_id":"movietone-movietone","title":"MOVIETONE - Movietone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2LP - Expanded Edition on Black Vinyl with second disc featuring 7 extra tracks, three of which are exclusive to vinyl format. First time to be reissued on vinyl. With Printed Inners. Only 1,000 copies pressed in this edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWorld Of Echo\u003c\/strong\u003e are proud to announce the long-awaited reissue, of the self-titled debut album by Bristol’s \u003cstrong\u003eMovietone\u003c\/strong\u003e. Originally released in 1995 by \u003cstrong\u003ePlanet Records\u003c\/strong\u003e and reissued on CD in 2003 by \u003cstrong\u003eThe Pastels\u003c\/strong\u003e’ \u003cstrong\u003eGeographic Music\u003c\/strong\u003e imprint, this is the first time \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e has been reissued on vinyl. An expanded double-LP edition, it includes the extra tracks from the 2003 CD (their first two singles, and an unreleased demo of “\u003cem\u003eChance Is Her Opera\u003c\/em\u003e”), and adds three more unearthed gems: demos of “\u003cem\u003eAlkaline Eye\u003c\/em\u003e” and “\u003cem\u003eShe Smiled Mandarine Like\u003c\/em\u003e”, and an early take of “\u003cem\u003eLate July\u003c\/em\u003e”, recorded in a garden by \u003cstrong\u003eDave Pearce\u003c\/strong\u003e (Flying Saucer Attack) in 1993. Taken together, this is the definitive collection of music from the first phase of one of Bristol’s most remarkable groups.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e was the cumulation of a series of events, explorations, and discoveries, starting at secondary school – the group’s core membership of \u003cstrong\u003eKate Wright\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eRachel Brook\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMatt Elliott\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMatt Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e met at Cotham School in Bristol. As for many other groups, their early years were all about experimenting, and finding ways to ‘make do’, a DIY sensibility that would inform Movietone through their decade-long lifespan. From formative rehearsals in a shed in the garden of Brook’s family home, to recording early material to four-track in Redland Library, and on into the Whitehouse and Mr Grin’s studio sessions for their debut album, Movietone’s music fell together in a creatively unpredictable, yet conceptually rigorous manner.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy the time they released \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e, they’d found a home with Bristol’s \u003cstrong\u003ePlanet\u003c\/strong\u003e, run by author \u003cstrong\u003eRichard King\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJames Webster\u003c\/strong\u003e, who had both released their first two singles, “\u003cem\u003eShe Smiled Mandarine Like\u003c\/em\u003e” and “\u003cem\u003eMono Valley\u003c\/em\u003e”. There was other music happening around them in Bristol, too, from the Jones brothers’ avant-rock outfit Crescent (who were Movietone’s closest conspirators), through Elliott’s jungle\/electronica project \u003cstrong\u003eThird Eye Foundation\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Brook and Elliott’s membership of \u003cstrong\u003eFlying Saucer Attack\u003c\/strong\u003e. A closely knit community, Movietone are the centre of this nestling architecture of groups.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe vision in the music, mostly, belongs to Wright, but Movietone ran in democratic creative consort. Listening back to Movietone, you can hear this democracy in action through the wildness of the music, which is balanced by the poetics of Wright’s lyrics and melodies. Full of half-captured memories and entangled abstractions, there’s an elliptical, ruminative quality to much of the writing here that shows the deep influence of the Beat Generation writers, along with a twilight environment captured in the songs that’s pure third-album Velvets, Galaxie 500, early Tindersticks, Codeine. Unpredictable interventions – the crashing glass in “\u003cem\u003eMono Valley\u003c\/em\u003e”, the sudden explosions of “\u003cem\u003eOrange Zero\u003c\/em\u003e” – point towards the noise blowouts of My Bloody Valentine, the unpredictability of Sonic Youth; Wright’s understated vocal cadence suggest a deep, embodied understanding of John Cage’s Indeterminacy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMovietone would go on to make three fantastic albums for \u003cstrong\u003eDomino\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003cem\u003eNight and Day\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eThe Blossom Filled Streets\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) and \u003cem\u003eThe Sand and The Stars\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) – and their \u003cem\u003ePeel Sessions\u003c\/em\u003e were released in 2022 on \u003cstrong\u003eTextile\u003c\/strong\u003e. Still held in high regard by artists like Steven R. Smith, and The Pastels, whose Stephen McRobbie once described them as “one of the great unknown English groups,” it’s an absolute thrill to listen to Movietone anew – still inspired, still seductive, still magic, still mysterious. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Of Echo","offers":[{"title":"Expanded Edition - 2LP - Vinyl","offer_id":60110550106457,"sku":"SDZ-24805","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/PID-19730-96-001.png?v=1792753099","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/movietone-movietone","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}