{"product_id":"robocobra-quartet-ten-easy-pieces","title":"Robocobra Quartet - Ten Easy Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOff the back of the release of their 100 song album \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHundred Pieces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Irish experimental collective \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobocobra Quartet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e announce the release of a limited edition vinyl run of a selected tracklisting titled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen Easy Pieces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, featuring a new song only on this release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContinuing the band's obsession with chance, this bonus CD features a random selection of recordings from the '\u003cem\u003eHundred Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e' sessions which gave birth to '\u003cem\u003eTen Easy Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e', allowing a view into the creation of the record on your turntable\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis first pressing also includes a handwritten piece of tape, stuck individually on each and every sleeve to display the album’s title.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobocobra Quartet's touring has brought them from Montreux Jazz Festival to living rooms, pub basements, and as far as the Arctic Circle, while receiving acclaim from The Quietus, MOJO, The Guardian, The London Standard, Loud \u0026amp; Quiet, The Line Of Best Fit, and BBC Radio 6.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey say good ideas often start with a joke: the idea of a 100-track album was initially an off-hand remark, but very soon the band started writing specifically for “the hundred”, as they affectionately called it. Inspired by the durational art of \u003c\/span\u003eMarina Abramović\u003cspan\u003e, and specifically her memoir \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWalk Through Walls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Robocobra Quartet set about creating a one hundred track album as a composition in itself. During the writing process, saxophonist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThibault Barillon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e began growing petri dishes of fungus at home with a view to creating the artwork for the album. This soon became an improvised process in tandem with the music-making, furthering the band’s obsession with the idea of chance. Much like the organisms growing in the petri dishes, some of the songs grew into very complex studio productions laboured over for months, whereas others were simply moments captured during the writing process, their lives beginning and ending within just a few minutes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"We have a studio in an old Linen Mill in Belfast where we write and record, we set it up so that it was always mic'd up and capturing each instrument separately. Most days there would be like 8 hours of useless material, but occasionally the chaos would organise itself into 3 or 4 minutes of something magical, that we luckily had captured.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen Easy Pieces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sees this filtering process pushed farther, cutting the 100 songs down to a 'classic album' format of just 10 songs. “Most big pop albums start with probably around the same amount of demos, pared down to the final tracklist. The only difference is we've shown our working!” says drummer\/vocalist \u003c\/span\u003eChris W Ryan\u003cspan\u003e. The artwork for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen Easy Pieces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e builds from the petri dish artwork from the album campaign, showing an organism hat has dried up and finished its life cycle. The title of the album is a reference to a curated exhibition of endurance performance art of the same name by Marina Abramović - a fitting nod to curating down an ambitious project into a bitesize presentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fugazi meets Mingus” - Drowned in Sound\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Free floating musical explorers” - Hannah Peel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A signature sound of jazz-motivated, punk-informed spoken word” - Loud \u0026amp; Quiet”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFFO: This Heat, Squid, BCNR, Morphine, Fugazi, Tortoise.\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"lingua franca \/ Inis Records","offers":[{"title":"DINKED Edition #454","offer_id":60469418459481,"sku":"SDZ-56684","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":60469418492249,"sku":"SDZ-56685","price":30.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/PID-51924-96-001.png?v=1794509217","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/robocobra-quartet-ten-easy-pieces","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}