Domino Rec.
Adem : These are your friends (single) (UK,2004)***°
I’m glad I can check thoroughly an EP by this artist. Really a shame that instead of being able to make a single a real 'art piece', artists or companies seems to be obliged to add (here as a first track) a “radio edit” version edited to within 5 minutes, because a 6 and half minute song doesn’t get broadcast. This tells me a lot about the hectic superficiality of too many radioshows and radiostations, that this still seems really necessary. At least it's not so in my show.* “These are your friends” makes me a musical friend. It's a song of warmth for friendship (with acoustic guitar, xylophone, bass, percussion, and a chorus part “celebration-for-this”). “After the storm” sounds like a sad but simple Tsunami-event related song…written before it happened. It’s accompanied by acoustic guitar, and some banjo. After an interlude with backstage mouthharmonica waves (called the “Tunnel Interlude"), a thumbpiano (and later a metalophone) accompanied the first words of “Let it burn”, a dark song with hope for a new chance, with gentle and tenderness remaining intact.
A nice single release that makes me look for more.
On the very nice video of "These are your friends" the friends seems to be the nice artwork-like creations of birds and other kind of creatures, which are also presented on his homepage.
Later I checked the full CD. For me it didn't have too much more to add to the highlighting song and nice clip.
