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Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon : demo (IRL/UK,2007)**°°
I received a demo of this group/project which consisted of 3 tracks from the EP, released May 2007, and 4 tracks from the upcoming full release, which will be released January 2008. This should give me an idea of the artist.
Phantom of the Dog beneath the Moon is actually a duo for which the singer/songwriter part with guitar is by Aaron, and the electronic music & textures by Scott. Both artists work well together, which is when the singer is well focused and uses his voice like a crying instrument, with sweet pickings on guitar, like on “To be kind”, the instrumentalist colours the rest perfectly too. “Blue Velvet Lullaby” reaches higher in the sky with this kind of singing, as if trying to catch something from the air, just like water reaching up to become absorbed in the air and eternity, and then fall from the sky like snow, peacefully. On the track, “a web emerging from fog”, the textures fit perfectly with the title : the piano theme sounds like ice, there are echoing amplified guitar tones, and all of this becomes pretty abstract, in a descriptive way, a bit hazy foggy and misty. But the music as well as songs and vocals can also lose itself completely in that haze, losing its clear form in melody and arrangements, becoming blurry like melted snow into ice. Then, the electronica forms small little soundscapes on its own…
This demo contains 3 tracks from the EP, released may 2007, and 4 tracks from the upcoming full release, which will be released january 2008.
