En Garde
by Puzzle Muteson
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En Garde Album 12" Vinyl & Download
LP & Download (with bonus track "Brittle Beak").
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En Garde CD & Download
CD Digipak & Download (with bonus track "Brittle Beak").
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7" Vinyl (Single)
7" vinyl including the single 'En Garde' as well as the b side 'Brittle Beak'.Buy Now €5 EUR or more
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Digital Album
Immediate download of 11-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Buy Now €6 EUR or more
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I Was Once A Horse
05:10
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A Tightrope Dance
02:52
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Water Rising
03:32
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En Garde
03:55
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Glover
04:52
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Medusa
04:09
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Alphabet Eyes
05:06
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Keyhole
04:31
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Perspex Disguise
04:27
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Flamingo Head
04:00
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about
Bedroom Community broadens the scope with En Garde by Puzzle Muteson, a mysterious, intimate record by a fearless songwriter and lyricist from the windswept Isle of Wight.
Arranged and produced by collaborators and labelmates Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson, En Garde is a strange, comforting and alarmingly personal record. Driven, spare lyrics are hoisted high by vocals of steady, sturdy tremble. Each tune swells with plush guitar pluck in a sea of orchestration and electronics. Recorded in the Greenhouse Studios in Iceland, the album collects Puzzle Muteson’s odd and beautiful stories - about love and horses; rust and polar bears; heartbreak and birds.
Puzzle’s songs are curious sounds from a troubled heart and his lyrics are urgent and open, striking a note with their vulnerable memories. “I Was Once A Horse” is an unforgettable song about nostalgia. The first single and title track, “En Garde”, pits Puzzle’s longing against waves of dense strings and jagged rhythm, while “Perspex Disguise” sets his naked, translucent vocals against shimmering piano that refracts off epic chords. In “Flamingo Head” he sings; “I left your house. You let me. I left you ugly”, buffeted by guitar and distant murmurs. “Not a single thing could take this magical sight. I’ll find you still”, he sings in “Medusa”, the story of a man tracking down a lost love.
En Garde takes an unexpected and unique voice and elevates it out of any easily discernible pocket. Puzzle Muteson could be “folk” or something completely different - instead he’s an intense stranger from the Isle of Wight - at once both familiar and unfamiliar. En Garde heralds a haunting and essential new voice, beautiful, earned and yearning.
Arranged and produced by collaborators and labelmates Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson, En Garde is a strange, comforting and alarmingly personal record. Driven, spare lyrics are hoisted high by vocals of steady, sturdy tremble. Each tune swells with plush guitar pluck in a sea of orchestration and electronics. Recorded in the Greenhouse Studios in Iceland, the album collects Puzzle Muteson’s odd and beautiful stories - about love and horses; rust and polar bears; heartbreak and birds.
Puzzle’s songs are curious sounds from a troubled heart and his lyrics are urgent and open, striking a note with their vulnerable memories. “I Was Once A Horse” is an unforgettable song about nostalgia. The first single and title track, “En Garde”, pits Puzzle’s longing against waves of dense strings and jagged rhythm, while “Perspex Disguise” sets his naked, translucent vocals against shimmering piano that refracts off epic chords. In “Flamingo Head” he sings; “I left your house. You let me. I left you ugly”, buffeted by guitar and distant murmurs. “Not a single thing could take this magical sight. I’ll find you still”, he sings in “Medusa”, the story of a man tracking down a lost love.
En Garde takes an unexpected and unique voice and elevates it out of any easily discernible pocket. Puzzle Muteson could be “folk” or something completely different - instead he’s an intense stranger from the Isle of Wight - at once both familiar and unfamiliar. En Garde heralds a haunting and essential new voice, beautiful, earned and yearning.
credits
released 06 June 2011
Music and lyrics written by Terry Magson.
Produced and mixed by Valgeir Sigurðsson
Terry Magson
vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Nico Muhly
piano, harmonium, Rhodes
Valgeir Sigurðsson
bass, percussion, synthesizer, programming, Rhodes
String and wind arrangements written and conducted by Nico Muhly
Violin: Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Zbigniew Dubik, Pálína Árnadóttir, Dóra Björgvinsdóttir, Bryndís Pálsdóttir.
Viola: Nadia Sirota.
Cello: Margrét Árnadóttir, Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir, Lovísa Fjeldsted.
Trombone: Helgi Jónsson, Jessica Buzbee, Sigurður Þórbergsson.
Bassoon: Rebekka Bryndís Björnsdóttir.
Harp: Katie Buckley
Additional vocals on Medusa: Helgi Jónsson
Engineered by Dan Bora and Valgeir Sigurðsson.
Recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík
Studio manager: Sturla Mio Þórisson.
Studio assistant: Paul Evans
Interns: Clément Lemennicier, Jérémy Joseph Vachet.
Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson
Art Direction and Design by Chris Bigg (based on an original concept by T. Magson)
Photography by Marc Atkins - www.panoptika.net
This is a Bedroom Community Record
www.puzzlemuteson.com
www.bedroomcommunity.net
Music and lyrics written by Terry Magson.
Produced and mixed by Valgeir Sigurðsson
Terry Magson
vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Nico Muhly
piano, harmonium, Rhodes
Valgeir Sigurðsson
bass, percussion, synthesizer, programming, Rhodes
String and wind arrangements written and conducted by Nico Muhly
Violin: Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Zbigniew Dubik, Pálína Árnadóttir, Dóra Björgvinsdóttir, Bryndís Pálsdóttir.
Viola: Nadia Sirota.
Cello: Margrét Árnadóttir, Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir, Lovísa Fjeldsted.
Trombone: Helgi Jónsson, Jessica Buzbee, Sigurður Þórbergsson.
Bassoon: Rebekka Bryndís Björnsdóttir.
Harp: Katie Buckley
Additional vocals on Medusa: Helgi Jónsson
Engineered by Dan Bora and Valgeir Sigurðsson.
Recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík
Studio manager: Sturla Mio Þórisson.
Studio assistant: Paul Evans
Interns: Clément Lemennicier, Jérémy Joseph Vachet.
Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson
Art Direction and Design by Chris Bigg (based on an original concept by T. Magson)
Photography by Marc Atkins - www.panoptika.net
This is a Bedroom Community Record
www.puzzlemuteson.com
www.bedroomcommunity.net
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Bedroom Community is an Icelandic record label/collective formed in 2006 by Valgeir Sigurðsson, with Nico Muhly and Ben
Frost, later adding Sam Amidon, Daníel Bjarnason, Puzzle Muteson and Paul Corley to the intimate roster.
"...the best record label in the whole of Iceland and maybe even the entire world" -Drowned in Sound
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