Sings Reign Rebuilder

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Sings Reign Rebuilder
Set Fire to Flames studio album

Publication
(s)

October 9, 2001

Label (s) Alien8 Recordings ALIEN30 , FatCat Records

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Post rock , musique concrète

Title (number)

15th

running time

73:25

occupation
  • Tape recorder, banjo, sound art : Alexandre St-Onge
  • Viola : Genevieve Heistek
  • Guitar: Mike Moya
  • Guitar: Roger Tellier-Craig

Studio (s)

15 Ontario, Montreal , Canada

chronology
- Sings Reign Rebuilder Telegraphs In Negative / Mouths Trapped In Static (2003)

Sings Reign Rebuilder is the debut album by the Canadian post-rock band Set Fire to Flames . It was released on Alien8 Recordings and FatCat Records in the fall of 2001.

History of origin

Guitarist Mike Moya on the making of the album:

“We decided to take a few pictures. Everyone got together, set up their instruments, and we just played. Sometimes we composed pieces while we played, sometimes we just mixed stuff up and recorded it and it sounded good. We didn't want to repeat Godspeed You and play with a big band all the time, so we always picked out a few people at random - hey, you and you, play something together! We spent about two weeks recording and in the end we had a lot of material that we had to cut down to an album. "

- Mike Moya

concept

Although it is not intended to be a concept album, recurring motifs appear in the album, consisting of field recordings , which deal with theoretical and practical concepts relating to the topics of climate , rebellion , gentrification and love .

The album was recorded in an ancient house ( called Ontario by the band 15 ). The dilapidated house was slated for demolition. Quote from the liner notes: "Your bulldozers and wrecking balls can make sawdust out of the dilapidated stairs and squeaky wooden boards - but they cannot destroy the recordings that were made here". So the album makes negative references to gentrification and social change , similar to the band's main project: Godspeed You! Black Emperor .

Therefore, many tones and sounds that are normally removed from the recordings were deliberately kept in the songs. These include squeaky doors, rustling paper and noises from outside. Probably the most famous sound comes from an ambulance driving by next to the house and its siren switched on in the song Love Song for 15 Ontario . The vehicle was later honored as a guest musician.

Track list

  1. 'I Will Be True…' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body # 1) / Reign Rebuilder [Head]  - 2:39
  2. Vienna Arcweld / Fucked Gamelan / Rigid Tracking  - 13:45
  3. Steal Compass / Drive North / Disappear  - 6:12
  4. Wild Dogs of the Thunderbolt / 'They Cannot Lock Me Up ... I Am Eternally Free…' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body # 2)  - 4:54
  5. Omaha  - 6:16
  6. There Is No Dance in Frequency and Balance  - 4:16
  7. Côte d'Abrahams Roomtone / 'What's Going On? ...' (From Lips of Lying Dying Wonder Body # 3)  - 4:35
  8. Love Song for 15 Ontario (w / Singing Police Car)  - 3:19
  9. Injur: Gutted Two-Track  - 2:49
  10. When I First Get to Phoenix  - 3:12
  11. Shit-Heap-Gloria of the New Town Planning  - 10:50
  12. Jesus / Pop  - 1:42
  13. Esquimalt Harbor  - 2:16
  14. Two Tears in a Bucket  - 3:43
  15. Fading Lights Are Fading… / Reign Rebuilder [Tail Out]  - 2:51

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Mike Moya. ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Tinnitus Music Webzine , 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tinnitus-mag.de
  2. ↑ Original: "your bulldozers and wrecking ball can make match-sticks out of the rickety staircase and crookt / creaking floorboards - but they can't erase the recording that was made here." Liner notes from the album, 2001.