I don't know how many times I've said it but I'll say it again. I have no idea why some of this stuff tickles my fancy. It just does.
2 guys from the UK (Dan Lyons & Reuben Harman-Mitchell) sitting around, just making weird stuff up (I'm guessing). It's Experimental, Avant Garde, and (they assure us) "not serious". And just in case you thought they were serious, they call themselves The Purple Gherkins.
You may be wondering why I'm saying all that given that the only thing absurd about the track above is the title. And, yes, it was the title that first attracted me. Well, "That Feeling You Get..." was one track on an entire Purple Gherkins album--the second of three they've released--ostensibly a Christmas album creatively titled "The Xmas Album" (released this past July, of course, because, hey, it's what you do). The album, itself, is largely absurd. One track is pretty much just airhorn accompanying Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". And, other than sleigh bells on the front end of an opening track that is, otherwise, unlistenable noise, there's nothing especially Christmasy about the set. Indeed, the pair seem quite proud of an early review of "The Xmas Album", which begins "impressively less cohesive than the first album".
But, periodically, the duo slows down and just play some really pretty music--the sort of New Age/Ambient music that was much more common in the early days of Indie music on the Internets. So you can feel free to check out (and download) "The Xmas Album" in its entirety, but I'm just going to point you to this one, which, oddly enough, does sound like that feeling you get when you picture some frogs in the winter sunlight on the 7th day of Christmas when the air is about -2 degrees celcius but no colder. Or maybe its just me.......and them.
The name-your-price download of the album and the song are available via Bandcamp. "Slep (Sleighp)" isn't bad, either. That one's got a bit of a "New Chautauqua" vibe to it.
2 guys from the UK (Dan Lyons & Reuben Harman-Mitchell) sitting around, just making weird stuff up (I'm guessing). It's Experimental, Avant Garde, and (they assure us) "not serious". And just in case you thought they were serious, they call themselves The Purple Gherkins.
You may be wondering why I'm saying all that given that the only thing absurd about the track above is the title. And, yes, it was the title that first attracted me. Well, "That Feeling You Get..." was one track on an entire Purple Gherkins album--the second of three they've released--ostensibly a Christmas album creatively titled "The Xmas Album" (released this past July, of course, because, hey, it's what you do). The album, itself, is largely absurd. One track is pretty much just airhorn accompanying Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". And, other than sleigh bells on the front end of an opening track that is, otherwise, unlistenable noise, there's nothing especially Christmasy about the set. Indeed, the pair seem quite proud of an early review of "The Xmas Album", which begins "impressively less cohesive than the first album".
But, periodically, the duo slows down and just play some really pretty music--the sort of New Age/Ambient music that was much more common in the early days of Indie music on the Internets. So you can feel free to check out (and download) "The Xmas Album" in its entirety, but I'm just going to point you to this one, which, oddly enough, does sound like that feeling you get when you picture some frogs in the winter sunlight on the 7th day of Christmas when the air is about -2 degrees celcius but no colder. Or maybe its just me.......and them.
The name-your-price download of the album and the song are available via Bandcamp. "Slep (Sleighp)" isn't bad, either. That one's got a bit of a "New Chautauqua" vibe to it.
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