T'was the morning before Christmas...
(From yesterday - I didn't have an internet connection, otherwise this would have gone up at the time)
I'm sitting in the airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, wiating for a flight down to Miami, and it is quite something. We have a long layover of three hours sitting here, looking out the window across the tarmac at the cargo-plane area. The view here looks just like veiw at the airport in Portland, Maine, just like the view in Tucson, Arizona, just like the view at most airports really. Nothing like a long travel-day to make you feel like you're in a movie where nothing much happens...
Anyway, this new Miwon record, which is finally being released at the end of January (it was supposed to come out in October of this year, but there had been a string of holdups that kept it from making it to shelves) is a really great soundtrack to my stationary yet temporary existance here in the airport. The beats are icey and cold, the synths are delicate, and the vocals which appear on a few tracks, are sung softly by Miwon (Berlin-based artist Hendrik Kröz) himself and are gorgeous and witty.
This track is the first on the album - Pale Glitter - which is Miwon's first full length album, after a very successful 12" titled Brother Mole that was included on the Fabric mix CD by Two Lone Swordsmen's Andrew Wetherall. Pale Glitter is being released by the always-on-point Manchester UK & Berlin based City Centre Offices (who I mentioned a little while ago when I posted the re-released Ulrich Schnauss record) on January 24th, and will be available to buy from our friends at Forced Exposure. If you're in Germany (or don't mind paying the import price), you can order it from Hausmusik.
Now it is Christmas Eve... my young, soon to be brothers-in-law are so excited about tomorrow I think they may well explode!