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 Post subject: (2007-04-24) Cotton Mather fans? Future Clouds and Radar 2-cd
PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 4:57 pm 
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This wasn't new this week, but is a relatively new release. Robert Harrison, late of Cotton Mather, has a new double cd by his new band/project, Future Clouds and Radar. The s/t release, having just heard it for the first time, is often very reminiscent of Cotton Mather music, and overall is just plain old good music, with some quirky stuff interspersed. 'Round here Newbury Comics has the 2-cd package on sale for $9.99. If you enjoy power pop at all, it's more than worth that price.


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 Post subject: (2007-04-24) Cotton Mather fans? Future Clouds and Radar 2-cd
PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:55 pm 
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Audio samples and a complete tracklisting are available at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NQR7U2/?tag=imwan-20

And yeh, I agree with Rick that it's a terrific set which definitely will not disappoint fans of Robert Harrison's previous band, Cotton Mather. It sort of reminds me of the journey that Roy Wood took from The Move to Wizzard ~ not just because Robert has gone all Woody-esque in his appearance on the cover! :) ~ but in the sense that his songwriting chops are pretty much the same as they ever were (wordy, clever, Beatles-y) but he's presenting the songs in the context of a larger cast of musicians and some strange instrumentation.

Now, I had been following the genesis of this project over at the Cotton Mather forum for years ... Robert's original concept was to record all these tracks as two separate albums, the first being a Cotton Mather farewell disc, the second being his first solo release. Eventually he decided to put them all out in one 2-CD set under the name Future Clouds And Radar. But disc one does sound quite a bit like what a final Cotton Mather album might have sounded like ~ their White Album era, if you will ~ and disc two does sound more like Robert stretching out in a more experimental solo setting.

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 Post subject: (2007-04-24) Cotton Mather fans? Future Clouds and Radar 2-cd
PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:00 pm 
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A couple of extra goodies for y'all ...

One of the songs from the above album is freely downloadable in its entirety at the Future Clouds And Radar MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/futurecloudsandradartx

Also, you can listen to an NPR interview with Robert Harrison (including a few acoustic numbers) here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=7875135

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 Post subject: (2007-04-24) Cotton Mather fans? Future Clouds and Radar 2-cd
PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:21 am 
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Linda, loved the observation/insight with the Harrison-Wood comparison; that never occured to me. I know that this is one of those things that's going to grow on me the more i hear it, quirks and all. Thanks for all of the additional info and links.


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