Thanking You For Listening [MP3]
The Matinee March [MP3]
Run For Cover (Its Going To Rain) [MP3]
Imagination Of A Watermelon [MP3]
A Mobile, before being a phone, and before being something that goes with you, was thing that goes above you, goes in circles. The first Mobile is that merry-go-round that the parents hang over the head of their baby. Believing it spread health or just joy, one can’t deny that it all looks too much like superstition. When you are older you get garlic hung over your head, or around your neck, so all that babies can do is thank the colorfulness of their talisman. Many of these make sounds, inside tiny parts, metallic hands, pluck other parts, and make subtle primitive sound. We later discover them to be named lullabies. Our night music, to sleep with. It’s odd to create music that is not to be listened to, but is meant to alter the state of its listener so he won’t be able to listen, at least not in the conventional conscious way. When you are a baby, these shows of colors and movement occur over your head not only at night. Sleep is only bounded to the night at a later point, when you are young it’s still free. And so we have such shows during the day, our own private Matinee Orchestra.
The Matinee Orchestra do just that. They create that wonderful lullaby, the one to which we listen to during the day, the one forgotten so long ago. It’s music to sleep to (at night), and to be awake to (during the day). It’s for the winter indoors, and for the outdoors in the summer. Oh, and it’s nice to us, so nice.
Links:
The Matinee Orchestra @ MySpace
Review at Stylus magazine