Taylor Alexis - Await Barbarians - VINYL LP

Mendelssohn / Brahms / Tillmanns / Franck / Bach - Organ Music from 17th-19th Century [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/01/2001

Alexis Taylor is one of the UK's most distinctive singer-songwriters. A singular voice, he's built a substantial body of solo work over the years. Paris In The Spring is his most revealing album yet, baring sentiments both specific and universal. The subject matter doesn't shy away from hard-hitting themes, but musically, it's carefree, brightly-lit and contemporary, drawing on elegant disco-house, voluptuous basslines and Vangelis-inspired soundscapes. Testament to his skill as a curator, he's called on some impressive personnel to help create it's effervescent sound world Air's Nicolas Godin, The Avalanches, Lola Kirke, Oli Bayston, Étienne de Crécy, Elizabeth White of Pale Blue and Scritti Politti's Green Gartside, to name but a few. In this world, the confessional style of country is charged by the pop melodicism of Paul McCartney, the futuristic funk of Sly and the Family Stone and, as Taylor puts it, Inchsynthesisers left out in the rainInch. It's where British Americana meets Gallic flair, somewhere on Mars. Thankfully, no synths were harmed in the making of the album. The title references a psychological test where things are not as they seem. InchYou have to look for those double meanings, or what's hiding under the surface.Inch Ultimately, this is an album about freedom from constraints, from preconceptions, from genre. Taylor experiments with all different musical styles - country, folk, disco - and has weaved it together here into something unique.

Double vinyl LP pressing. The album is the third studio album by Teyana Taylor, the follow up to her K.T.S.E. album. She is featured in the movie Coming 2 America.