Carola Baer - The Story of Valerie (2018) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Carola Baer
- Title: The Story of Valerie
- Year Of Release: 1991/2018
- Label: Concentric Circles
- Genre: Electronic, Folk, Synthpop, Experimental
- Quality: 24-bit/48kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 41 min
- Total Size: 433 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
By a stroke of pure luck, Carola Baer’s intoxicatingly dreamy avant-pop side ‘The Story of Valerie’ is made available for the first time via Concentric Circles, a new label minted by Jed Bindeman - the co-owner of Freedom To Spend with Pete Swanson
Apparently discovered in the goodwill bins of a Portland, OR thrift shop during the short window before said bins are sent to the dump, Carola Baer’s sole album - originally a demo tape for prospective collaboration - came this • close to escaping everyone’s attention, but now takes pride of place as the first Concentric Circles release.
Written circa 1990 on a Yamaha DX7, a Casio CZ-101, and a basic drum machinee while UK-based Carola was passing thru San Francisco on her way to Australia, ‘The Story of Valerie’ is a transfixingly intimate and melancholic affair whose heightened emotive atmosphere was the result of meeting new spirits and foreign partnerships that turned into relationships.
Its 11 songs are hauntingly frank and confessional, delivered in a style unmistakably indebted to early 4AD, but not beholden to it, as Carola is just as likely to err into edge of new age ambient-pop themes perhaps equally comparable with a lo-fi Enya, whilst also interspersed with much more wayward expressions of stressed distortion and even some wild rhythmic experimentation.
Of course, the discovery of ‘The Story of Valerie’ probably isn’t going to change the world, but it is most humbling to know that this kind of brilliance continues to resurface from blind spots everywhere. In the most classic sense of great art, it sometimes takes time to find your audience. In this case 28 years.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Carola Baer - Maker of Me (3:55)
1.02 - Carola Baer - Golden Boy (3:55)
1.03 - Carola Baer - Save Me (3:18)
1.04 - Carola Baer - We Already Feel (2:51)
1.05 - Carola Baer - Springtime (1:22)
1.06 - Carola Baer - Doors Talk (4:54)
1.07 - Carola Baer - Solemn Cattle (4:02)
1.08 - Carola Baer - Nothing Left to Say (3:17)
1.09 - Carola Baer - See the Lights Again (3:37)
1.10 - Carola Baer - Dreams (3:45)
1.11 - Carola Baer - On Top of the Mountain (6:14)
Apparently discovered in the goodwill bins of a Portland, OR thrift shop during the short window before said bins are sent to the dump, Carola Baer’s sole album - originally a demo tape for prospective collaboration - came this • close to escaping everyone’s attention, but now takes pride of place as the first Concentric Circles release.
Written circa 1990 on a Yamaha DX7, a Casio CZ-101, and a basic drum machinee while UK-based Carola was passing thru San Francisco on her way to Australia, ‘The Story of Valerie’ is a transfixingly intimate and melancholic affair whose heightened emotive atmosphere was the result of meeting new spirits and foreign partnerships that turned into relationships.
Its 11 songs are hauntingly frank and confessional, delivered in a style unmistakably indebted to early 4AD, but not beholden to it, as Carola is just as likely to err into edge of new age ambient-pop themes perhaps equally comparable with a lo-fi Enya, whilst also interspersed with much more wayward expressions of stressed distortion and even some wild rhythmic experimentation.
Of course, the discovery of ‘The Story of Valerie’ probably isn’t going to change the world, but it is most humbling to know that this kind of brilliance continues to resurface from blind spots everywhere. In the most classic sense of great art, it sometimes takes time to find your audience. In this case 28 years.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Carola Baer - Maker of Me (3:55)
1.02 - Carola Baer - Golden Boy (3:55)
1.03 - Carola Baer - Save Me (3:18)
1.04 - Carola Baer - We Already Feel (2:51)
1.05 - Carola Baer - Springtime (1:22)
1.06 - Carola Baer - Doors Talk (4:54)
1.07 - Carola Baer - Solemn Cattle (4:02)
1.08 - Carola Baer - Nothing Left to Say (3:17)
1.09 - Carola Baer - See the Lights Again (3:37)
1.10 - Carola Baer - Dreams (3:45)
1.11 - Carola Baer - On Top of the Mountain (6:14)
Year 2018 | Pop | Folk | Rock | Electronic | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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