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Artist:	ELECTRIC PRESIDENT
Title:	You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 1
Label:	A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	ANOST 009EP

Released in 2006. You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 1 begins with the organic "Good Ol' Boys," a carefully-arranged juxtaposition of soundtracks and sound signals. A track that borrows its concentration from rhythm and its electronic oscillations from digital music. A track that matures into analog vividness. "Dotted Lines" seems to be the exact opposite: almost a folk song, carried by an acoustic guitar and a likeable melody.

Artist:	ELECTRIC PRESIDENT
Title:	You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 2
Label:	A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	ANOST 010EP

Released in 2006. You Have the Right to Remain Awesome: Volume 2 starts with a dawn of two guitar patterns and flows into a captivating melody that is supported by tender trumpets. "I'm Not The Lonely Son (I'm The Ghost)" is a meandering pop song, a song for sunsets. "Wearing Influences On Our Sleeve-Less T-Shirts" appears equally direct but more quiet and stately. And once more there is Ben Cooper's clear and direct voice. A ballad maybe -- were there no handclaps within the chorus and if "ballad" weren't a cheesy category.

Artist:	ELECTRIC PRESIDENT
Title:	Electric President
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MORR 062CD

Music sounds different by the sea than at any other place: Burt Bacharach's Pacific Coast Highway, Jim
       O'Rourke's Ghost Ship in a Storm, or those Teenage Symphonies to God which Brian Wilson composed
       in his California bedroom -- having an artificial beach underneath his feet. The tracks on Electric President
       throw a glance at the sea as well. They drifted from Jacksonville Beach, Florida through the Atlantic Ocean up to Berlin,
       from Ben Cooper to Morr Music. These ten songs interpret pop as an ocean of impressions and sensations and surf on
       their own special surge. Ben Cooper compiled his clear but complex pop pearls along with Alex Kane. Continuously,
       Cooper's soft but still precise idiom drifts into our ears as a flattering yearning. And maybe it is this voice that
       describes his music's agenda best: stripped, immediate and interwoven with euphonic choirs. Some people might be reminded
       of Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard -- but without the teenage angst.

Artist:	ELECTRIC PRESIDENT
Title:	Sleep Well
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MORR 084CD

This is the second album by Electric President (Ben Cooper & Alex Kane), made in the same shed in Jacksonville Beach, Florida as their previous records and in Alex's bedroom. The wind blows the sounds away. It's foggy. Beads of dew glisten on the leaves. Outside, in the small tool shed, the light is still on. The ocean is not far away. Concentration and contemplation: for over 13 months, Electric President recorded what Ben Cooper calls a "middle of the night record;" his "12 pop songs about dreams and nightmares." Dreams and nightmares is what Sleep Well is about -- shadowy and inscrutable atmospheres, the border landscapes of our existence where the fog and the wind passes the sounds over to us. As British as sea-shanties, these songs seem to disappear into echo spirals, when Cooper's voice gradually disappears from the microphone until it nearly sounds ghostly. "Ether" is an absolute metamorphosis in the tradition of Franz Kafka or Orson Welles -- a typical Ben Cooper pop song that is hymnal but never theatrical. "Monster" forms sounds into a melodic, sparkling landscape, while "Graves And The Infinite Arm" is a dark, melancholy, gothic novel. The wind blows the sounds away. And us with them.

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