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01. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - This Is My Way of Saying That I Am Sorry
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02. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - Flat Seat
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03. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - In The Stillness of This Night
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04. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - Committing to Uncertainty
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05. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - Nu Dat Deze Dag Voorbij Is
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06. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - Dronning Maud Land
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07. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - Ask the Dusk
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08. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - Be My Love
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09. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - Nothing Is Gone
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10. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - The Tears That Bind Us to This Place
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11. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - The World Touches Me Too Hard
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12. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - There Is Calm to Be Done
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13. DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ - I Miss the Dust
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ARTIST
DAKOTA SUITE & QUENTIN SIRJACQ
TITLE
There Is Calm to Be Done
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
KARAOKE KALK
CATALOG #
KK 081CD
KK 081CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/22/2014
Following 2011's
The Hearts of Empty
(KK 059CD), Liverpool-based band
Dakota Suite
, led by
Chris Hooson
in collaboration with
David Buxton
, are back with another superb album on Karaoke Kalk. While
Hearts of Empty
was a distinctly jazzy instrumental album,
There Is Calm to Be Done
takes us further down a path of left-field songwriting and alternative pop. The album was produced together with
Quentin Sirjacq
, with whom Dakota Suite have already worked in the past, on
Valissa
(2010) and
The Side of Her Inexhaustible Heart
(2012). The most striking thing about the Dakota Suite sound is their immense instrumentation. While most songs are driven by the piano, they are adorned with all kinds of instruments to provide an overall timbre of great majesty. The presence of brass parts, woodwind, double bass and a wide array of instruments makes for a special sound. Rhythmically, the drum parts throughout the majority of
There Is Calm to Be Done
are played with brushes, which takes the edge off and adds a gentleness that only the swooshing of brushes can achieve. The use of lap steel on the opening number "This Is My Way of Saying That I Am Sorry" conjures up a definite country-rock feel. While the album is mainly song-based, there are vast instrumental passages strewn throughout the record and intermingled between songs. "Flat Seat" is one such instrumental tune with a decidedly filmic character; a lilting composition both mesmerizing and intriguing. Much of the album feels as if it could be film music, and each tune conjures a vivid image in the listener's mind to which the music plays the soundtrack.
Hooson
's vocals are striking both for their singing-style and lyrical content. "Dronning Maud Land," for example, begins with the humorous line "I seem to have grown myself a pair of old man's hands," but the delivery is somber and melancholy. "In the Stillness of This Night" is a powerful ballad that fuses the touching vocals and lyrical style that is so prevalent on the album with an evocative arrangement. "Committing to Uncertainty" is a somewhat darker composition, with the brass and woodwind orchestration building to a powerful crescendo. "Be My Love" stands out as a prime example of singer-songwriting, as it relies solely on acoustic guitar and vocals. It is an unspeakably tender song with a highly fragile yet resolute emotional lure. The penultimate title-track on the album, true to its name, is a delightfully calm tune. The record draws to a close with the minimally-orchestrated "I Miss the Dust," a very delicate instrumental that drifts away like leaves on a breeze. Dakota Suite's music has covered such diverse genres as lo-fi, folk-rock, electronic, ambient, and taken in elements of jazz and modern classical.
There Is Calm to Be Done
explores the art of songwriting while also venturing beyond, into new fields, to create something new and subtle.
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