{"product_id":"cst141-deadbeat-camara-trinity-thirty","title":"CST141 Deadbeat \u0026 Camara | Trinity Thirty","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eTrinity Thirty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e is a celebration and reinterpretation of the much beloved Cowboy Junkies classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe Trinity Session\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, on the occasion of the album’s 30th anniversary (originally released in late 1988). The idea was spawned when Berlin-based Canadian producer Scott Monteith — best known as DJ and dub-inflected minimal techno-electronica recording artist Deadbeat — heard the Junkies’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e version of \"Sweet Jane\" playing in an airport a few years back. Viscerally reminded of how much he loved the album, and how surprisingly overground the record ended up becoming (by mid-1989 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe Trinity Session\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e would be certified Platinum in both Canada and The United States – truly another era!), Monteith immediately reached out to the band to ask if they had anything planned to mark its 30th birthday. Before Monteith even touched down back in Berlin, the band had replied saying they had no such plans but would enthusiastically support whatever angle Monteith\/Deadbeat might want to run with.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMonteith then recalled conversations with musician\/producer and fellow Canadian-in-Berlin Fatima Camara (whose acclaimed debut solo album Before We Sleep came out on Parachute Records in 2016) about their shared love of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trinity Session\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, feeling she’d be the perfect partner to involve in a reinterpretation. Camara was thrilled by the idea, and the two began meeting to explore how to approach things conceptually and aesthetically. This would be their first collaboration – and the first time either artist placed their own vocals at the forefront of a project (with guest vocalist Caoimhe McAlister adding harmonies on certain tracks).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trinity Session\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is rightly celebrated for its naturalistic, profoundly languorous covers of classic tunes and traditional work songs (“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”, “Mining For Gold”, “Blue Moon” et al) – and famous for having been recorded with a single microphone in single takes at a church in Toronto. For \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrinity Thirty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Deadbeat and Camara similarly re-recorded everything with ambient mics in a big open space at Berlin’s Chez Cherie studio, relying heavily on natural room acoustics, committed to raw first takes, guided by an overriding strategy of slowing down all the tempos as far as they could while continuing to channel the warm asceticism of the original album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInitially imagining they would run a fair amount of electronic treatments during the mix, Deadbeat and Camara instead found themselves absorbed by the spaces, silences and atmospherics, guided by a spirit of preservation and restraint in further homage to the original. The result is “a less electronic album than we imagined making”: a gorgeous somnambulant collection of ‘covers of covers’, where the reference point is always the Cowboy Junkies original approach, stretched to new and beguiling limits of deceleration and narcotized spaciousness (a sensibility reinforced by the mastering treatment of minimalist dub-techno legend Stefan Betke of ~scape\/Pole).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe gauzy, quavering, reverberant slowcore vibes of artists like Galaxie 500, Grouper and Codeine are a key reference point for Deadbeat \u0026amp; Camara’s prevailing aesthetic: clouds of textured drone and hushed vocals drift through cavernous space, where long decays gently warp and distort the melodic vocal lines and the insistently languid percussion, anchored by thick saturated bass tones representing the most overt influence carried through from their electronic music bona fides. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrinity Thirty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a gorgeously sedate, subtly avant-garde and wonderfully reverent re-interpretation of this classic album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThanks for listening.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"2x180gLP+MP3","offer_id":56361835888932,"sku":"unw1789925254162","price":21.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2x180gLP+WAV","offer_id":56361835921700,"sku":"isb1789925254163","price":22.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":56361835954468,"sku":"raa1789925254164","price":9.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":56361835987236,"sku":"wfb1789925254165","price":4.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":56361836020004,"sku":"hqu1789925254166","price":5.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2772\/3044\/files\/cst141-deadbeat-camara-trinity-thirty_1.jpg?v=1789925258","url":"https:\/\/burtprimehub.shop\/products\/cst141-deadbeat-camara-trinity-thirty","provider":"burtprimehub","version":"1.0","type":"link"}