the psych-folk/pop inspirations of

Your Team Ring

CD (2002), CD (2004)

Perhaps Transparent Your Team Ring : Homelife (US,2002)**'

On “Homelife” Your Team Ring is some kind of (science fiction story related) fantasy group making neo-60’s psychedelica with lots of acoustic and some exotic elements. Here we hear a kind of dreamy never-ending-story, with Beatlesque vocals and colouring instrumentation, only descriptive to make fuller, or better denser arrangements, -still very dreamy-, with a cheesy, chewing gum psychpop sound.

Soundfiles from "Homelife" : “The Problem with the Fourth Dimension“, “Homelife”

Review : http://www.tonevendor.com/item/5663 & http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=3226326299722951

and http://www.perhapstransparent.cd=20.. and http://www.perhapstransparent.cd=20..

Perhaps Transparent  Your Team Ring : In Service of the villain (US,2004)**'

Also “On Service..” has these Beatlesque vocals, and such psychedelic exotic arrangements on dreamy neo-60’s psychpop melodies. Perhaps the thickness in arrangements here and there is less, which I find an improvement. The denseness on its own makes the music work in a very stoned way, and also the multilayered sound increases this effect. Never the less this density -which is used in pop music more  often-, I find a little bit more demanding in listening as it has to be, because there’s not much time to breathe and relax to let the sound calmly be absorbed by developing ideas of sounds themself,-something which musicians usually let happen in the more intuitive and folky sides of psychedelica-. From the different arrangements I very much like the ritualistic layers on “Thoughts of Norea”. It is on tracks like “Who is from Silence” where some acoustic instrumental has more relaxed improvisation added. Funny, the rhythm is made with a pair of scissors on "Read like a Frozen Foundling".

Other soundfile from "In Service of the villain": "In Service of the villain", "Damaged Goods"

info : http://www.yourteamring.com/ with soundfiles at http://www.yourteamring.com/sounds/

& http://www.perhapstransparent.com/artists/artist.php3?authorid=20

http://www.psychedelic-music.net/pmdb/db3/db_band.php4?id=598

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