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STEVE HIETT Girls In The Grass CD
- CD
opakowanie: digipack + książeczka
Three emotional years in the making, Be With and Efficient Space finally present Steve Hiett’s Girls In The Grass. Pressed alongside the long awaited reissue of his one-shot masterpiece Down On The Road By The Beach, these ten balearic soul instrumentals are of equal necessity; unrivalled beauty rescued from the fashion photographer-guitarist’s Paris Tapes (1986-1997).
Recordings never intended for release should often be approached with caution yet this is a rare case of unheard material being assembled as a coherent and indispensable piece. Girls In The Grass is something super special. The beautiful light and shadow that defines Hiett’s music is arguably more compelling here. It speaks to us in a language that feels profound, yet entirely comforting and familiar.
Girls In The Grass reintroduces Hiett’s languid electric blues boogie, crafted on Saturday afternoons with fellow art director Simon Kentish. Kentish would cook, pour some wine and then utilise his arsenal of technology. He’d dial up a chugging rhythm, together with some ambient pads or keyboard textures, and anchor the weightless gauze of Hiett’s six-stringed touch.
Hiett’s guitar sings with the same clean, crisp tone as Down On The Road, animated by a carefree weekend groove. While his defining album was boiled under pressure, these subsequent sessions had all the time in the world. The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T, sounding like sun-warped takes on wordless, fractured non-hits from his heroes The Beach Boys.
Remastered for public pleasure by Simon Francis, these private moments are adorned with Hiett’s singular photography and feature typically idiosyncratic liner notes from Mikey IQ Jones.
1 Are These My Memories?
2 Walking Across The Field
3 Summer Stroll
4 It's Raining Tomorrow
5 Dancing In July
6 Shadows Across The Path
7 Waiting By The Car
8 Kinda Knew Anna
9 Love That Bird
10 More Rain In The Woods
11 Coming Back Again
12 I Saw Your Car