Frantic samples and a persistent quarter note beat play underneath the main feature of this song. The talkboy tapes, as i described in my blog entry of june 23, were another highlight of pauls sample library. I wish i was a boy a cold freezin night oh, baby ah. The albums title track features what could have been left alone as a pretty new age piano melody, but then develops involved beat patterns, over which an intensely edited.
A cold freezin night by the books samples, covers and remixes. Watch the video for a cold freezin night from the bookss the way out for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The books a cold freezin night lyrics genius lyrics. Interview nick zammuto of the books december 6, 2010. A cold freezin night i have been obsessed with this amazing and ridiculous song by the books from back in 2010 for the past few weeks. Every track needs to sound like it comes from its own. The rain was pouring heavily, when a woman, with child in her arms, entered the little village of southwark. Its worth noting the phillie phanatic, a staple of my childhood, makes an appearance in the books frantic video collage for a cold freezin night. This keeps in line with the playful, slightly devilish, and sometimes outright hilarious sense of humor best demonstrated on books tracks such as a cold freezin night. The common cold is unlike any other human disease because of two f tors.
A cold freezin night for doomed lovers a cold freezin night for doomed lovers. Welcome to a new beginning declares a voice at the start of the way out, and this album does indeed mark a fresh new chapter for the books. Interview nick zammuto of the books goodnight, neverland. The books the lemon of pink schizophrenic samplemagic. Join napster and access fulllength songs on your phone, computer or home audio device. A cold freezin night and again on home alone 2, the talkboy, dueling siblings, and how to make a rhythm generator using a 3 speaker, a plastic mirror, and a ballpoint pen hear a sample. It was a bitterly cold night in the month of november, 30. Augmented by a third, and sometimes a fourth member, the duo known as the books thrilled a packed and energetic audience for 90 minutes last night at the modern art museum of fort worth. The books a cold freezin night via the fader the way out is out in 720 via temporary residence. Last week the books released their newest single, a cold freezin. These guys know where the fun is, and will talk about it on their forthcoming album, the way out.
There was a movie in the 90s called home alone 2, with macaulay culkin, and there was a tape recorder in that movie that he uses to disguise his voice when the bad guys are looking for him. These titles are presented newest to oldest, with the newest titles being at the top. Echoing the found sounds from which their recorded work is meticulously created, they apply a similar approach to old snippets of video and film, chopping and cutting reels and reels of thrift store film stock and abandoned home movies into a visual accompaniment to the sounds being made, the images on the screen. The lyrics of the song, which are made up entirely of samples of children talking, are indeed profoundly disturbing. The opening sample in a cold freezin night is a perfect examplelisten very carefully you will unmistakably hear a line from a well known kids song, distorted to the edge of recognizability, but i promise you its there.
The books have become one of those bands who add a little something extra live. The opening sample in a cold freezin night is a perfect. The way out is the fourth album from the books and their first in five years. Black emperor and portishead, the books a cold freezin night, dooms gazzillion ear love the hadron collider shout out. The books are not my familys music group, but rather are a completely different entity.
The way out is beautiful and characteristically conceptual, built upon samples culled from old selfhelp recordings and glued to a flurry of. What i did for a cold freezin night is send a 20 hz sound and a 30 hz sound through the mirror simultaneously, and held a ball point pen gently against different parts of the mirror and recorded the result. Kill them by jj sampled the books s a cold freezin night. Im guessing those recorders inspired a generation of sample musicians. Listen to your favorite songs from the way out by books now. A cold freezin night, the second taste from popcollagist duo the books forthcoming longplayer the way out out july 20 on temporary residence, is built around samples of kids insulting each other and issuing grave physical threats. A cold freezin night by the books discover this songs samples, covers and remixes on whosampled.
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight. Kill them by jj sampled the bookss a cold freezin night. Samples of kids whispering and singing into tape recorders. I am who i am on the names of god, preacher rhythm, and idm. A cold freezin night also came very early in the process of making the way out. I have heard of the books forever, but i never took the time to check them out. The samplehappy tape intellectuals the books will drop their first album in five years on july 20. For the 2010 shortdocs challenge we teamed up with the books. She tottered rather than walked, and when, upon her arrival at the gateway on the southern side of london bridge, she found that the hour. The working concept for the sound of the way out was pretty simple. The books have a terrific sense of humor and it makes the way out, an album built on eccentric vocal samples, a goodnatured discovery instead of a. These two factors have made a cure for the common cold one of the most difficult. A cold freezin night is composed of a lot of samples of kids saying things like i will kill you and hes an asshole, and in keeping, the video. A cold freezin night, the second taste from popcollagist duo the books forthcoming longplayer the way out out july 20 on temporary residence, is built.
The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house. Much like their 2005 effort lost and safe, the new record consists of bright collages, some of which have pop or folkstyle vocals. The books a cold freezin night you cant really talk about found sound without talking about the books they have perfected the art of making music as untraditionally as possible. The album seems to switch between sampledriven collage pieces and more conventionally composed songs. For the video for the tune, which was put together by the books. She had evidently come from a distance, for her dress was travelstained and muddy. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. The cold reader exploits that the human mind is a whiz at making senses of information, shaping faces out of leaves, finding religious icons on pieces of toast, and letting us believe general sentences and uncertain questions add up to prophesy.
The meads of asphodel running out of time doing nothing. From there you can reach the books information page via the link provided at the bottom of the sample or by clicking on the image of the books cover on its sample page. What was the source of the recordings with the roughtalking kids on a cold freezin night. It was to mark a new, albeit relatively short, chapter for the band. Since we leaked this track last month, the responses have ranged from unbridled joy, to. Their fourth album together, celebrated folktronic cutup merchants the books return on a new label for the way out, their first release in half a decade. The books a cold freezin night lyrics songmeanings. For example, in the song a cold freezin night on the new album, ive played it for friends and some think its superunsettling and some think its absolutely hilarious.
Sampletwisting virtuosos the books are set to release their next fulllength, the way out, this summer on temporary residence limited. The samplehappy tape intellectuals the books will drop their first album in five years on july 20, causing a million indierock dudes and perhaps the french ministry of culture to cream their jeans. Each link will bring you to the sample for a given book. From the album the way out directed by the books the books. But for the most part, when it comes to doing the work of creating new. In a sky of iron the points of the dipper hung like icicles and orion flashed his cold fires. Listen to both songs on whosampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. A cold freezin night, the second taste from popcollagist duo the. In the former camp youll hear tracks like the single, a cold freezin night, which takes the form of mosaic of mischievous childrens. So many amazing tracks from the beasties i love mcas sections. Of course at this point it just sounds like a buzzing nightmare ill try to post the sound later tonight. Is there ever a conscious effort to encourage multiple interpretation or reaction. For the video for the tune, which was put together by. The books play a new song at the 2009 musicnow festival.
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