Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson remix)

who is cortney tidwell herself? from the original i'm thinking some kind of wispy, gauzy singer-songwriter. voice is - lazy comparisons alert - somewhere between liz fraser and bjork. the guitar line which pearson threads through the first few minutes really reminds me of something - massive attack? - but the way it builds on that is quite incredible, blossoms would be a better word.

best track: Mama from the Mountain

reminds me of 90s 4ad/guernica act Insides circa the Euphoria album

Due to the fact that Cortney's music is virtually unknown in the US and Canada, in the UK her media profile is a lot higher.

I understand the album will finally be released in the US in 2007.

she also sounds a bit like some lost tropicalia artist, gal costa in nashville in the grey rain

Yes, I can hear some of that too.

check it out i made a video for this - just some minor editing of a crazy John Halas animation from 1981:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WVslylGg1ks

at any rate, i predict her record will do pretty well in '07 end-of-year voting....

no joy - and i didn't nominate it for ilx poll because of it's original release in '06

What the hell, are you mixing it with something during the beginning or has the version I've been listening to totally different?

yeah it's from a mix i put together (linked to on the DJ mixes thread) so you hear the end of 'Get Innocuous' at the start plus a bit of Map Of Africa at the end

Whew, I thought I had been listening to some sort of incomplete version.

Listening to eyes are at the billions right now" off her record from 07. Whoa. This is doing my head in.If I had heard this before, I would've posted this song in my best of list from 07. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to hear what happens when country meets shoegaze ??? Amazing.

yes! so great. I didn't hear that album until the very end of 2007, but I love it to death and was pushing it incessantly on everyone I know for a couple months.

she's playing out some, saw her last night at Nashville's Exit/In.

how was it? I'm having a hard time imagining how this material would translate live.

I'd seen Cortney before, at a small club, and she was really effective, playing her acoustic and Omnichord, and singing her songs. The Exit/In's sound system was wack Sat. nite--all bass, no snare drum, her voice lost amid the haze, so it didn't come across too well. However, she's fantastic, one powerful singer, and so the (brief) set was mainly her gettin' crazy and wailing over the repetitions of two guitars/bass/drums/keys w/ little subtlety. No "La La" melodicism on hand, and that's the stuff--like, actual songs; Cortney could easily be the Gal Costa of Nashville--I myself like the best, altho I pretty much love the EP and full-length she's done.

I'm a year late, but this is blowing my mind. I've listened to it ten times in a row.

I felt the same way. When I first got it, it had crazy replay value.

new track, palace from the upcoming album titled: Son and Moon - now on myspace:

Cortney Tidwell
http://www.myspace.com/cortneytidwell

just listening to DLSKUTU for the first time...fantastic album!

OMG last half of "Palace"

just saw her do an amazing set at Basement in Nashville--in incredible swooping voice, band creating truly multi-layered settings that moved in sections, atmospheric yet really grounded. something else.

'boys' has leaked, astonishing. really very beautiful.

!!!
so.psyched

bring it

this album is fucking great. watusi sounds like something portishead would have made if they had gone for a summer vibe. the producer on this deserves props

Mark Nevers again?

this new stuff is incredible

Come on, Bjork fans!

keep bumping this thread so i remember to listen to this album at some point!

ya i need to check this album out. and many others.

C'mon, everyone, start off w/ that second one, "Watussi"

This really is great.

not really hearing much of a song in those two clips to be honest. heard this on the radio today also, minus the maddeningly busy video... still not convinced.

not very Björk-y either, although recently, feh. That's probably for the best.

17 Horses reminds me of PJ Harvey rather than Bjork. Something about the way she only uses a very small number of notes and really bellows them out against those massive incessant chords.

Watusi already sounds a bit like its own Jacques Lu Cont or Alan Braxe remix. This stuff is really great - I'd always assumed Cortney Tidwell is normal unremixed form was a lot more folky than this. Maybe I should listen to the album.

is this thing out now, or just leaked?

the track this thread is about remains A+, I stick it on my iPod pretty often still. Those other youtubes getting posted are pretty boring in comparison.

this album is pretty incredible.

yeah - listened to it late the other night and it definitely hit the spot

Too inextricably pulled in by the portentous loveliness of "Oh Suicide" to pay attention to the rest of the album yet. Haha.

The new album is so, so lovely. Think Oslo is my favourite so far, especially the last minute or so.

whole album is streaming: http://www.cityslang.com/ecards/CortneyTidwell/CortneyTidwell_en/swf/

"So We Sing" and "Oh, Suicide" are my favorites right now. But it changes every couple days.

I think because they're the same song!

This album is great. The whole damn thing. Love "Watusii" but I think "Son and Moon" is my favorite at the moment.

I understand the Bjork comparisons on "Son and Moon" -- it reminds me of "Cocoon."

played a house show with cortney tidwell last summer, she is kind of weird and shy but holy shit she can sing, the new album is fucking fantastic

Pretty sure you could stick 'Sun and Moon' on Vespertine and no one would notice.

i still listen to this all the time, it's so good

just want to point out that his remix of "hazel" and "touch too much" are really good.

God the album sounds amazing now autumn has set in properly.

the remix this thread was started in aid of has just been put out again, on R&S

Daphni and Simon Baker mixes of 'Watusii' are pretty nice

just discovered her. love it!

Through Immer 3?

The Immer 3 mix of this is different from the old Ewan Pearson mixes, right?

totally through immer 3

yes it is. ("objects in space remix" then, "all this has happened before version" now)
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Love love love the Immer 3 version of this. Don't think I ever heard the earlier remix, although I always intended to one day. How different are they?

hmmm...she's done a record with kurt wagner, i'd rather it was just her but pretty. seems like it is more his thing than hers.

ah, it is all covers.

very pretty. her voice sparkles.

I want a new album soon. It's been too long.

Agreed - Boys is such a great Sunday afternoon chilling-out-and-recovering listen.

Their album's ok at but the Ewan Pearson re-edit of A.M. is rather special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130vxdH0D8U

I want a new album soon. It's been too long.

― van smack, Sunday, 22 January 2012 15:37 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she's back!

http://www.nashvillescene.com/music/nashville-cream/article/20970336/cortney-tidwell-previews-forthcoming-clandestine-fresh-tracks

'The Eagle Flies With My Silent Prayer' is probably the best song ever. gonna be so bitter and angry if this album gets ignored

Really liked Don't Let Stars, hadnt really thought of her since but ready...

Boys is one of those albums that you think you like, but when you put it on you realise it's actually incredible. I'm really excited to hear this new one.

Forgot how much I love that Ewan Pearson remix. Very happily ordered a mint copy on discogs for like 4 euros shipped just now. :)

welp, this turned out to be a longer rollout than I'd anticipated. I wonder if it will ever be released