Remember Remember - Remember Remember
A quite wonderful debut record...
My wife and I are milling about the house on a Sunday morning, ‘Remember Remember’ on the stereo. I find myself dancing to a track, aptly titled ‘The Dancing’, oblivious for minutes of the fact that the wife is doing the exact same thing in another room. When we both wander into the living room to find ourselves mirroring each other, we laugh and proceed make tea (me) and coffee (her). She thinks nothing more of the synchronised spontaneity; I, though, dwell upon it, concluding such a happening must be the result of hearing a quite wonderful record.
Of course, first impressions can often be misleading – while ‘Remember Remember’ is indeed a fine debut album, its opener proper isn’t wholly representative of what follows. While ‘The Dancing’ clicks and clacks like Errors, much of this swoons and sweeps like the more-gorgeous moments of Mice Parade; it flutters its eyelids and has you blushing with ease, the romantic overtones taking hold by the time ‘Fountain’ unwinds itself fully, cyclical guitar patterns hypnotising the listener into a sweet submission. As the track bleeds into the chimes of ‘Mountain’, another mood is manifested, further emotions evoked. Here, delicate instrumentation builds to a fuzzy electro stomp, like The Knife at their most disco-friendly.
Ostensibly the solo project of ex-Multiplies member Graeme Ronald, Remember Remember are a multi-headed on-record beast, with contributors many aiding the production of these ten tracks. Joan Sweeney’s sublime violin work paints pieces with a tangible texture missing on many electro albums, while fellow ex-Multiplies member (and present Errors drummer) James Hamilton adds percussive urgency where required. Even Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite gets in on the action, credited as contributing handclaps.
At its most serene it’s easy to draw parallels between Ronald’s work and that of renowned score composers – there’s a cinematic lusciousness and brilliant luminescence to atmospheric arrangements like ‘The Swimming’ and ‘Imagining Things (ii)’; but even when stripped back to bare bones, as on that initially impacting ‘The Dancing’, there’s a considerable depth to ‘Remember Remember’ that keeps its audience curious to delve further into its layers, shifting the sediment to reveal more delights. For all its eccentricities – recordings of fizzing Irn Bru, of ‘instruments’ including Wind-up Monkey and Sellotape Dispenser – there’s a very accessible heart to this album, one that any man or woman can relate to, and enjoy.
You might dance – you certainly will to begin with – but you might also end the experience crying, just a little. ‘Remember Remember’ is that kind of album – to dive into cliché it is quite the journey, a tale told not by words but by emotions ingrained in instrumentation beautifully developed and perfectly executed. Pigeonhole it as post-rock and you sell its charms short; as modern classical and you can alienate potential admirers. So just take this away with you: ‘Remember Remember’ is one of the most wonderful records you’ll hear in 2008. Or 2009, for that matter.
And if you were really paying attention, you’d have got that message some 400 words ago.
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Read Graeme Ronald's track-by-track guide to 'Remember Remember' HERE.
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Another great release on
Another great release on Rock Action! Anyone seen them live? Strange stuff, but engaging.
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its absolutely great ! its a master piece ! we will surely REMEMBER it .
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Incredible stuff guys, its seriously a killer one, rock on!!
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This post had me laughing
This post had me laughing picturing you and your wife dancing while each making tea and coffee! I actually haven't heard this record but definitely going to check it out now.
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Remember Remember`s live shows are a thing to behold. Based around continuous loops of various, often organic sounds, Graham Ronald captures your attention, creating meandering aural soundscapes that seem to last for blissful hours at a time.
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Remember, remember the fifth of November,
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Words of "Remember Remember" refer to Guy Fawkes with origins in 17th century English history. On the 5th November 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with several dozen barrels of gunpowder.
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He has been featured in films, literature, and music, and several geographical locations have been named after him, including the Isla Guy Fawkes in the Galápagos Islands and Guy Fawkes River in Australia. The word "guy", meaning "man" or "person", derives ultimately from his name.
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Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night, is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of November. It celebrates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of the 5 November, 1605, in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, were alleged to be attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament, in London, England.
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The following year in 1606 it became an annual custom for the King and Parliament to commission a sermon to commemorate the event. Lancelot Andrewes delivered the first of many Gunpowder Plot Sermons. This practice, together with the nursery rhyme, ensured that this crime would never be forgotten! Hence the words " Remember , remember the 5th of November" The poem is sometimes referred to as 'Please to remember the fifth of November'.
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A secret plan to overthrow the king. A mercenary named Guy Fawkes returning from war abroad. Thirty six barrels of gunpowder.
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The pigeonhole principle often arises in computer science. For example, collisions are inevitable in a hash table because the number of possible keys exceeds the number of indices in the array. No hashing algorithm, no matter how clever, can avoid these collisions. This principle also proves that any general-purpose loss less compression algorithm that makes at least one input file smaller will make some other input file larger. (Otherwise, two files would be compressed to the same smaller file and restoring them would be ambiguous.)
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The pigeonhole principle often arises in computer science. For example, collisions are inevitable in a hash table because the number of possible keys exceeds the number of indices in the array. No hashing algorithm, no matter how clever, can avoid these collisions. This principle also proves that any general-purpose loss less compression algorithm that makes at least one input file smaller will make some other input file larger. (Otherwise, two files would be compressed to the same smaller file and restoring them would be ambiguous.)
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Several traditional rhymes have accompanied the festivities. Sometimes 'God Save the king' can be replaced by 'God save the Queen' depending on who is on the throne. The first line of the rhyme is set in an iambic foot. Lulling the reader, however there are two instances during the first line when the stressed syllable in the iamb has been traded for a unstressed syllable.
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It is primarily marked in the United Kingdom where it was compulsory, by fiat, until 1859, to celebrate the deliverance of the King of England; but, it is also celebrated in former British colonies including New Zealand, Newfoundland, and parts of the British Caribbean.
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This is a genuinely stunning achievement and without a doubt one of the strongest débuts of 2008. I know we're all very excited about 2009 but you'll have to trust me here: this is one 2008 release worth going back for.
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It is primarily marked in
It is primarily marked in the United Kingdom where it was compulsory, by fiat, until 1859, to celebrate the deliverance of the King of England
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Glasgow act Remember Remember, essentially the solo project of former Multiplies and Royal We member Graeme Ronald, will release a self-titled debut album in November through the Rock Action label.
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Compared to Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Animal Collective and even Michel Gondry, Ronald has received acclaim for his unique live shows where everything from hand-claps to Irn Bru are sampled, looped and blended into the performance.
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What I? should write in my journal has just become easier. I can't wait for October conference to once again hear from and be inspired by our leaders; to remember & to do better.
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Has anyone seen them live? I
Has anyone seen them live? I would love to see pictures from one of there shows I had a friend go awhile ago and say they put on an awesome performance. There never around my area though.
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He noted that music has an "excellent power ...to expel many other diseases" and he called it "a sovereign remedy against despair and melancholy".
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