Future Loop Foundation Memories From A Fading Room
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
Music Reviews Artist: Future Loop FoundationTitle: Memories From a Fading RoomWebsite: http://www.futureloopfoundation.com/
  “Memories From a Fading Room” is the fifth album to come from Mark Barrott, better known as the Future Loop Foundation. It combines vocal recordings of interviews with his northern family in the seventies and chilled out electronic orchestration. In trying to create a successful contemporary album, and also a personal and historical document of a bygone age, Barrott is only partially successful. While the album does have its moments, particularly on “Everything As It Should Be” and “Sunshine Philosophy“, the ultimate failing of the recording is that the vocal interviews are often simply not interesting enough to serve as an historical document nor to inspire great music.
David Holmes’ album “Lets Get Killed“, which mixes interviews of the varied characters of New York City’s streets with equally varied electronic sounds may well have served as inspiration to Barott but sadly he fails to achieve a meaningful connection between music and vocals.
There are exceptions to that rule however as “Everything As It Should Be” mixes a story of the blitz with an appropriate acoustic accompaniment. “Sunshine Philosophy“, which recalls another Holmes’ track, “69 Police“, opts for a different tactic as the quality of music overshadows the interviews, making them irrelevant.
Barrott’s own description of the album as the kind ‘that you could find for sale in the dusty corner of the type of junk shop that Bagpuss would inhabit’ serves as an apt description. “Memories From a Fading Room” is interesting as a musical oddity and some of the interviews with family members are diverting but it seems destined to remain in some dusty corner as not enough of the tracks are of a calibre that would demand repeat listening.
Definitely worth a listen but unlikely to remain in your CD player for very long.
Words By: Jack Kent & Joe Kent
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