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  • Rudi Zygadlo 'Melpomene / Arrows' - Cargo Records UK

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    Rudi Zygadlo 'Melpomene / Arrows'

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    Melopomene' is a ballad of astonishing quality. Named after a Greek Muse and taken from his forthcoming album 'Tragicomedies', it sees his vision in full flight. The song works a wonderful alchemy with acoustic instrumentation and dramatic suture-like edits with a gauzy side-compressed production, over which a tempered tale of love lost unravels among Rudi's fragile harmonies. The track builds to a middle passage, as piano and accordion duel with a beautiful grace in an almost neo-classical passage before the penny drops on the outro and the sadness hinted at before dramatically plays out in the song's chorus.

    'Arrows' on the B-side, plays out a near-death scenario over tense, repetitive synth stabs with claps, melody and harmonies that recall Frank Zappa's acid doo-wop, before the track breaks and fades out with the strains of a nervous string quartet.

    'Melpomene' is just a taste from Rudi Zygadlo's forthcoming album 'Tragicomedies' and it has already had airplay on Radio 1 and comes with an utterly gorgeous video by respected photographer and artist Nick Rutter.
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  • Rudi Zygadlo 'Great Wester Laymen' - Cargo Records UK

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    Rudi Zygadlo 'Great Wester Laymen'

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    Rudi Zygadlo 'Great Wester Laymen'

    £14.99

    Prepare your ears and adjust your brain for some of the most inventive modern pop you’ll hear all year, with Rudi Zygadlo’s debut ‘Great Western Laymen’.

    Rudi Zygadlo makes pop music like no-one else, taking the fundamentals of dubstep in a direction that is as unexpected as it is unique, he’s created an amalgamation of pop song writing with a contemporary electronic rewiring which is heavy with influences as wide as Frank Zappa, John Carpenter, Eastern European Classical music and contemporary US indie. Working like a disciplined artist, Rudi’s music squeezes the most out of what he’s got, working with a restricted palette of sounds, using no plug-ins, but layering on live instruments to give the music an added depth, and the results are astounding.

    Growing up in the Scottish countryside to artist parents without a T.V. but with access to plenty of music, young Rudi would fall asleep to Hendrix at the age of 8 and developed a liking for his father’s tastes in Classical music too. He started to perform music early on in his teens and joined groups, but always had a wish to create the music tucked away in his head.

    From the opener ‘Manuscripts Don’t Burn’ which starts by growing into shape, before Rudi’s double-tracked harmonies drop into place, to the laidback ‘Perfect Lust’ with it's lightly treated vocals and swooping bleeps, this is intriguing and lovely music; in 'Song Of Praise' harmonies take flight before they’re dragged down and bent out of shape while the graceful melodies are rendered bleeping and vibrating and casting 3D shapes. Check ‘Filthy Logic’s’ weird but comfortable mix of choir-like vocals and John Carpenter synths, or ‘Stop/Reject’s’ manipulated guitar solos over twilight synths and lush piano runs which recall 80’s Balearic pop. This is an unusually brave and modern album where dubstep's modes and fx and intelligent artful pop sit very comfortably together.

    The title of the album pays homage to his residence in Glasgow which sits between two churches on Great Western Road. There is a strong ecclesiastical theme which runs throughout the lyrics which gives the album yet another layer of intrigue. ‘Great Western Laymen’ is a future classic in the making.

    Side A:
    1. Manuscripts Don't Burn
    2. Something About Faith
    3. Layman's Requiem
    4. A Room To Sing
    Side B:
    1. Perfect Lust
    2. Filthy Logic
    3. Magic In The Afternoon
    Side C:
    1. Song Of Praise
    2. Stop/Reject
    3. Resealable Friendship
    Side D:
    1. Missa Per Brevis
    2. The Man In The Duck
    3. Opiate Of The Mass
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