''Hold Everything Dear'' is a 2011 album from

Cindytalk Cindytalk is an experimental music project, founded in 1982. Cindytalk operated as a group for many years, but more recently has been a solo project by Cinder (previously known as Gordon Sharp), a Scottish performer and the only constant member ...

released by

Editions Mego Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The label has been superseded by a new company, Editions Mego, which was set up both to keep Mego albums in print and to issue new albums, run by Peter ...

, catalogue number eMEGO 122. All tracks were written and recorded by

Cindy Sharp Cinder (previously known as Gordon Sharp; born 1961 in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland), sometimes known as Cinder Sharp, is a Scottish singer, musician and record producer. She has led several music projects since 1976, the most significant an ...

and Matt Kinnison, 2006-11.

Description

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Editions Mego website
"Hold Everything Dear is the third installment in the new Cindytalk sound which started with 2007’s The Crackle of My Soul, and then last years Up Here in The Clouds. It is the first in the trilogy to feature musicians other than Cindy Sharp namely the late Matt Kinnison, to whom the album is dedicated. Inspired by the John Berger book of the same name, this latest release is whole new set of parameters which push the sound on the previous two works to an extreme point of abstraction, and in some places near silent passages and haunted melodic segments. And what a mysterious journey this ends up being with increased use of piano and found/field recordings giving all the tracks a blurry soundtrack appeal to the point where the definitions between the tracks and are no longer clearly defined. It harks back to the odder parts of

In This World ''In This World'' is a 2002 British docudrama directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film follows two young Afghan refugees, Jamal Udin Torabi and Enayatullah, as they leave a refugee camp in Pakistan for a better life in London. Since their jour ...

and The Wind Is Strong... albums from the early 1990s." Reviews of the album include Dusted Magazine and PopMatters.PopMatters Review
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Track listing

# How Soon Now... (5:01) # On the Tip of My Tongue (1:21) # In Dust to Delight (6:38) # Fly Away Over Here (9:14) # Waking the Snow (1:25) # From Rokko-San (6:01) # Hanging in the Air (8:27) # Fallen Obi (1:42) # Those That Tremble As If They Were Mad (6:13) # Floating Clouds (8:47) # I See You Uncovered (1:42) # ...Until We Disappear (7:29)

Versions

* LP 2011 Editions Mego * CD 2011 Editions Mego

References

External links

Official Cindytalk Website

"Of ghosts and buildings", Cindytalk blog

Cindytalk Myspace page

Discogs entry for Cindytalk

Editions Mego website, Cindytalk page
{{Authority control 2011 albums Cindytalk albums