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NEW CANTALOUPE EP At the risk of sounding like a professional Nottinghamite, I recently asked via social networking who the cities public thought "the King or Queen of Nottingham," was. For me, the "King of Nottingham," is easily Andrew Knight, the brains behind the consistently innovative Hello Thor label, which represents Fists, Cantaloupe and Anxieteam. (No words on Queen yet…) The labels latest release, the new Cantaloupe EP, arrives with a
lot of excitement attached to it, and rightly so. Lead track "Teapot
Ahoy," manages to be innovative, but also has its own kind of
nostalgia - in the way it takes us back to a time when synth music
was pure, undiluted. Its minimal instrumentalism draws the listener
in with a kind of clean aural sparkle, further enhanced by the Clem
Stanation-directed video, a riot of charm and colour which flows with
the sound of the song and blends, in Knights own words, "the
best of Jim Henson. Cantaloupe - Teapot from Clem Stamation on Vimeo.
http://cantaloupemusic.blogspot.co.uk/ Amy Britton |
