Yellow 6/Tin Foil Star - Shell Whiskey 11 7"
(Jonathon Whiskey)
The Jonathan Whiskey split 7" series has been an incredibly wonderful series. It has
included a lot of great bands including Windy & Carl, Electroscope, Tristeza, Hood,
Billy Mahonie, Chicks on Speed, Rothko, and many others. The Jonathan Whiskey 7"s are
on extremely thick vinyl with hand made covers, and there are only 250 ever printed.
The Tin Foil Star song, "Series 2", is actually a remixed / reworked / rewritten
version of a Yellow 6 song which originally appeared on the Figure 4: The Yellow
Number Six 7". Tin Foil Star took quite a bit of license when reworking this song,
and it's very enjoyable to hear the song converted from guitar to keyboards. The
remix begins with bubbling keyboard loops and gains, layers of atmosphere, and
reverbed swells until a lightly treated keyboard takes the helm and leads the song
into a chorusy melody.
This remix is an uncommon thing because it takes a chance by differing quite a bit
from the original. The result is that while it isn't necessarily an improvement over
the original, it's certainly an equally interesting approach.
Yellow 6 is a UK band that I have only recently become aware of. I heard their
beautiful Overtone album about 6 months ago and I was so amazed enough by it that I
rushed out an bough a copy of it and every other release I could get my
hands on.
The Yellow 6 side of the 7" features a song titled "Expressway427." The song starts
with swirling keyboard drones, what sounds like ebowed guitar drones, smoothly picked
and repeated guitar melodies, and delayed bass guitar following and accentuating the
guitar's root notes for each pattern.
After a few measures, tasteful, understated, and slow moving electronic drums come in,
and the bass guitar changes and moves into a quicker moving bass melody, laying down
a new foundation for the song. A lead guitar line comes in over the top of the bass
and drums, soaring and falling, saturated with delay and other effects. As the song
fades back into the more ambient beginning, the lead guitar line dissolves into the
mix of keyboard and guitar drones.
With the great songs, the great hand-made packaging, and the wonderfully thick vinyl,
this is a 7" worth hunting down... and you better hurry since they are limited to 250.
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