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to veer away from the more lo fidelity approaches I had taken previously and try my hand at something a little more sophisticated, but it was really a case of seeing how it progressed as we (myself and John Murphy) went along.I always have grandiose arrangements playing in my head when recording but itâs difficult to achieve when Iâm recording alone with the software I have and in my particular surroundings. I knew I couldnât afford an orchestra! But I sort of fell in love with the synthetic sound I was getting from the strings that I was playing on various synths or keyboards. They took on their own life and charm the more time I spent with them so I was almost happy that we didnât have the luxury of real strings in the end. With vocals, itâs always difficult to tell myself when to stop because itâs the most enjoyable element of the recording process for me so I tend to overboard and then have to strip back. Or not in most cases." A reviewer writes "If Kimâs debut
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strings and synthesiser orchestras. When asked for her influences in an interview, she cites, "When asked for specifics, it doesnât take much to get Kimâs currents of knowledge flowing. She names
Harmony Korine, David Lynch and John Carpenter as her âall-time favoriteâ directors that helped inform her latest album, Hour of the Ox, released last September. When I acknowledge my familiarity with Korineâs Kids, she shows that her undercurrents run deeper, pronouncing âGummo and Julian Donkey Boyâ her primary influences from Korine.Regarding the soundtrack composition, Kim cites Lynne Ramsayâs You Were Never Really Here, Jonathan Glazerâs Under the Skin and pronounces herself a âhuge fanâ of Mica Levy, specifically the Jackie soundtrack. In terms of the former: âI took the string element from the Under the Skin soundtrack where there were a lot of bending strings. They sound like raining, and I got into the bending of strings.â
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Terry Cullen, former drummer with Irish Band Ten Speed Racer and the two started the band Dae Kim. Their debut album 'Matador' was released in
November 2005. Their music has been described as "a collection of sounds falling somewhere between the lush dramatics of low, galaxy 500 and the layered guitar genius of slowdive and my bloody valentine, mellow slow building walls of noise interspersed with some very sultry vocals and acoustic tracks".
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was recorded with long time friend, band mate and well known Irish producer John 'Spud' Murphy after she moved to Dublin in
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is filled with the kind of incandescent light that can make your world a brighter place. All 20 songs are beguiling hymns of ghostly provenance. There's a consistency of temperature and tone that only the very best records possess. It's an emotional landscape with a unique atmosphere."
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