The Glow Of The 80s, by Nes Advantage

The Glow Of The 80s

by Nes Advantage

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1.	Concrete Floors Push Up 02:15	buy track
2.	Piano Song #3 02:04	buy track
3.	When Bad Things Happen 03:10	buy track
4.	And The Trees Don't Mind (Parts I & II) 04:51	buy track
5.	Encounter At Farpoint 04:00	buy track
6.	Sleep At Night 04:20	buy track
7.	Nuclear Bomb In London Dream 05:09	buy track
8.	I've Lived In This Town All My Life 04:23	buy track
9.	Fugazi-esques 03:48	buy track
10.	A Day In The Life Of The Soviet Union 04:35	buy track

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Nes Advantage's second album was conjured out of virtually nothing, since it was believed that the debut LP 'The Sounds Of Heart Failure' and its accompanying EP 'Communist Pleasures' had hoovered up all the recordings made by the duo.

However, the band had in fact conducted several sessions since the 2003 - 4 period that yielded most of their work. In 2005, they played an ambient, unrehearsed 30 minute set for an Ex Libris New Year's Eve party held at Colerabbey Studios, a night also notable for the introduction of Aaron McMullan to the record label's attention. In 2006, they met to record via computer for the first time, during an overdub session for the 'Yonder? Calliope!' record. At some point there was also a session that saw Ryan and Andrew eschew their traditional tools of guitar and piano, in favour of drums and bass respectively. In 2013, a thorough trawl through old hard disks stored at Colerabbey elicited forgotten archive material tracked in 2003, that had only seen the light of day via CD-Rs shared with close friends of the group.

From these varied sources, a second record was fashioned, using some judicious editing of the master tapes. The results are somewhat more skeletal compared to the 'Heart Failure' material, along with the introduction of newer instruments that occupied the Colerabbey facility at the time, such as a banjo finger piano, glockenspiel and a brief cameo on brass from My Attorney's Andy Warmington. The listener can also hear clues to the more processed sounds that would feature in Ryan's later solo work, and Andrew's future production methods.

Despite all this, 'Glow' still sees the band's core ethic of playing largely improvised material, recorded in one take, with a bent towards the strange and the haunted, remaining in full effect.

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Nes Advantage are:

Ryan H. Fleming - electric guitars, acoustic guitars, banjo, drums, piano, sampler, pedals, glockenspiel, cymbals, boxes

Andrew Gardiner - vocals, lyrics, piano, synths, electric guitar, Kaoss Pad, percussion, drum machines, bass, programming, editing, finger piano

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Andy Warmington plays trumpet on track 3

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Written & Performed by Nes Advantage

Produced by Andrew Gardiner ≈ www.unimbued.com

Recorded at Colerabbey Studios, 2003 - 2013

Tracks 3 & 8 were recorded live in front of a studio audience on Saturday 31st December 2005

Track 10 was made previously available on 'This Is Closure' ≈ exlibrisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-closure

Released digitally unto a grey Donegal sky on Sunday 1st September 2013.

© 2013 Ex Libris Records Ltd ≈ www.exlibrisrecords.com

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Nes Advantage Portrush, UK

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