Cinder (album)

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Cinder
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Studio album by
Dirty Three
Released11 October 2005
RecordedFebruary 2005
Genre Post-rock, folk rock
Length70:00
Label Touch and Go Records
Producer Dirty Three
Dirty Three chronology
She Has No Strings Apollo
(2003)		Cinder
(2005)		 Toward the Low Sun
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 6.7/10 [3]

Cinder is the seventh major album by Australian trio, Dirty Three. Conceived in the summer of 2005 on Phillip Island, in South Eastern Australia, the songs are shorter, more trimmed down and classic in composition than usual Dirty Three output.

Dirty Three band

Dirty Three is an Australian instrumental rock band, consisting of Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White (drums), which formed in 1992. Their 1996 album Horse Stories was voted by Rolling Stone as one of the top three albums of the year. Two of their albums have peaked into the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Ocean Songs (1998) and Toward the Low Sun (2012). During their career they have spent much of their time overseas when not performing together. Turner is based in Melbourne, White lives in New York, and Ellis in Paris. Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane described them as providing a "rumbling, dynamic sound incorporated open-ended, improvisational, electric rock ... minus the jazz-rock histrionics". In October 2010, Ocean Songs was listed in the book 100 Best Australian Albums.

Contents

Recorded in just 10 days, Cinder's 19 tracks includes violin, drums, mandolin, bouzouki, organ, piano, acoustic guitar, bagpipes, and, rarely for a Dirty Three album, vocals.

Chan Marshall also lends her talents to the album with some vocals, as well as co-writing one of the songs.

Cover art by guitarist Mick Turner.

Track listing

All tracks by Dirty Three except where noted.

  1. "Ever Since" – 4:48
  2. "She Passed Through" – 3:26
  3. "Amy" – 2:48
  4. "Sad Jexy" – 3:23
  5. "Cinders" – 3:02
  6. "Doris" – 3:26
  7. "Flutter" – 6:36
  8. "The Zither Player" (Félix Lajkó)– 5:01
  9. "It Happened" – 2:14
  10. "Great Waves" – 3:28 (vocals by Chan Marshall)
  11. "Dream Evie" – 2:43
  12. "Too Soon, Too Late" – 3:29
  13. "This Night" – 3:56
  14. "Rain On" – 3:39
  15. "Ember" – 2:38
  16. "Michèle" – 3:23
  17. "Feral" – 4:10 (vocals by Sally Timms of The Mekons)
  18. "Last Dance" – 4:16
  19. "In Fall" – 3:54

Japanese bonus tracks

  1. "June's A Calling" – 1:50
  2. "Lisa's Mountain" – 2:57

Personnel

Warren Ellis is an Australian-French musician and composer. He is a member of several groups: Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. He has also composed film scores with Nick Cave. Ellis plays violin, piano, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, tenor guitar, and viola. Ellis has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1994.

Bouzouki Greek string instrumnet

The bouzouki is a musical instrument popular in Greece that was brought there in the 1900s by Greek immigrants from Turkey, and quickly became the central instrument to the rebetiko genre and its music branches. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the bouzouki has a flat front, usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but pitched lower. There are two main types of bouzouki: the trichordo (three-course) has three pairs of strings and the tetrachordo (four-course) has four pairs of strings.

Sally Timms musician

Sally Timms is an English singer and lyricist. Timms is best known for her long involvement with The Mekons whom she joined in 1985.

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References

  1. ↑ "Cinder by Dirty Three" . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Jurek, Thom. Cinder at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "Dirty Three: Cinder Album Review – Pitchfork" . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
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