Whirlaway (album)

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Whirlaway
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Studio album by Tadpoles
Released 1999
Recorded 1998-1999
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length1:10:32
Label Bakery Records and Camera Obscura Records
Producer Tadpoles
Tadpoles chronology
Smoke Ghost
(1998)
Whirlaway
(1999)
Use With Headphones Late At Night (Best of 1990-2000)
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Whirlaway (1999) is the fourth and final full-length studio album released on CD by Tadpoles and is the first Tadpoles' album to be released by a label other than the band's own Bakery Records. Australian independent label, Camera Obscura Records, licensed and released the album worldwide. As a promotion in 1999, an edited MP3 version of the song "Whirlaway" was given away free from by Camera Obscura Records through their website. Additionally, this was the first studio album by Tadpoles not produced by Mark Kramer (Shimmy Disc) at Noise New Jersey, although Mark Kramer did record the album's final track, Horse and Buggy at New York City's Knitting Factory. The album was recorded by Pete Drivere at Ampreon Recorder in Youngstown, Ohio and features a cover version of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes classic, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere.

Tadpoles (band)

Tadpoles are an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1990 in New York City by Todd Parker (guitars/vocals), Michael Kite Audino (drums) and Josh Bracken (bass.) In 1992, Nick Kramer (guitars/vocals), David Max (bass) and Andrew Jackson (guitars) of the fledgling Manhattan group, Hit, joined the Tadpoles after putting Hit on hiatus.

Shimmy Disc was an influential New York City-based independent record label founded in 1987 by Mark Kramer. Before it was sold to the Knitting Factory, it was responsible for providing a mass audience for acts including Bongwater, Daniel Johnston, Fly Ashtray, Galaxie 500, King Missile, Boredoms, Ruins, Ween, Gwar, The Semibeings, When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water and Uncle Wiggly. The label also released compilations albums such as "Rutles Highway Revisited ", 1990, which featured various artists from the label, and also introduced new artists like Paleface.

Knitting Factory music venue

The Knitting Factory is a nightclub that was opened in New York City and that featured eclectic music and entertainment. After opening in 1987, various other locations were opened in the United States.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Frances The Dancer" (Max/Parker) – 5:04
  2. "Lyman Bostock" (Kramer/Max) – 5:01
  3. "Crash Of The Bug" (Parker/Max) – 7:53
  4. "Jimmy Colored Glasses" (Parker) – 5:38
  5. "Whirlaway" (Kramer/Parker/Max)) – 9:24
  6. "Dusty Baker (Parker)" – 3:26
  7. "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (Dylan) – 5:46
  8. "Smile If You've Crossed Over" (Max/Boyette) – 8:06
  9. "Sunrise Ocean Bender" (Parker) – 6:51
  10. "Horse and Buggy" (Boyette/Max/Kramer/Parker) – 13:09

Personnel

Production

Whirlaway was engineered and mixed by Pete Drivere at Ampreon Recorder in Youngstown, Ohio in 1998 and 1999. Additional overdubs and mixes were done at Jolly Roger Studio in Hoboken, NJ by Gene Holder (the dB's). Album artwork and design was created by Ann Manca. Mastered by Todd Parker at dbs digital in Hoboken, NJ.

The dB's are an American pop rock group, who first came to prominence in the early 1980s.

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