Division S ::: I Was Thinking

 

Division S ‎::: Something to Drink 6

Label: Old Europa Cafe ‎– OECD 210
Format: CD, Album, Digipack
Country: Italy
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Minimal, Experimental

Tracklist:
1 Untitled
2 Untitled
3 Untitled
4 Untitled
5 Untitled
6 Untitled
7 Untitled
8 Untitled
9 Untitled

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Division S / Hotel de Prusse ::: Siloah

Great split.  Division S was always a favorite for me so I can only but recommend you download this straight away.

Tracklist
1 Division S - I
2 Division S - II
3 Division S - III
4 Division S - IV
5 Division S - V
6 Hotel de Prusse - VI
7 Hotel de Prusse - VII
8 Hotel de Prusse - VIII
9 Hotel de Prusse - IX
10 Hotel de Prusse - X

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Division S ::: Something to Drink 5

The fifth chapter in the “Something to Drink” saga.  A new small treasure of minimal Noir-Cabaret with Mediterranean sounds, with Rock’n’Western saloon melodies, with vintage fashioned hits dealing with “60’s like” sounds.
Songs to be listened while drinking a good Italian red wine and smoking an unfiltered cigarette.
Songs for nostalgic rainy days and for summer sunset light.
Songs for lovers and suffering broken hearts.
Songs for drunken and dandy urban cow-boys & cow-girls.
“Something to Drink V” continues where the last album ended, from the last drink, from the last glass of wine…
“Alla Salute !”

Tracklist :
01. the ballad of the left ear (5:20)
02. the morning light (4:05)
03. materially loser (3:45)
04. december rain (2:32)
05. no control (4:17)
06. and just the people out (2:38)
07. further knowledge (3:59)
08. teaching mistakes (4:17)
09. scrambled eggs (2:59)
10. the mountain and the fish (1:34)
11. forget all (1:40)
12. sweet mary (2:16)
13. once again (7:30)
14. the end (2:14)

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Division S ::: Something to Drink 4

The sound of Division S is an eclectic melange of retro styles, involving everything from camp 30s dance and film music through doo-wop and noir jazz to 60s bubblegum pop and psychedelia. They have elements in common with the ‘industrial nostalgia’ of Horologium, and they share a certain louche, Latin, sleazy-listening sensibility with such artists as Ô Paradis, Novy Svet and Spiritual Front, but really, Division S aren’t quite like anyone else. If you enjoy Serge Gainsbourg, Bain Wolfkind’s solo work, or the Spell album by Boyd Rice and Rose McDowall, then it’s likely that your tolerance for irony and campness is sufficiently well developed to appreciate the aesthetic pose of Division S.

Something To Drink 4 involves a lot of cocktail-lounge jazz – the plucked double bass and cymbal work of ‘Ill’ Ego’, accompanying a lugubrious Nick Cave-like vocal (it also sounds something like the stuff Sol Invictus have been producing lately); the brushed drums of ‘Lonely Day’; the tinkling electric piano and soft brass of ‘Seven’ (which is, rather counter-intuitively, the eighth song); the vibraphone and walking bossa nova bass line of the loungecore instrumental ‘Soft Morning’ (this song could easily pass for Stereolab). But there are many other musical modes in evidence here – the shoegazing, ethereal pop, spaced out over dry snare-drum rolls, of ‘Sweet Fly’, the dementedly looped orchestral strings of ‘Lament For The Blind’, the rockabilly rimshots, bottleneck guitar and remote, muffled vocals of ‘Lying Charge’, the last-dance-of-the-night millennial psychedelia of ‘Trippin’’, but for me, the real highpoint of the album is to be found in the strung-out, stripped-back drawl and flanged guitar of ‘So Real Illusions’. It’s at this point that not even knowing the name of the vocalist gets a bit frustrating – this guy is really good. All the songs on Something To Drink 4 are originals, with the exception of ‘Another Time’ which is a cover of Pearls Before Swine song – a soft, Byrds-like pop song featuring acoustic guitar and female backing vocals. Something To Drink 4 manages to pack an awful lot into its 44 minutes duration. Compared to its predecessor – yes, it’s called Something To Drink 3 – this album seems to make greater use of rock and pop styles, rather than the nostalgic relics of earlier epochs, but Division S are nothing if not idiosyncratic and unpredictable.

This latest excursion into the sardonic, bloodshot-eyed world of Division S is available in a limited edition of 300 copies, in a jewel case with an insert containing very little information beyond the track titles.

Tracklist
01 A' Chanter
02 Another Time
03 Ill' Ego
04 Lament For The Blind
05 Lonely Day
06 Lying Charge
07 Routine Break
08 Seven
09 So Real Illusions
10 Soft Morning
11 Still Waiting
12 Sweet Fly
13 Trippin'

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Division S ::: Something to Drink 3

"Something to drink 3" is the follow up to the very limited and sadly sold out "Something to drink 2" …a pattern emerges…also on the Bunkier Productions label. If you have never heard "Something to drink 2" mores the pity. Being released in just 50 copies I doubt many people have heard it (don't worry I have it, I will share it soon). Life and record labels can be cruel.

"Something to drink 3" is eleven songs about hate / love / fun / sadness done in a mixture of folk / cabaret / doo wop / and ‘pop’ music. I say ‘pop’ because some of the simple structured tunes are hum able in that ‘stick in your head’ way that the best memorable ‘pop’ records manage. The singer occasionally sounds like an up-market Nick Cave exorcised of all his demons. Sometimes he sounds like your drunken uncle you meet at family weddings and wish to disown. Did I mention the sleazy sounding Italian. He’s here as well. Along with other disparate continental comrades crossing many boundaries but belonging to none in particular. The music will make you smile. Laugh even. But you won’t know why. You’ll sigh with recognition at some of the tales of heartbreaking woe being drunkenly poured out. Then puzzle as you struggle to make the words out to others. Through it all though you’ll h ave a bloody great time. A night on the piss you enjoyed and can actually remember.

"Something to drink 3" is that type of record that awakens the realisation as to why you got into music in the first place. It playfully tugs at the heart. An emotional roller coaster of simplified genius. Music so inoffensive you could play it in front of your mother and she would approve - yet distinctive enough to be classed as different and unusual. I’ll drink to that. Cheers.

I really cannot recommend this recording highly enough.  Pure art!

Tracklist:
01. Untitled #1
02. Bleeding
03. Blue Canary
04. Dancing In The Silence Of The Street
05. Untitled #2
06. Dead End
07. All That Remains
08. Stolen Youth
09. Out
10. Tears
11. Vino Rosso

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Division S ::: Something to Drink 2

Finally I managed to get a copy of this rare "Division S" album previously out on Bunkier Productions in 2004.
This is a second print in a very short run.
The sounds are drunk and smoky, a good definition should be "Mediterranean Noir Cabaret" ....
I would put this band easily in my top 5 of all time

"in Vino Veritas"

Tracklist :
1 Rome
2 Oh My God!
3 Op-Pop-A-Da
4 Tonight
5 She
6 Red Wine (Live)
7 PBS
8 Thoughts
9 Alone

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