| Recorded and mixed at Sound of Music, Richmond, Va.Labradford is a band from Richmond, Virginia.Biography
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2.Mark Nelson, and Carter Brown on keyboards.Black Emperor and their Festival Of Drifting series, which featured appearances from Pole, Matmos and Papa M as well.External links
Labradford at Brainwashed.It is hard to overstate the importance of Labradford.But very few have exerted the long term influence Labradford have and not many can claim to have inspired musicians across as broad a range of genres.Musicians like Kid 606 and Clouddead have stated in print that the recordings of Labradford inspired them to think beyond the structural limits of indie rock.After releasing a debut 7" single in the spring of 1993, Labradford recorded their debut album with Rob Christensen late nights at American University in Washington, DC.The sprawl of Carter Brown's organ and analog synths and Mark Nelson's faintly melodicized guitar lines had lots of precedents, but nobody on the American indie rock scene was anywhere close to Labradford's unique ambient songcraft and textural grit in late 1993.The band's first Chicago show, opening up for Archers of Loaf, was an indication of exactly where Labradford fit into the indie rock spectrum at the time.The addition of Donne's plangent bass lines (and eventually, his use of a sampler) broadened the band's sound.Europe with bands like Stereolab and Tortoise brought the trio more notice and the opportunity to releases singles on the Merge and Duophonic label.Labradford were recognized as one of the early entrants in a movement that nobody really wanted to put the energy into defining.At the time of their third album, analog synth fetishists, cocktail nation fritterers and the dabblers in drum and bass and beat science all swirled around like june bugs on a summer night.Labradford were creating work that looked beyond the enthusiasms of the moment."Clearly, it's easy to take the piss out of Labradford's still, slow music of tiny variations, and much harder to describe why their records are frequently such unnerving and lovely affairs...For sure, it's a ruthlessly disciplined record...John Mulvey, New Musical Express Jan.Labradford began a series of shows in the U.Dean Roberts, Bruce Gilbert, John Martyn, Matmos, Caspar Brotzmann and other musicians from different contexts and generations played together.The trio had to unite periodically to rehearse and record."An evolution of sound is a tricky proposition for most bands.As the years pass, many artists drift into some form of nostalgia or retreading of their past 'hits'.But even in their darkness Labradford are far from pretentious, another reason why they qualify as America's best underground band of the Nineties."The most recent Labradford album, Fixed::Context, was recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini engineering.Bobby Donne added a distinctive baritone guitar and beginning with the opening track "Twenty" a new and distinctive approach emphasizing austerity asserted itself.Although the members are now dispersed from their Richmond, VA point of origin, Labradford is, in our minds at kranky anyway, an ongoing project.Labradford was formed in Richmond, Virginia in 1992 and consists of Robert Donne, Carter Brown and Mark Nelson.Spacemen 3, Gate, Dead C.Labradford began to infuse their music with sampled and real time percussion traces, at times faintly delving into actual syncopation.Luxo So (Labradford's fifth) features contributions from a string quartet as well as a guest on dulcimer.Subtle blips of percussion and samples interweave through blurry guitars, bubbly electric piano and plangent organ and some gorgeous piano.Later that year, Labradford toured North America with godspeed you black emperor!It also featured Casey Rice behind the mixing boards.The new album found the trio stripping off the string trios of the last two albums and working with interlocking sound sources and modifiers; Carter Brown's vintage synthesizers, organs and electric piano; the distinctive Duane Eddy plays Satie guitar of Mark Nelson and Bobby Donne's four and six string basses.Labradford's quiet, transient ambient music seems predicated on two interrelated themes: the first, John Cage's revelatory notion, rearticulated by Brian Eno's '70s and '80s ambient productions, that there is no such thing as silence, that even in the apparent absence of sound, smaller, seemingly innocuous sounds fill the void; the second, that the consumption of music can be an intensely private affair, something that can also take you away from other people and deep into yourself.That may sound a bit esoteric, but make no mistake, this is music, not some sort of science experiment.Music nonetheless, though, music often given the "cinematic" tag, a not inaccurate appellation given Labradford's predilection for warm, heavily reverbed Spaghetti Western guitar lines that glide through their compositions like shadows of lost Ennio Morricone soundtracks.Minimalism and restraint are the orders of the day; Labradford's songs evolve at glacial speeds, often returning to the same chord or motif again and again, surrounding you without smothering you.The trio began in 1992 as a duo of guitarist Mark Nelson and keyboardist Carter Brown in Richmond, Virginia.For their next release, A Stable Reference (1995), Labradford added bassist Bobby Donne, who has remained with the group ever since.Carl, The Azusa Plane, Tone Language, The Spires of Oxford, A.Mus, Kiln, Windsor for the Derby, Yume Bitsu, Brian and Chris, Tribes of Neurot, A Small Good Thing, South (U.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Minutes() * 60 + currentTime.See all customer reviews...See all customer reviews...Send Labradford ringtones to your cell phone now!Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?The easiest way to shoot video reviews.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."Songs for maladroit intellectuals who love Post Modern...Greats from the Greatest
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