Ubiquity
2007
And He Just Pointed To The Sky...
About This Album
Despite the fact that Peder Pedersen has made his name known through his beat-oriented production work with the Prunes and Pelding, on his first solo effort, And He Just Pointed to the Sky..., he takes a much different approach, focusing more on atmosphere and mood than rhythm. In fact, percussion is hardly used during the album's 13 songs. More frequently Peder sticks with simple, haunting arrangements that rely heavily on the B-3 organ, picked guitars, vibraphone, and harmonized background humming, creating something that sounds like the soundtrack to a 21st century noir film, dark and sultry and eerie. Ubiquity labelmate Shawn Lee adds his instrumental expertise on two tracks ("Ache" and "Klart"), as do vocalists Ane Trolle ("White Lilies"), Dean Bowman ("The Sour"), Joy Morgan (the wonderfully haunting "Nothing," on which she sings, straight out of a Tarantino movie, "Someone strangled me/And now I'm dead for sure"), and the blessed-with-a-sweet-falsetto Nino Moschella ("Would You"), working together to make a consistent, strong record perfect for late summer nights, those few hours when the city is quiet before the next day starts up again.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3 and 8)

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