JEFF TARLTONīS draginSpring
FORMAT : COMPACT DISC
CATALOGUE NUMBER : DELEC CD 075
RELEASE DATE : JUNE 1ST 2000
RELEASED ON DELERIUM RECORDS

From a one-room coal oven-heated flat in Berlin : living playing street music, doing the odd job, trying to survive that juncture where one must wrestle their personal demons, the avant-bard Jeff Tarlton now delivers draginSpring, the follow-up to his impressive 1997 debut Astral Years . Once again, straddling roughly the last, oh, 1000 years of music style, this ego goes on a collective guided tour of our global memory, with eternal melodies, swirling acoustics and truthful stories.

On his 2nd album Tarlton pulls in closer to trad. and mystic folk; ā la early Jefferson Airplane or Godspeed You Black Emperor. Songs likeNot Fade Away and Restless Spirits will suck you in to their strange atmosphere; Gainrider is grafting Sonic Youth to Rachmaninoff ... Telepath lyricly comments on current media behind a sweet smokey-fluted jam ... 13 un-deconstructed tracks full of layered space, treated nooks, & crannies accessible only to headphones. Itīs peopled with musicians met along the way as well as denizens of the emerging Berlin art and music scene... to say draginSpring has a mottled pedigree is an understatement!
"Thereīs a lot of talent in Berlin, Iīve been singinī in the bars here for the last six years and living here for eight... so Iīm pretty well informed. And now that the world in general is looking at Berlin more these days itīs only natural the music scene will get more exposure."

Recorded slowly at many locations through out Europe, the singer/songwriter from Detroit has created more than an original soundtrack to a real life road-movie ... itīs an essential work by a down-and-out artist on the mythic journey inward. It is in fact, a very Beat album ... "itīs not a case of experimenting w/ music but rather experiementing with my very life. The tunes just happen. Iīm not a singer/songwriter at all really ... my trip is magic, exploration ... yes, make that magician/explorer thank you."

Indeed ... so by all means, enter draginSpringsī realm of magic, and get ready for a strange and beautiful roadtrip!