Ben Vaughn, Designs in Music - 41m 47s

Tracks & Durations

1. Avanti	2:49
2. Apt. 604	2:44
3. Too Happy	4:11
4. Crash Point	3:23
5. While Were Here	3:51
6. Blues From Nowhere	3:42
7. The Big Parade	3:29
8. Wrong Turn	3:39
9. Frequent Flier	3:16
10. Brushfire	3:30
11. The Stalker Pt. II	3:38
12. Smoketree Sernarade	3:28

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Review

Rarely does one record so confidently honor a category like Ben Vaughn's Designs in Music. This fun, audio soundtrack for what could be spaghetti westerns, quirky sitcoms, romantic cinema, and jazzy incidental moments creates its own kind of visual stories, moods, meditations, and more than its share of whimsy. You're bound to hear echoes of Henry Mancini, Enrico Morricone, and others whose film scores from the '60s and '70s remain some of the most unsung works of pop culture even today. On "While We're Here," Vaughn and various member of his exquisitely assembled 15-piece ensemble also give a bold shout out to Mark Isham, who scored many of Alan Rudolph's films in the '80s. You can also tell the way he voices various instruments and vocal splashes throughout that he's yet another Brian Wilson aficionado. Which is not to say Designs is a retro album full of homage. Rather, it's Vaughn and company exploring terrain that is familiar and foreign and always original, with inventive flourishes and cool and occasionally abstract song titles. Like the best of the genre, these intriguing music beds always seem to lie right below our consciousness and yet right on our radar screens, too. --Martin Keller

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