Café Tristesse by Andrew Heath & Mi Cosa de Resistance
Café Tristesse explores poetic, urban loneliness and faded grandeur. There is a gentle melancholy at play here set out by Fernando’s wistful, lo-fi guitar, beautifully hesitant and fragile alongside my additions of shifting textures and minimal piano - creating clusters of melodic sound often conveying a ‘distant’ soundstage as though a radio is playing in another room. Working remotely across both hemispheres and the Atlantic, we often spoke in visual terms about the music, both conjuring up the images of Edward Hopper’s paintings and those of Impressionist, fin de siècle European cafés
Originally released by Audiobulb, we’d like to thank David Newman for his support. Although we have worked together before (on A Speechless Body released on Whitelabrecs and Dispatches, released on Giraffe Tapes), Café Tristesse is our first joint album.
Tracklist
| 1. | The Dreamers | 4:51 |
| 2. | Spaghetti Western | 5:42 |
| 3. | A Letter to No One | 5:09 |
| 4. | My Favourite Window | 6:40 |
| 5. | A Place in the Shadows | 6:59 |
| 6. | The Absentee | 4:35 |
| 7. | The Night Waiter | 7:10 |
| 8. | Until We Meet Again | 3:34 |
| 9. | Dorian Grey | 7:54 |
Credits
Mastering and artwork by Andrew Heath
License
All rights reserved.
Ambient, piano based, lower-case music. Quiet and intimate - it explores sounds from both acoustic and electronic sources, along with processed field recordings and gathered, ‘found’ sounds. This music is not static though. It drifts. It constantly shifts and creates new maps that are full of change but listen carefully and you’ll also hear quiet, random glitches or shimmering dissonances.