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Dossier

Bethurum

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Sonic Spark

Over the years I have grown to adore Bethurum albums, but this by far is his most complex, displaying the greatest diversity of styles. Tracks such as City Sweet and Chartreuse are instrumentally thick and solid tracks, and I think Synesthesia would perfectly lend itself to film scoring. Tracks such as After Dawn employs jazz references, and is a more mellow groove tune, and yet songs such as Running Faster and It Rained return to Bethurum’s drum and bass roots while simultaneously incorporating new musical influences. Throughout Dossier, Bethurum masterfully and articulately captures a variety of genres to create unique sounds, which when compiled have morphed to become an extremely innovative project. Word is on the street that Bethurum is also in partnership with another (whose vocals are featured on Running Faster and After Dawn) on an electro album that will be released in the upcoming months by group name Chassis; I cannot wait to see what sounds the two of them conjure up on that project.

A tour de force

DOSSIER storms the shore in full armor, flies its crest and then lurches into the battlefields of love and war, which in this tale are tantamount. It is at once a debut, an encore and a retrospective – referencing previous albums as well as itself for an effect that is nostalgic and, track 4/disc 1 calls it, synesthetic. Bethurum’s commitment to authenticity is poignant. The initial beats and bells in Train of Thought were sampled on the train tracks of Elliot Bay where Bethurum runs, the layered stabs in Silhouette were wielded by his middle-school trumpet, and his signature kick drum in Arms Race is the explosive punch of a Claymore-mine. For all its smoking guns and grandeur, DOSSIER is at times disarmingly simple. It’s about a boy – and so, of course, also about a girl. In Goodbye Girl he’s bidding farewell to “she” and love and in the next track (It Rained) he relearns “cooking for one”. Battle scar or skinned knee - you be the judge; his heart’s on his sleeve. This interpretation is allowed throughout; only five songs feature vocals, which declares Bethurum’s preference for the unrestricted applicableness of instrumentals. Happy then that fortune favors the bold, as that DOSSIER surely is. Two discs and 32 tracks burn, blast and pirouette triumphantly to the closing credits: “Written, produced, performed, engineered and mastered by Benjamin N. Bethurum.” A soundtrack for the armies of one.

Get the job done...

That is what this double disc set does - and what it helps me do when played. When I listen to it, I automatically listen to both discs, as the story carries throughout the songs, and keeps you traveling along with it. My top faves in this set are "Swimming with Sharks," "City Sweet," "Good Bye Girl," and "Hudson 954." I guess because they are on the chill side, and keep me focused. The conviction of sentiment behind each track comes through with a clarity ordinarily reserved for artists in their second or third decade of creation. While each track stands on its own, the sum of the parts definitely makes a larger impact on the listener. I find myself realizing there are times of day, or times of life for which this album would be the perfect sound track. You don't score your life to this album, but somehow this album seems to have been scored for your life (each track fitting into different situations). Like I said, it gets the job done.

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  • $9.99
  • Genres: Electronic, Music
  • Released: May 28, 2009
  • ℗ 2009 Concentric Records

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