Afterplanesman
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| Studio album by Nick Pynn | ||||
| Released | May 2004 | |||
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| Length | 37:03 | |||
| Label | Roundhill Music | |||
| Producer | Nick Pynn | |||
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Afterplanesman is the third solo studio album by British avant-folk musician Nick Pynn, originally released in May 2004 by Roundhill Music, and re-released in November 2008. Recorded after Pynn helped restore submarines in a Southampton military museum, where he discovered the job that an "afterplanesman" is given on board a submarine, Pynn "saw his position" and named the album accordingly. Playing most of its instruments on the album, Pynn also collaborated with Tom Arnold, and a total of eighteen musical instruments feature on the album, including traditional folk and experimental instruments.
The tracks on the album are said to form a "suite-like movement;" several of the tracks on the album use abstract structures, and sampled voices are occasionally used to emulate melody and deliver deadpan poetry, accompanying the music's ethereal sounds. Surreal sound effects such as playing cards also feature on the album. Afterplanesman was released to critical acclaim, with critcs finding the album to be a successful experiment. The Sunday Times included the reissue on their list of the 100 best albums of 2008, and Stewart Lee included the album on a list of his thirteen favourite albums of all time.
After beginning his career in the mid-1980s, Nick Pynn became known in the 1990s for his "avant-folk" music and usage of musical instruments he created himself, recording the albums In Mirrored Sky (1995) and Music for Windows (1999) for Roundhill Music, which were subsequently re-released as a double album in 2007. He also recorded collaboration albums with Richard Durrant in 1997 and Jane Bom-Bane in 2002, and began performing in "pick up bands" for stand up comedians such as Rich Hall and Stewart Lee, the latter of whom, when speaking about Afterplanesman, commented: "He's got all these different instruments that he's made himself, and dulcimers that he's salvaged, and things like a coconut that he's strung and he puts them all through loops and makes this music that's like folk music but too arty."
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