I got this one as a trade from a
good friend of mine. He sent me a big parcel full of CD`s, CD-R and good old
cassettes. This was laying on top of the music pile. Never heard of `Orange
Cake mix` before. It`s the solo project of US musician Jim Rao.
There`s 15 songs for a total running time of 39.17 minutes. There`s a lot of
music styles at work here: lo-fi electric guitar (zzz), lo-fi ambient
(andthenagain, less is more, deluxe harmonia, touch down earth, lost in the
crowd), indie / pop rock (days of time and space), homemade synth-pop
(clusterstone), psychedelic rock (the surrealist painter, everywhere
the light goes, way out there), lo-fi rock (safe inside your sky,
thought balloon, save for a rainy day) and lo-fi instrumental acoustic
guitar (June moonbeams). This is definitely homemade music. It often
sounds lo-fi in nature. I don`t know if it was done on purpose or not but I like
it. I would like to hear some more. This CD came out in 2002. It was released on
two record labels: Twilight Furniture and North Of January.
It seems that both labels folded. A little search on www.discogs.com and it looks like `harmonies and
atmospheres` is the last album from `Orange Cake Mix `. More info: https://myspace.com/jimraorangecakemix
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