Watch a record spin round instead of a beach ball. Buy the SLOW TRUTH LP on black or marble vinyl from Super Secret Records.
www.supersecretrecords.com/ichi-ni-san-shi-slow-truth/
SLOW TRUTH, a favorite album of 2013:
End of an Ear staff favorite (Jacob Green):
www.endofanear.com/favorites.shtml
Austin Chronicle's Greg Beets and Austin Powell's Top 10s:
www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-01-03/austin-top-10/
Austin Chronicle's Raoul Hernandez 10 Vinyl Vitals:
www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-01-03/smooth-criminal-top-tens/
Orvld.com's top 50 Austin albums:
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"Between tenure in bands as stylistically varied as Stretford and Attack Formation, Austin vocalist/trumpeter Bill Jeffrey continues defying convention. Ichi Ni San Shi's debut long-player thus arrives as his chocolate-and-peanut-butter moment – an unlikely but revealing soundclash of disparate genres. On first reading, New Zealand's indie-pop renaissance of the Eighties and Kraftwerk-derived techno-minimalism don't have much in common, but their sonic kinship becomes a foregone conclusion on Slow Truth. Against a canvas of faraway guitar and sleek keyboard mechanics, Jeffrey's plaintive, transitory vocals take on real emotive weight on tunes like "Almost Ready" and "Cut and Dry." Faint shades of James Murphy's "All My Friends" abound. Sheila Scoville's unobtrusive beat selections provide just the right amount of propellant to turn these free-range introspections into dreamlike earworms. Somewhere in a parallel universe, there's a cult film missing its soundtrack."
—http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2013-11-29/ichi-ni-san-shi-slow-truth/
"There are beguiling experiments afoot. “Watch Them Grow” is a prime example, starting as an irritating, awkward interaction between elements that seem miles apart, then morphing into a positively enlightening experience with the help of a few well-placed synthpeggios and a momentum that, once it picks up, just won’t quit."
—http://www.tinymixtapes.com/cerberus/ichi-ni-san-shi-slow-truth
Ichi Ni San Shi is
Amanda Jones: keyboard/vocals
Marisa Pool: bass
Sheila Scoville: beats/noises
Jonathan Horne: guitars/vocals/sax
Bill Jeffery: vocals/trumpet
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Sean Morales: bass on "Almost Ready" and "Further Out"
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released September 28, 2013
All music arranged by Ichi Ni San Shi
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Produced by Paul Millar (except "Almost Ready" and
"Further Out" with help from Jacob Green)
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Front cover art by Amanda Jones:
amandahbjones.wordpress.com
Back cover art by Bill Jeffery:
www.billjeffery.com
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Released by Super Secret Records:
www.supersecretrecords.com