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Designs in Music
Designs in Music
Ben Vaughn / CD / 2006
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Artist
Ben Vaughn
Format
CD
Genre
Rock
Label Name
Soundstage 15
Producer
Ben Vaughn
Release Date
2006 05 16
Song List
1: Avanti (2:49)
2: Apt. 604 (2:44)
3: Too Happy (4:11)
4: Crash Point (3:23)
5: While We're Here (3:51)
6: Blues from Nowhere (3:42)
7: The Big Parade (3:29)
8: Wrong Turn (3:39)
9: Frequent Flier (3:16)
10: Brushfire (3:30)
11: The Stalker, Pt. 2 (3:38)
12: Smoketree Serenade (3:28)
Style.Categories
Retro-Rock, Roots Rock, Rock & Roll
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While
rock
fans know
Ben Vaughn
from the handful of witty but rockin' albums he cut in the '80s and '90s with his band
the Ben Vaughn Combo
, since the mid-'90s
Vaughn
has been making his bread and butter working as a composer for film and television, hitting pay dirt with his music for the shows
Third Rock from the Sun
,
Grounded for Life
and
That 70s Show
. For his first album since 1997,
Vaughn
has taken his inspiration from his current day job by composing and conducting 12 pieces for movies that exist only in his head. Recorded with a 16-piece studio band (complete with horns, strings, and a whistler),
Designs in Music
is a collection of instrumentals that harkens back to the era when film scores had personality and added atmosphere to a film rather than simply adding more rumble to the Dolby Surround mix.
Vaughn
appears to be having some fun with this stuff, and the shadows of such sonic eccentrics as
Esquivel
and
Joe Meek
can be heard throughout the album, but
Designs in Music
doesn't sound at all like a goof; there's far too much skill on display for this to be a joke, and
Vaughn
and his collaborators certainly do right by their influences; the
spy flick
ambiance of
"The Stalker Pt. II,"
the western pastiche on
"Smoketree Serenade,"
the European intrigue of
"The Big Parade,"
and the uber-cheery
"Avanti"
wouldn't sound out of place in any number of late-show epics from the '60s, while the arrangements (by
Vaughn
and
Ryan "Shmedly" Maynes
) are superbly inventive (facing the rattley twang of the bass end of a clavinet against a banjo shouldn't work, but somehow they make it happen).
Designs in Music
is smart and engaging fun that honors
pop
music history while making just a little of its own. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
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