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Carlton Wilkinson : Three Rooms
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Original songs based on piano and voice. Synthesizers, some guitars and percussion, other voices. influenced by rock, blues, world music, prog rock and Mahler, where the imagery of the words is paramount.
Genre: Rock: Post-Rock/Experimental
Release Date: 2009
Three Rooms
Carlton Wilkinson
Record Label: Carlton Wilkinson
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2. Pam (All These Colored Balloons) 4:08 + MP3 $0.99
3. That Dress 4:48 + MP3 $0.99
4. Trigger 3:13 + MP3 $0.99
5. A Bright and Twlight Rose 5:27 + MP3 $0.99
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7. The Chains 5:02 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

The songs on Three Rooms are looking outward--the lives of people, situations, states of mind. I prefer stripped-down arrangements, percussive guitar parts, wide-ranging melodies. These new songs build on that, fleshing out with overdubbed vocals, invented and discovered sounds, traditional instruments. There's a lot of detailed work in the recordings, but the overall tendency, like the structure of the songs, remains simple. Songs are incantations. These arrangements and recordings are my rituals.

Individual songs shouldn't require explanation, so I'm not going to offer any. They either work for you or they don't.

Many thanks to Dane Scalise for constant support during this project and to Mark Kalinowski and Mike Tarsia for help with the final mastering.

I also have a large body of work for choir, orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instruments. Some of that music is published by Calabrese Brothers Music and is available online.

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REVIEWS

Honest and Entertaining
author: Dane
                            
Moody, sexy, delirious, sultry, inventive, dark but not heavy handed, very fun! John cage and Jerry Lee lewis got it with Joni Mitchell and Captain Beef Heart and had a test tube baby. I don't even no what I mean by that!? But, I love the record! Great energy through out even though the instrumentation is often sparse! Nothing sounds quite like this record! It is a good one-of-a-kind sound! Love it!
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Good Stuff
author: Bill Milbrodt
                            
If you have a love for sound and music, you'll love "Three Rooms". In "Three Rooms", sonic and musical elements that were discovered or constructed by Carlton Wilkinson have been placed judiciously, and moment-by-moment, within a framework of musical components that ultimately constitutes nine different songs. Those musical components include his own along with some that are influenced by a pop music lexicon pioneered by the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and other bands known for breaking new ground in the language of recorded pop music. But, what's exciting to me is that all of those musical components are elemental. In other words, Mr. Wilkinson clearly understands the fundamental constructs of that language: its tiniest units; what we might consider to be its phonemes and syllables. And, in pulling them together, he has created an overall work that is unique, expressive, and entirely his own.
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