Jongles: Collected and Destroyed, Vol.1
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Record Label: Deep Soda
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Deep Soda is a band dedicated to realizing the bizarre and endlessly inventive musical nuggets hatched by front man Mondhexe Nordstrom. As a composer who has never had any formal musical training other than the music heard in his warped mind during chronic bouts of insomnia, Mondhexe recruited the current members of Deep Soda to interpret and arrange his perplexing musical ideas.
The band soon found itself deciphering these melodies and translating them into playable tunes. This resulted in a large catalogue of songs with a broad and restless stylistic range- from fake commercial jingles to epic rock wall-of-sound workouts.
In the summer of 2004, the band realized that they had spent several years building up an impressive live repertoire, but had no recorded music to show for it. Startled, they decided to halt all live performances immediately. They went into studio seclusion to record their complete masterworks, with the intention of releasing a 3-disc set called Collected and Destroyed.
The first volume of the series has arrived- it's called Jongles, and highlights the faux-commercial side of the Soda reprtoire. The album is comprised of tiny musical jewels, each as catchy as it is brief. It's as if you are watching TV and all the ads slowly begin to degrade and transmorgify into a psychedelic suite of anti-commercials.
The album was called a "Triumph of Subversion" by the one publication that was man enough to review it. (Seven Days, VT)
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embrace the soda!!!
author: greencat235
sweet, sticky, addictive and yes, deep. the deep soda dudes have passed these powerful gems of rock awesomeness and convenience through a sieve of top notch production quality to create a truly unique collection of powerpop quickies, commercials pitches for the less than commercial and all around beautifully strange concoctions. as their number one fan, i nearly soiled myself after seeing that they had finally released a CD!! and i hear there's another on the way!!
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Scrumtrulescent!
author: KG
The, um, thing on the cover is a pretty good indication of what you'll find when you put the disc in the player: Serialized absurdity mixed with impeccable execution and production, presented as a baker's dozen musical hijinks that make you remember that there is still unique music being made. The jingles on the album will tickle your temporal lobe, and the longer tracks (such as Red Carpet and Inside 9) will have you drooling in anticipation of Volume II. At least I think that's why I'm drooling. Pick this up if you're in the mood for a singular listening experience that is as rewarding as it is refreshing.
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A true studio gem.
author: B. Williamson
Jongles collects some of my favorite Soda songs from their live shows but puts that glossy studio sheen on each of them. Some tracks are so unlike the live renditions that they almost feel entirely new. Even a veteran Soda fan like myself was delighted with this collection. I can't wait for the next album!
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Jongles Volume 1 deftly sidesteps the post structuralist juggernaut of reificati
author: Adam Van Hyfte
Most people will fear Deep Soda. Others will embrace Deep Soda for the wrong reasons. The ignorant will call it strange. More enlightened souls will talk of deconstruction, but they too, are misguided. Put simply, Jongles: Collected and Destroyed Volume 1 deftly sidesteps the post structuralist juggernaut of reification.
True, the sound is varied, from the confident glam strut of Mechanized Jogging to the acoustic somnolence of Red Carpet, or from the infectious electronic groove of Extra Curricular to the overt commercial jingle Norman Dean, but Deep Soda isn’t just delighting in resisting classification. The Soda views each of these song archetypes as the best means to reach their desired ends. So don’t be mistaken, Deep Soda does not simply co-opt the sound of commercial jingles because parody is funny, but because the jingle is simply quickest path to your subconscious.
And what does Soda intend to do to your subconscious? That’s the real question.
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