{"id":1376,"date":"2010-02-04T00:33:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2010-02-04T00:49:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:49:56","slug":"pedro-and-kathryn-williams-demons-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"pedro and kathryn williams &#8211; demons in cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>well, it&#39;s been a day of rediscovery that i have to say has been a joy from start to finish.<\/div>\n<div>basically, back in those far off days of the early to mid 00s i fell under the spell of music that mixed traditional instrumentation and laptop fidgeting.<\/div>\n<div>people who like to throw up genre names a lot of it was tagged as folktronica, but i aint getting into what classes as such.<\/div>\n<div>all i&#39;ll say, is that one of the gems of this era was this collaboration between laptop maestro, <b>pedro <\/b>(aka james rutledge), and soon to be folk songstress of excellence, <b>kathryn williams<\/b>.<\/div>\n<div>the ep was released by the then fledging label, <u>moshi moshi<\/u> in their pre <b>hot chip<\/b>, <b>bloc party<\/b>, and\u00c2\u00a0<b>florence and her machine<\/b> chart busting days,\u00c2\u00a0and for me its release was a real turning point in my listening habits.<\/div>\n<div>the ep became an absolute solid fixture for months on end, both of the tracks (and one very cut up reedit), just oozed perfection sending me off on a journey of discovery that mainly revolved around releases on the excellent melodic label (home of <b>pedro<\/b> solo material, <b>minotaur shock<\/b> and <b>baikonour<\/b> amongst \u00c2\u00a0others of course)<\/div>\n<div>the music was spacious yet intimate, warm but clinical, traditional but futuristic, and utterly utterly wonderfully matched by kathryns hushed sensuality.<\/div>\n<div>as you can tell, even now, just thinking about the track and i become a gushing fan.<\/div>\n<div>so, today, in my need to find a musical fix, as i said in the previous post, i chanced upon a calming beauty that put me in mind to excavate the melodic part of the archive, and when this track hit the playlist, i melted like it was 2003 all over again.<\/div>\n<div>of course, <b>pedro <\/b>has gone onto all manner of deserved acclaim, and kathryn recently released a beautiful, \u00c2\u00a0but more traditional album, <font color=\"#339999\">leave to remain<\/font>, and according to her website there is a new one to come soon.<\/div>\n<div>so, given that this track has once again spurred me into action, made my blood flow, i have decided to dust it down, and post it.<\/div>\n<div>this, along with the flip, and re-edit were collated on the <b>pedro <\/b>compilation, <font color=\"#339999\">early pedro<\/font>, that you should be able to track down quite easily.<\/div>\n<div>so to tease and tempt you to discover more of james work under his <b>pedro <\/b>alias, please hit the link and enjoy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>mp3 <\/u>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/demons_in_cases.mp3\">pedro and kathryn williams &#8211; demons in cases<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrutledge.com\/\">here<\/a> &#8211; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/melodic.co.uk\/\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; well, it&#39;s been a day of rediscovery that i have to say has been a joy from start to finish. basically, back in those far off days of the early to mid 00s i fell under the spell of music that mixed traditional instrumentation and laptop fidgeting. people who like to throw up genre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}