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IF

by Paul de Jong

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Zahir
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Zahir Paul de Jong!!!
Stuart Edwards
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Stuart Edwards Bought this via the Pay What You Bandcamp Friday thing. Not sure what to expect but this is excellent. Diverse, quirky and beautiful. A great album. Favorite track: The Art of What.
forrest stanley
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forrest stanley Majestic, confounding, joyous, and heartfelt.
Thank you Paul de Jong. Your gift feels like a pound of flesh, yet you remain standing.
Remarkable!
JB
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JB Straight out the door with a stomping melody built from an auctioneers ramble, the album becomes surprisingly gentle and melancholy - albeit marinated in the Books patented cheeky humour.

The lady uttering a hushed "Wow" at the splintering climax of the centerpiece Debt Free raised more than a few of my desensitised neck hairs... Favorite track: Auction Block.
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Hollywald 02:53
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IF 03:40
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Golden Gate 02:19
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Debt Free 04:41
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Baxter @73 03:56
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Snakes 00:53
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Purpose 01:59
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Troia 01:59

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Paul de Jong is best known as the cofounder, cellist and resident found sound savant of the beloved, defunct collage-pop duo, the Books. Five years after that band delivered their final album, The Way Out, to much acclaim, de Jong delivers his first solo album. IF sets the Books' early albums (particularly The Lemon of Pink) as a starting point, and elevates that beguiling sense of wonder and amazement to genuinely transcendent new heights. De Jong's ability to find the musical in the mundane has always been uncanny — it is part of what made the Books so magical — and that gift is what makes IF such a marvelous curiosity, and such a true pleasure to hear. In de Jong’s world, everything around him is a potential instrument: his mind-bogglingly vast collection of forgotten private press regional folk records, spoken-word oddities of indeterminate origin unearthed in discarded thrift store piles, and various everyday household utensils that we tend to take for granted. One man’s trash is de Jong’s tool to craft yet another treasure. Featuring a handful of friends and family as musical guests, IF steers a course from joyously eccentric folk-pop to humorously inside-out jazz, resulting in a refreshing piece of outsider art with a replay value that's off the charts.

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released April 28, 2015

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Paul de Jong North Adams, Massachusetts

Dutch-American cellist-composer Paul de Jong is probably best known as co-founder of collage-pop eccentrics, the Books. After the band’s breakup in 2011, de Jong embarked on a wild creative trip which to date has produced two solo albums and a single on Temporary Residence, live shows, videos, prints, collaborations, and the unlocking of his vast archive of fringe media aka the ‘Mall of Found’. ... more

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