{"id":266,"date":"2010-06-18T05:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:47:37","slug":"bootleg-bin-jason-falkner-can-you-still-feel-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/18\/bootleg-bin-jason-falkner-can-you-still-feel-demos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bootleg Bin: Jason Falkner – \u201cCan You Still Feel?\u201d Demos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note<\/strong>: Next week I’ll publish my extensive three-part interview with Jason Falkner<\/strong>. The multi-instrumentalist is a former member of the Three O’Clock,<\/strong> Jellyfish <\/strong>and the Grays<\/strong>, and has recorded with artists including Air<\/strong>, Dennis Diken<\/strong>, Beck<\/strong>, Charlotte Gainsbourg<\/strong> and many others. As a teaser\/preview of that piece, here’s a review of a bootleg<\/span> um, unauthorized collectors-only collection from awhile back.<\/em><\/p>\n

Powerpop wunderkind Jason Falkner<\/strong>, fresh from stints with Jellyfish <\/strong>and The Grays<\/strong>, recorded his peerless sophomore solo disc Can You Still Feel<\/em> in 1997 with Nigel Godrich<\/strong> (producer for Radiohead<\/strong>, and Paul McCartney<\/strong>‘s Chaos and Creation in the Backyard<\/em>) behind the boards. The album was polished to a sonic sheen that presented Falkner’s carefully-crafted pop meisterworks to their best advantage. With that in mind, why would one wish to hear the demos for those sessions?<\/p>\n

The answer lies in the fact that these particular demos represent something of an alternate realization of the finished product. Quite accomplished on a wide array of instruments, and no slouch at the recording console himself, Falkner’s demos for Can You Still Feel<\/em> reveal different — yet not at all unfinished — arrangements for a number of the songs. The difference is most apparent on “The Invitation.” In its place as the legit album’s leadoff track, “The Invitation” is a brief intro styled after the first thirty seconds of The Beatles<\/strong>‘ “Honey Pie.” But on the demo disc, it’s a full-length pop song in a more traditional arrangement. Contrasts between the demos and the released album continue throughout the disc. Even the track sequencing makes for a different, well, “feel.”<\/p>\n

A handful of these demo tracks may have subsequently appeared on either of Falkner’s two legitimate demo collections, but there’s still plenty here for the committed fan (or the willing-to-be-converted).<\/p>\n

Difficulty to Locate: 8 out of 10<\/em>
\n General Listenability: 7 out of 10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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