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CD REVIEW
Walking the line of creativity
“YOUR LOVE MEANS EVERY
THING”
Faultline
★★★★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
BY JUSTIN BAJAN
THE GAMECOCK
The album title sounds cliched.
The name Faultline makes the
"group” sound too close to a tal
entless corporate rock band for it
to be taken seriously. But playing
the album eradicates these pre
conceived j udgments.
Faultline is the nom de plume of
David Kosten, an electronic DJ from
North London. His debut album was
"Closer Colder," released on One
Little Indian Records in 1999. The
album wasn't well promoted, and it
didn't feature a bevy of great vocal
ists as Kosten's new album does.
"Your Love Means Everything"
features 12 tracks, half of which
feature guest vocalists: Chris
Martin of Coldplay, Michael Stipe
of REM, Wayne Coyne of the
Flaming Lips, Cannibal Ox and
Jacob Golden. Each artist only
adds to Kosten’s angelic music,
music that finds time to be both
delicate and abrasive.
"Where is my Boy?" features
Martin without the safety of his
band to complement his voice,
leaving him only his own talent to
prove his ability. But Martin an
swers this challenge with an emo
tional performance, almost with
the beauty of a modern-day opera.
His vocals progress from somber
to utterly despairing, and mirror
the desperate title of the song.
The next song, "Sweet Iris," is
one of the six instrumental tracks
Kosten produced for the album.
Kosten creates music that, like an
orchestral or jazz composition, can
survive without the luxury of a vo
calist. He is skillful enough to
make voiceless music that still cap
tivates the listener. This song does
just that as it takes a hypnotizing
journey through eerie effects, tin
kling bells and a clanging guitar.
"It ain't my fault that you
crossed the line, now the drum
track gotta realign your spine,"
bellows a husky-voiced Vast on
"Waiting For the Green Light.”
The addition of two under-the
radar rappers comes as a welcome
surprise on an album that features
fragile rock singers.
The track features Vast and
Vordul of the underground rap duo
Cannibal Ox spitting verses over
an aggressive, coarse drumbeat.
Kosten displays his range on this
track, which would fit just right in
any indie hip-hop D J’s playlist.
Kosten juxtaposes the ragged
intensity of "Waiting For the
Green Light" with the gentile,
easygoing "The Colossal Gray
Sunshine." This song features
Coyne almost weeping. With lines
such as "You're turning off the sun
by turning off your love," the lis
tener can feel the melancholy
Coyne must have been going
through to pen such a sad lyric.
Stipe's vocals on "Greenfields"
will shock those expecting him to
churn out a bouncy, optimistic,
high-pitched performance remi
niscent of his work with REM.
Stipe haunts listeners with gut
tural lyrics such as "Green fields
are gone now, parched by the sun,
gone from the valleys where rivers
used to run." When he implores,
"Where are the green fields that we
used to roam?" he almost compels
the listener to formulate an an
swer to Stipe's painful inquiry.
A possible misconception about
instrumental music is that it's
electronically driven, composed
of samples and sound effects - mu
sic that is suited more to soulless,
bifocal-wearing scientists than to
energy-craving rock fans.
But Kosten bucks this conclu
sion with tracks such as "Clocks,"
a jaunty song that features acous
tic and electric guitars and puls
ing drums. He proves that music
without a singer can be emotional
and moving.
With "Your Love Means
Everything," Kosten—or Faultline
— blends complex instrumentals
and brilliant vocalists to make an
album that lacks nothing.
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27 films to be shown at event
BY ELEANOR SIBAL
tllK GAMECOCK
For the one-time price of $5,
movie fans can experience the
sixth annual Colossal Film
Crawl on Sept. 19. The festival,
which showcases filmmakers
from the Southeast, is a multi
venue affair that lets attendees
travel from site to site to expe
rience different kinds of movies.
The films — avant-garde,
low-budget, hidden jewels —
vary from documentaries to
comedies to horror flicks.
Twenty-seven films by 22 film
makers from such states as
Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia will be featured.
Venues that will showcase
films Thursday evening are
Art Bar, Senate Park, Velvet
and 1223 (at 1223 Lincoln St.).
Doors will be open from 6:30 to
11 p.m., and each site will give
out wristbands 30 minutes be
fore its first movie.
Last year's attendance was
about 400, according to Free
Times reporter and Film
Crawl representative Amanda
Presley. "Since we have the
new award-winner feature this
year, hopefully the attendance
will be a little bit larger."
That feature is the Friday
night showcase, which will
screen all nine of the festival's award
winners. These films will be shown,
starting at 6:30 p.m., at the
Nickelodeon Theatre on Main
Street. A discussion with filmmak
ers will follow at 8:30 p.m. Tickets for
Friday night's feature are $8, and
combination tickets, which will cov
er both Thursday and Friday nights,
are $10. Because the Nickelodeon has
limited seating, Presley suggests get
ting tickets in advance.
Sponsors Eastman Kodak,
Bacardi Silver and Logan Raye
Salon will donate money for this
year's festival awards, including
a $1,000 award for Best of Show,
$250 for Best Screenplay and $250
for Best Performance. To recog
nize more unique films, the festi
val will also hand out the awards
Best Documentary, Best
Experimental Film and Best Film
by Women, sponsored by the non
profit group Women in Production
Professionals.
Presley decided which films to in
clude in the 2002 Film Crawl after
she contacted film schools and film
commissions all over the Southeast.
"I sat down and watched all the
films submitted for the actual fes
tival," Presley said. "We try to in
clude as many films as possible to
showcase Southeast filmmaking,
and the awards are given to the
best and brightest."
The films are j udged by a three
person panel, all of whom are ex
perienced in filmmaking. The Free
Times newspaper is coordinating
the film festival to provide a place
for regional independent filmmak
ers to showcase their work. All
films are 30 minutes or less.
For more information about tick
ets and the films being shown, con
tact Presley or Amy Singmaster at
(803) 765-0707, ext. 129.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS
Michael Stipe of REM lends his vocals to Faultllne’s release,
“Your Love Means Everything.”
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