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[355] Dean & Britta - L'avventura
This is the sixth and last entry for Dean & Britta’s first album L’avventura and is the CD version that was released when the LP version was first issued in 2008.
To be honest I’m not sure when or how this came into my possession. the barcode has had a hole punched through it (before the digipack was glued together) so I suspect that Dean sent it to me at some point, probably around the release… although the LP came with a CD copy of the album so maybe this was that, although that does cast doubts on the second promo I had which I assumed was the one that came with the LP.
Anyway… it’s in a nice digipack case, I’ve always preferred a digipack to a jewel case because they age more authentically, although I prefer a card sleeve even more.
Since I’ve already posted five times about this album I’ll pad this post with a couple of videos that were made for tracks from the LP.
Night Nurse:
Back in 2003 when this video was released I wasn’t sure whether the stuttering video used extensively in the clip was intentional or caused by my dial-up connection and low-powered computer. I’m still inclined to think that in the days when the internet was struggling with media display (this was two years before YouTube when we were dealing with crappy FLash videos) it was ill advised to intentionally include that effect! I’m still not happy with it. I do however love the hair-cutting sequence!
Knives from Bavaria:
Dean & Britta recorded this clip for La blogotheque in 2009. I have an issue with this one too - at the beginning of the clip there’s an announcement by a MTA staff member announcing that “no video taking at the station” - now, I don’t know the by-laws that apply to the New York Subway but… if the law is that you’re not allowed to take video on the system then there is rule breaking going on and Dean’s “we really look like terrorists” is irrelevant! Perhaps being closely related to soneone who’s job it is to look after customers on the London Underground I have sympathy with the poor folk trying to do their job!
I did check the MTA website and it seems that videoing is allowed although I suspect the La blogotheque set-up might have pushed the boundaries of what’s permitted (also the by-laws have been re-written in the age of social-media so are probably quite different from the ones that applied in 2009). But… maybe it was just a jobsworth!
Anyway… still a lovely video!
One other thing about L’avventura - as someone trying to maintain a database of recordings and performances the decision to record a somg called Indian Summer that wasn’t that Indian Summer was a headache I could have done without :)
- Catalogue Number: AHFO 10/068
- Artist: Dean & Britta
- Title: L’avventura
- Packaging: Digipack
- Format: CD
- Buy ‘L’avventura’ on Bandcamp
Previously in my record collection: