More Department Of Eagles

While digging through french and english La Blogotheque's minimalist Take Away Show archives, I found an older episode featuring the aforementioned band of much recent posting here and elsewhere.

For this Take Away show, Department of Eagles' Daniel Rosse and Fred Nicolaus sing and play guitar while walking through teeming Chinatown streets, the honks and shouts and passersby weaving amongst them as they play six lovely songs from their first and (upcoming) second albums.  

What's so ingenious about the Take Away Show format is its confluence of simplicity and unpredictability, the stripped down acoustics of talented musicians forming the realtime soundtrack to the world and life around them; and the Department of Eagles episode is a superior example.

There's a lot to watch here, so if you're pressed for time start with "Deep Blue Sea" about five minutes into part 1.  The mesh of sound and image as Rosse walks though the bustling playfield is stunning, tapping into the same aesthetic ground of works like Koyyanisqatsi and Baraka, but in a non-orchestrated way that's more intimate, unsure of itself, and less epic in scope.  

Here's a tracklisting for the episode, followed by Part 1 and Part 2 in their entirety:

"No One Does It Like You"

"Deep Blue Sea"

"You Move Too Fast"

"Sailing By Night"

"Balmy Nights"

"What Can Be Done"

#71 - Deartment of Eagles - Part 1
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#71.2 - Department of Eagles - Part 2
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