Felix Obelix - The Ringtone Album

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Featuring all the hallmarks of Felix Obelix’s idiosyncratic classical/pop/experimental style – mixed meter, unusual instrumentation, interconnecting melodies and rhythms – The Ringtone Album works both as a series of downloadable tunes for your phone, and an album to be listened to in its entirety.

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1.	Trabko 01:03	buy track
2.	Atonal Noisemaker 01:11	buy track
3.	Elka's Theme 01:09	buy track
4.	The Missing Song 01:04	buy track
5.	Summer Driving 00:59	buy track
6.	Ribcage Rhodelia 01:04	buy track
7.	Iguana Highway Escape 01:01	buy track
8.	Check Engine Light 01:11	buy track
9.	Bolero 01:16	buy track
10.	Every Narrow Burrow Widens 01:07	buy track
11.	Silver Rings 01:11	buy track
12.	Overheard at a Wedding 01:10	buy track
13.	Vladivostok 00:59	buy track
14.	Vaclav & Kim 01:09	buy track
15.	Fox Fox Fiddlehead 01:03	buy track
16.	Rotary Motor Horse 01:09	buy track
17.	Ship Whistle Cry (Home) 01:08	buy track
18.	The Seamstress 00:58	buy track
19.	Highwire Waltz 01:02	buy track
20.	Papel y Lata 01:17	buy track
21.	Clocktower Spies 00:54	buy track
22.	Apartment Complexities 01:07	buy track
23.	Warrior 01:00	buy track
24.	Motion 00:58	buy track
25.	The Historian 01:00	buy track
26.	Sneaking Suspicion 01:03	buy track
27.	The Bicycle Spoke 01:06	buy track
28.	Wind-Up Whippoorwill 00:59	buy track
29.	Lullaby 00:56	buy track
30.	The Smear Campaign 01:03	buy track

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The Ringtone Album features 30 one-minute-long, mostly instrumental earworms, intended as cellphone ringtones. The challenge? Pack the punch of a typical song (each with a beginning, middle and end) into about 60 seconds.

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released November 5, 2013

In late 2010, Wendy Spitzer, the brainchild behind the avant-pop, Carrboro, NC-based outfit Felix Obelix, experienced the passing of her elderly cellphone, and with it, its familiar ring. A few days into its absence, she realized that that ringtone was the piece of music she had listened to literally the most often in the preceding three years…and on a subconscious level, was the sound that meant someone wanted her. This begged the obvious question: if a ringtone could carry such meaning and weight, why wasn’t it a better piece of music?

From these initial musings, she began crafting her second full-length release – The Ringtone Album – comprised of 30 one-minute-long, mostly instrumental, fully notated earworms, intended as cellphone ringtones. Determined to give each ringtone the hi-fi treatment it deserved, Spitzer recorded most of the album at the Fidelitorium studio in Kernersville, NC, tracking all organ, bass, piano, marimba, and xylophone parts herself in just three intensive days. Josh Starmer (Birds and Arrows, The Old Ceremony) then added cello, and Terry Lonergan (Hiss Golden Messenger) later lent his talents on the drums. Nick Peterson (Track and Field) mixed and mastered the album.

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Felix Obelix Pittsboro, North Carolina

Felix Obelix is the avant-pop project of Wendy Spitzer. The twisted hits from unpopular Big-Note piano books that never were.

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