FTAL Reviewed 006 - July 2011
Karnak Temples - The Din Of Light
Debacle Records CD / download
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"Foul Nest": Glenn Branca sat down in decompression chamber, chipping away at melancholia flint with determined chord echo. Six minutes pass, distorted riffs set alight timbres, freeing 2D monotony, edging towards A Broken Consort's Richard Skelton, only guitar, and force, is electric. This is not a hugely complex record, despite it's six-string base straddling boundaries of electro-acoustic, drone and Dark Ambient, but where there's will for simplicity, there's ways of mangling all ingredients to textural hodge-podge of sufficiently unnerving, therefore keepsake-endowed grunginess. It's not self-centred to want to be a happier person, yet all around the societal negatives are programmed in to outweigh positive gradients. Small efforts like Karnak Temples', buffer the chasm admirably.
http://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album...n-of-light
Thanet - Receiving Calls
Mordant Music CD / download
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Wistfully eerie always, sometimes plain gorgeous synth 'n' drum sorbet from lesser known library and tape music producer, taking his name from the Thanet district. Satisfaction takes time on Disc 1, preferring turgid melody reverting and percussive liposuction. Ante is upped on Disc 3's "Station Wave"; the 'scape grows fertile peacefulness from loose harmony magnetism. Global Communication's unfinished-business-epicness undercuts all rigid tension, commanding your foci throughout with a fleshed-out absinthe blur of psychedelic lethargy. In three hours you can plot a NOTW hack, but seldom spoil an invigorating artistic showcase, at least not "Receiving Calls". What's left from the wreckage is engrossing, if a tad lightweight in places, but with a release of this mass, square pegs and round holes do mix.
http://boomkat.com/downloads/422022-than...ving-calls
Darren Harper & Gimu - Field & Fern; Mountain & Sea
Rural Colours CD-R / download
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Rural Colours sprung onto the Ambient buyers' radar in 2010 with limited run CD-Rs. Later they adopted the full-weight subscription model, along with Mp3 downloads from their website and archive.org. Hibernate Records' alt. subsidiary, this their 40th catalog piece: four tracks of pristine collabo-drone, plus violins and field recs. Darren Harper's results with Gimu should solely be judged on the surface character, not the conceptual intent, since he's peppered his production arsenal with so many techniques to constitute an underground drone heavyweight. And, because Gimu's presence can be felt as an unknown quantity otherwise. "Dawn" is fit for an episode of The Blue Planet; shark-sprightly plunder-tropical, while "Rise" hints chronic overactivity breathes in small doses. Ambient takes no days off.
http://ruralcolours.co.uk/news/?page_id=489
Karnak Temples - The Din Of Light
Debacle Records CD / download
"Foul Nest": Glenn Branca sat down in decompression chamber, chipping away at melancholia flint with determined chord echo. Six minutes pass, distorted riffs set alight timbres, freeing 2D monotony, edging towards A Broken Consort's Richard Skelton, only guitar, and force, is electric. This is not a hugely complex record, despite it's six-string base straddling boundaries of electro-acoustic, drone and Dark Ambient, but where there's will for simplicity, there's ways of mangling all ingredients to textural hodge-podge of sufficiently unnerving, therefore keepsake-endowed grunginess. It's not self-centred to want to be a happier person, yet all around the societal negatives are programmed in to outweigh positive gradients. Small efforts like Karnak Temples', buffer the chasm admirably.
http://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album...n-of-light
Thanet - Receiving Calls
Mordant Music CD / download
Wistfully eerie always, sometimes plain gorgeous synth 'n' drum sorbet from lesser known library and tape music producer, taking his name from the Thanet district. Satisfaction takes time on Disc 1, preferring turgid melody reverting and percussive liposuction. Ante is upped on Disc 3's "Station Wave"; the 'scape grows fertile peacefulness from loose harmony magnetism. Global Communication's unfinished-business-epicness undercuts all rigid tension, commanding your foci throughout with a fleshed-out absinthe blur of psychedelic lethargy. In three hours you can plot a NOTW hack, but seldom spoil an invigorating artistic showcase, at least not "Receiving Calls". What's left from the wreckage is engrossing, if a tad lightweight in places, but with a release of this mass, square pegs and round holes do mix.
http://boomkat.com/downloads/422022-than...ving-calls
Darren Harper & Gimu - Field & Fern; Mountain & Sea
Rural Colours CD-R / download
Rural Colours sprung onto the Ambient buyers' radar in 2010 with limited run CD-Rs. Later they adopted the full-weight subscription model, along with Mp3 downloads from their website and archive.org. Hibernate Records' alt. subsidiary, this their 40th catalog piece: four tracks of pristine collabo-drone, plus violins and field recs. Darren Harper's results with Gimu should solely be judged on the surface character, not the conceptual intent, since he's peppered his production arsenal with so many techniques to constitute an underground drone heavyweight. And, because Gimu's presence can be felt as an unknown quantity otherwise. "Dawn" is fit for an episode of The Blue Planet; shark-sprightly plunder-tropical, while "Rise" hints chronic overactivity breathes in small doses. Ambient takes no days off.
http://ruralcolours.co.uk/news/?page_id=489