normal hum, enacting the idea of a drone, is no "real" idea of ambient music. it is soulless. it is gravity. down or up?
like a drone, a drone has no brain. it has no idea what it said previously. because it just is. because it has no...memory?
yes, that's it. thankfully, music has less ability to harm us than virulent destruction does. music can be torture.
as much as human monitoring behaviour and split personality opportunism can act as manipulation, what all this "human", is a
lack of profit in exercises that sidestep the norm, that treat humans. because good humans do not want lucrative proliferation.
what i am talking about and setting up is the idea of musical beauracracy being untarnished by idiocy. ambient hums, drones and
sibilance should not be shot through with soullessness. the lust/infatuation/love triumvirate is never answered by fake tries.
neither is mediocrity to be applauded when roboticness is something humans want to do the furthest to get away from altogether.
so, having said all that potentially negative stuff, how does the overall content of this record weigh up in line with decency?
luckily this is one of the more memorable, for the right reasons, and stoic releases of the last six months thus far. while
endless sound cloud streams can confuse, and spotify and band camp can irritate for their fiddly-ness, this is a diamond.
the most "solid" thing about the tracks are their overlapping construction, their use of layering, and their timekeeping. the
weakest tracks even do not plummet anywhere near kitsch structures and droidian blandness. this is peaceful, ennui, oasis.
my favourite track is track five, "part-time romantic". it is quite subdued yet exudes a furry-coated love and meticulous feel.
there is a nice shimmer about the opening notes of this album. harmonies drift into crevices eschewed by normative hum. this is
the lie of ambient. on the other side of the tracks...confuse. on the other side of the coin...noise. on the different turn of
the ear...annoyance. circumventing parochial structures as to become anti-religion, multi-faith, and just like buddha, "awake".
this is a nice piece of art to wake up to. it's also great for sleepy times when we all need some comfort from the real world.
this is compliance in music to me. a sense of weightlessness without dread, tittering without unease...the terminator, broken.
we live in a cosmopolitan era full of confusing atrocities. these plague the media, the bias media becomes strong, the lens is
drugged, the drug of the unconscious mind and being a yes-man, rather than being a quiet, wise man or woman, is blurred beyond
recognition. care is trodden into the ground, lives get ruined...with this release, i found time, to put structure, working
against chaos.
isn't that what we always wanted out of departures, after all?
by mick buckingham
North Atlantic Drift - Departures LP.
like a drone, a drone has no brain. it has no idea what it said previously. because it just is. because it has no...memory?
yes, that's it. thankfully, music has less ability to harm us than virulent destruction does. music can be torture.
as much as human monitoring behaviour and split personality opportunism can act as manipulation, what all this "human", is a
lack of profit in exercises that sidestep the norm, that treat humans. because good humans do not want lucrative proliferation.
what i am talking about and setting up is the idea of musical beauracracy being untarnished by idiocy. ambient hums, drones and
sibilance should not be shot through with soullessness. the lust/infatuation/love triumvirate is never answered by fake tries.
neither is mediocrity to be applauded when roboticness is something humans want to do the furthest to get away from altogether.
so, having said all that potentially negative stuff, how does the overall content of this record weigh up in line with decency?
luckily this is one of the more memorable, for the right reasons, and stoic releases of the last six months thus far. while
endless sound cloud streams can confuse, and spotify and band camp can irritate for their fiddly-ness, this is a diamond.
the most "solid" thing about the tracks are their overlapping construction, their use of layering, and their timekeeping. the
weakest tracks even do not plummet anywhere near kitsch structures and droidian blandness. this is peaceful, ennui, oasis.
my favourite track is track five, "part-time romantic". it is quite subdued yet exudes a furry-coated love and meticulous feel.
there is a nice shimmer about the opening notes of this album. harmonies drift into crevices eschewed by normative hum. this is
the lie of ambient. on the other side of the tracks...confuse. on the other side of the coin...noise. on the different turn of
the ear...annoyance. circumventing parochial structures as to become anti-religion, multi-faith, and just like buddha, "awake".
this is a nice piece of art to wake up to. it's also great for sleepy times when we all need some comfort from the real world.
this is compliance in music to me. a sense of weightlessness without dread, tittering without unease...the terminator, broken.
we live in a cosmopolitan era full of confusing atrocities. these plague the media, the bias media becomes strong, the lens is
drugged, the drug of the unconscious mind and being a yes-man, rather than being a quiet, wise man or woman, is blurred beyond
recognition. care is trodden into the ground, lives get ruined...with this release, i found time, to put structure, working
against chaos.
isn't that what we always wanted out of departures, after all?
by mick buckingham
North Atlantic Drift - Departures LP.