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06-12-2015, 11:11 AM | #671 (permalink) |
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I think that Ege Bamyasi is a bit of a grower as well. The noodling gets less pointless the more you start to familiarize yourself with the music.
Also, I have a suggestion. Do you think that you can put the track names in your reviews? Not everyone remembers the tracklisting of an album and while it's not a massive hassle to google it when reading one of your reviews, I think it'd help. It's your thing so do as you please though.
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06-12-2015, 11:32 AM | #672 (permalink) |
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Well I'm glad I went with Ege Bamyasi rather than their other stuff because imo this is their most accessible. The "formless noodling" is something you have to get used to with them and then you'll sort of realize that that's not really what it is at all but instead some of the most well formed "improv" I've ever heard. Can is definately a grower if a band but their really not that hard to get into compared to other experimental bands I've heard in fact I would go as far to say that Can is extremely accessible.
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But their songs, even the ones that seem like groovy, poppy easy listening, have a depth and a weird madness to them I've never encountered anywhere else.
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06-12-2015, 01:25 PM | #675 (permalink) | |
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06-12-2015, 01:39 PM | #677 (permalink) |
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For sure TH, just throwing it out there. I figured you'd be too lazy .
I know he likes ambient, but I'm worried about the outcome. It's a real nail biter.
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06-12-2015, 06:49 PM | #680 (permalink) |
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Title: In den garten pharaos Artiste: Popul Vuh Genre: Ambient Familiarity: Zero Track 1(Love) There are apparently only two tracks on this album, so I'll go into them in a little more depth than I normally do here. There's a very gentle, soft, almost organic feel to this in the first few minutes of the seventeen plus that it runs for. I'm kind of reminded of Gandalf a little, though his music does have a tendency to get a little wearing sometimes. This, so far, has kept my attention as it morphs into different sounds and themes as it goes. I like the tribal style drumming that comes in and then the kind of forest sounds. It's certainly very relaxing. Halfway through now and it doesn't seem like it at all. The little bells or shimmers on the drums or whatever sound like tinkling rain, and then the drumming gets faster and more intense, and I think a keyboard is coming in now with wind sounds, birdsong, few other effects. And now we're twelve minutes in. Some beautiful, gentle Fender Rhodes sliding in with flutes, the percussion slowing and taking something of a backseat. This is just lovely. Sliding out now to its end and there's nothing of that I did not enjoy. Oh, and more than thirty seconds of water flowing. A perfect ending. On to track two. Track 2(Love) Wow, this is different! A big church organ chord booming like something out of a catholic mass, with rippling, shimmering cymbals; very portentous. Actually sounded like bagpipes coming there about the second minute... probably not. This kind of reminds me of Bach and those grand, powerful concertos and fugues he would compose. Soft percussion coming in now, but more as a background than anything else, just kind of breaking up the organ sound, which I read is a medieval cathedral organ: certainly has that sound to it. You could imagine some one playing this in a European church in a prayer to ask God to save them from the Plague. Sounds like flute coming in now, this would be about the sixth minute. The percussion is taking over a little bit now as we head into the ninth minute, the organ still droning away in the background like a benevolent grandparent watching the children play. This continues more or less up to minute fourteen, where the percussion drops almost completely away and the organ comes back to the fore, stamping its authority all over the piece. Oh, and now it's over. Well that was very pleasant. End result: With only two tracks I guess I was either going to like it or not. I must say it was quite enlightening and very enjoyable. So, Love or Hate? That would be Love, for sure Chances of a full review: Again, 0/10 as I think I've said all I could say above.
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