From Tom Millar Sent Mon, Jun 21st 1999, 23:21
From Tom Millar Sent Mon, Jun 21st 1999, 23:21
Moonlight wrote: > >Nobukazu Takemura: Scope > >Thrill Jockey THRILL 068 > > > >Bill: You should call it Modem vs. Orchestra. > >NT: Literalist. > >(pause) > >Bill: Help. I've been hypnotized. I can't stop paying rapt attention to > >this music. > >NT: (evil mastermind style) Ha Ha Ha Haa. > Fun review to read. My copy hasn't come yet (f***ing CDNOW!). Curious, > though... are you saying that this album's good depsite sounding like > orchestra meets modem, or that it's bad but will confuse a lot into > thinking its good? The patterns are odd. The sounds are odd. But it's arranged in such a way so that before long you stop listening to the oddities and convince yourself you've discovered the hidden cipher he's using to build his tracks. Then he proves you wrong and you start all over again trying to decode the thing once more. It's _interesting_, and not in the damned-with-faint-praise style of interesting. A couple of years ago I would have dismissed this as random beep trash not worth pressing, which is how Bill sees it at first. Then he sits there for a while and finds himself trapped in his seat trying to do what I just described above. The whole thing made me feel kind of like a neurophysiologist trying to connect seemingly random synapse firings with observable behavior- it's definitely not improvised and you instinctually know it's not, but damned if you know how you know. No D whatsoever, I for days on end, and I know it's got M but where it comes from only Takemura knows. Tom