Re: (idm) wagon christ news & more...

From Brad Shelton
Sent Tue, May 5th 1998, 14:27

>>- - July 28:  OWL: Remixed Low (Vernon Yard)
>>   a collection of remixes of Low by Neotropic, Porter Ricks, Thomas
>>   Koner, Jimmy Somerville, and Tranquility Bass=20
>>
>>BTW: Does anybody know anything about the aforementioned
>>OWL release? I'm not familiar with OWL but the release sounds
>>interesting.

>The band is Low, actually. OWL seems to be the title of the release. I'm
>not too familiar with Low, but from what I know, they're sort of
>post-rock-ish. I've heard comparisons to Codeine which may or may not be
>valid. 


Right, the band is Low.. I've got one of their records, 'The Curtain
Hits the Cast'. I picked it up after hearing their name mentioned in one
of the 'ambient guitar' threads on the ambient list. 

I was initially expecting a shoegazer(esque, at least)-type thing, but
on this release the sound is ambient /acoustic/ guitar. The songs are
almost entirely slow, many times beatless pieces of floating acoustic
guitar and half-spoken vocals. Some of the tracks do build on the
elements to add minimal rhythm (the picture of a lone snare drum on the
cover of the album sums up their approach). It's actually quite good-
well done guitar/vocal music with ambient(esque, at least) production.

It seems that their other releases are probably not as sparse.. I seem
to recall their earlier material compared to Slowdive's last couple of
releases. At any rate, the forthcoming remix project looks very
interesting. A great surprise.. thanks for the info, Lance.

Brad Shelton
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