Re: (idm) Gerd Reviews Please?

From gg2g4ink
Sent Mon, Nov 10th 1997, 01:20


On Sun, 09 Nov 1997, lwtcdi <xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
>someone wrote...
>
>> anyone have an opinion/review of
>> This Touch Is Greater Than Moods?
>
>I second this. Please, someone review this. 

long-timers have already seen this, but...


GERD
This Touch Is Greater Than Moods
Universal Language UK EVOGD 03 CD

[first crisium appearance
nautiloidea
quare scent spangled arcanum
vulcan princess (sensurreal new funk mix)
carxan 7.1.
carxan 7.2.
century city (sensurreal new funk mix)
trendor vualda
austaris solalia (sensurreal new jazz mix)
osiris' starshaft]

>From Universal Being to ... Universal Language, without abandoning that gorgeous 
skyscape vista. Gerd (Gert-Jan Bijl from Sensurreal) has jumped around from 
label to label, but he has picked the ideal landing strip. TTIGTM feels like an 
extension of Reload's "Le Soleil et La Mer," or a textural cross-pollination of 
the Jedi Knights' lewd electro-funk and Global Communications' schizoid spectral 
ambient drift/groin-slammin' Deep House moodswings. Gerd marks his own sound 
with intricate bass and beats, just this side of 'artcore' Dn'B and inflected by 
Acid Jazz, HipHop, and the deepest shades of Detroit and Chicago. the album has 
a cumulative effect, becoming more attractive with every new track. two tracks 
co-written with Dirk-Jan Hanegraaff ("Vulcan Princess" and "Century City") are 
the most immediate grabbers. Gerd's basslines perform tirelessly throughout, 
like acrobats dazzling the crowd with sweeping high-to-low-and-back uneven bar 
manuevers. "Austaris Solalia" adds filtered Fender Rhodes and live bass (by
Jarno Verhoeven) to Gerd's lucent electric piano and synths. TTIGTM really does 
get better as it progresses; and by the time "Osiris' Starshaft" rolls in, 14+ 
minutes long and a glistening nova of extraterrestrially funked-up 'epic' House, 
it's a pretty damn impressive album. (gg/ exclusive to IDM-L)
cheers!

GuerillaG2-G4/ gg
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