From Gomez Ricardo Sent Thu, Jul 9th 1998, 09:04
From Gomez Ricardo Sent Thu, Jul 9th 1998, 09:04
SAW IS GREAT...and will always be... maybe off topic but for lovers of eerie-death ambient stuff: Coma Virus Pessary Valefor Lustmord Psychophisicists ...... >---------- >Van: xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx[SMTP:xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx] >Verzonden: donderdag 9 juli 1998 1:42 >Aan: Ambient >Onderwerp: (amb) SAWII: give it a chance > >I wasn't very impressed by SAWII the first time I heard it, or the second >or third time for that matter. > >One day I was listening to it in the car in the middle of a blinding >snowstorm. That's when I started liking it. > >Annaway, it turned out to be one of my favorite and most-played ambient >CDs ever, I've listened to it for hundreds of hours, especially in the >background at work, and during naptime. > >This is an easy release to dislike at first. It's low-fi, there are >hardly any peaks or valleys to speak of, the sounds are brown and bland, >etc. But it contains some *extremely* cool rhythmic structures, and the >chords/melodies have the most beautiful sentiments that are at once >engaging and very distanced. It has moments of a kind of aching >loveliness that I've never heard from RJ before or since. > >This one really takes a while to work its way in. I hope you listen to it >enough so that you might see what I see in it...its a great sprawling >masterpiece from a genuine individualist. > >Mike >