- Indie pop/rock
- Art rock
- Space pop
- Glam pop/rock
- Alternative pop/rock
- Live recording
- Psychedelic pop
Year: 2011
- Post-rock
- Improvised music
- Avant-rock
- Post-classical
- Drone
- Chamber rock
- Experimental rock
- Live recording
- Minimalism
- Leftfield
Year: 2002
- Improvised
music
- Avant-garde
- Electro-acoustic
- Live session
- Experimentalism
Comment:
a first thought of mine was it is music for cello, and live
electronics. However, I was totally wrong because instead of a cello
Daniel Barbiero plays a bowed double bass, and Ken Moore employs a
tam-tam (it is a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate
that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick). It embraces seven
improvised compositions full of space, and time, full of different
frequencies and changes within it. Even if one used to think of it to
as an austere one because of a minimal amount of instruments it is in
fact a far more than a sum of its initial parts. It is saturated with
grayish delay effects, achromatic reverberations, some gong-induced
slams and mournful drones beneath it. In the terms of metal as an
element, it is filled with different sort of clattery, rusty grinding
and reddish-tinged rattles. It must be called synaesthesia, if you
hear colours or at least the spectra of them. This could be a good
soundtrack for a contemporary gothic motion picture, at least to
depict some (horrendous) scenes within it. As I understood the tracks
are not recorded in one and the same place, not during the one
tenure. The issue is a part of the discography of Chicago, US-based
experimental imprint pan y rosas discos. Very intriguing outing
indeed.
- Noise rock
- No Wave
- Experimental rock
- Trance rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Alternative rock
- Live session
- Avant-rock
- Indie rock
Year: 2015
- Funk house
- House
- Electronic pop
- Acid house
- Electro pop
- Alternative dance
- Electro-house
Year: 2008
- Dreamwave
- Abstract
- Ambient drone
- Space music
- Kosmische Musik
- Indietronica
- Alternative
- Synthwave
- Ambient
- Electronic music
- Post-rock
- Ambient rock
Comment:
sometime in the first half of the 90s when Sun Ra left Earth for
Saturn forever, to arrive at his birth place he also left vacant his
place on the blue planet. By listening to spatial music by Colorado,
US-based artist Drew Miller aka Brother Saturn, and enjoying the
quality and quantity of his sound he could be an excellent candidate
to replace the legend. Unstable Land is a beatific progression
through extended and stretched chords and drones being saturated with
vibrations. He exploits both guitars and apparently modular
synthesisers to fortify the soundscape. At times there can be drawn
parallels upon Slowdive's abstract development Pygmalion, at
times upon M Geddes Gengras, at times upon the most hazy moments by
Ducktails, at times upon epic still life by Pan American at Quiet
City, however, the artist does have his own subtle touch and
sublime approach among the other ones. I guess Miller's proficiency
used to come forth through a dense creative act while drifting
between the formalism and sensual (emotive) music. Indeed, one
element does not exclude another one in his theoretical setup. Maybe
there is also up invisible magic needed to unify the both elements
into an enchanting whole. The finishing track Nature`s
Reckoning is more mundane in comparison to the other compositions
due the stomping mid-tempo rhythm which is accompanied by a distinct
guitar pattern. All in all, the result is worth to be added to a list
of the best albums in 2016. It was announced Unstable Lands to be his last issue on We Are All Ghosts. By the way, in recent times the artist
issued a couple of brand new ones called Descent Into Madness,
and Light! Joy! Ascent! I See The Stars In Your Heart.
- Avant-garde
- Musique concrète
- New Age
- Electronic music
- Crossover
- Acousmatic music
- Field recording
- Experimentalism
- Post-classical
- Art music
Year: 2016
