On Thu, 6 Jun 1996 guyjr@cc.gatech.edu wrote:
quoted 7 lines Lifeforms is an AMBIENT album. The kind that blends and bends and don't set> > Lifeforms is an AMBIENT album. The kind that blends and bends and don't set
> > things in motion. FSOL used excellent production and underwater sounds to
>
> I can assure you, there is _much_ more going on on any one track on this
> album than "underwater sounds". Excellent production, yes, especially when
> they go and sample bats flying out of a cave, slow it down to a snails
> pace, and crank up the reverb.
I have to say that while I have thoroughly enjoyed others of FSOL's
efforts, Lifeforms has always left me quite unimpressed. A great number
of good ideas went into the piecing together of those tracks but it's
always been impressive to me more for the potential it points to than for
anything it achieves on it's own.
The sampling that they has been done, albeit sans their particular brand
of fireworks, over and over since the phonograph was invented. I have
books and books on that if anyone wants titles. Lifeforms pushed it a
little but ends up as a huge mess in my experience.
Same goes for an Otomo Yoshihide disk I picked up a while ago.
Tremendously well though out but a downright miserable execution.
paul.