In a message dated 4/12/99 1:03:54 AM EST, wmh@direct.ca writes:
quoted 2 lines Hey daniel(or anybody else with an opinion...)What is this like?Saw it the> Hey daniel(or anybody else with an opinion...)What is this like?Saw it the
> other day and passed...
to which he who was first called responds:
quoted 4 lines In a word good. A lot like their first album but not as laid back or> In a word good. A lot like their first album but not as laid back or
> ambient (that is not to say it doesn't have ambient like parts; the
> classical passages are still in place). For those that do not know, this
> is not IDM. Experimental post rockish violin themed compositions.
and i, having an opinion, add:
first track is a snoozer. Rick Wakeman plays Mogwai. or sum'pin. stiff as
hell and portentous up the wazoo. no great shakes. their one trick sure wore
thin quickly. second track isn't {as} bad. arching dramatics and
Titanic-sized emotional sweeps. but you could say the same thing about
Danzig's "Black Aria."
not especially experimental either.
unless it would be 'experimental' to reinvent white bread.
mr. e.
np: Musica Elettronica Viva: The Original MEV (IRML)
(as potent a slab of mind-searing electr\improv now as it must have been in
1968.)