SAW IS GREAT...and will always be...
maybe off topic but for lovers of eerie-death ambient stuff:
Coma Virus
Pessary
Valefor
Lustmord
Psychophisicists
......
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>Van: camuscar@globaldialog.com[SMTP:camuscar@globaldialog.com]
>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
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