--On 09 December 2007 21:42 -0800 Kiya Babzani <denial@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
quoted 4 lines I was merely saying that it's refreshing to hear an IDM album that didn't> I was merely saying that it's refreshing to hear an IDM album that didn't
> feel the need to include analog instruments in the recording because that
> seems to the be status quo for any other artist within the last five years
> or so.
I know what is meant here, and am likewise quite happy to entertain music
involving guitars that just *happens to have* guitars in it rather than
flaunting its 'guitarity' as some form of injection of we're-so-worthy
'organic' and/or (bogus) 'musicianly' credibility (indirectly diminishing
synthesizers and acousmatics. etc), or just jumping on the
post-indietronica bandwagon.
About 6 months back I observed, at the start of a review of FAX's
"Primario" (Static Discos):-
quoted 1 line The electric guitar is central to Primario, which pronouncement from> The electric guitar is central to Primario, which pronouncement from
Fax honcho Ruben A. Tamayo should alert us that all is not well in the
house of Fax. Not that theres anything inherently wrong with electric
guitar, just that this wielding of it as some kind of significative totem
bodes ill. And, as it turns out, ill-suspicions are confirmed as he strays,
previously minimal-tech and microhouse-trained, into unsalubrious downtempo
waters on this his third album.[...]<
I do like "Dusker" quite a bit too, and its feeling that it just happens to
have some guitar on it as mere incidental.
alan
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