Thus spake Edward Pond:
quoted 13 lines a couple of years ago i picked up luke slater's seventh plain, _my wise>
> >a couple of years ago i picked up luke slater's seventh plain, _my wise
> >yellow rug_, and was absolutely captivated... has he done anything since
> >then? anything recently? i know he has other releases, but they're not
> >easy to find, it seems. has he done other projects under similar names?
>
> That sounds like exactly my position too. I love MYWR and really wanted to
> get some more stuff by the guy. He released 'Shades Amaze' concept EP a
> while ago on GPR which is the last I've got of his 7th Plain work. I'm pretty
> sure that in the last couple of months he released a new EP as 7th Plain
> on GPR - 'Tri-cendance' or something like that. I haven't got hold of a copy
> yet.
>
The 7th Plain TRJ-Cendance GENP(X)11 12"
The 7th Plain To Be Surreal GENP(X)16 12"
The 7th Plain Astra-Naut-E GENP(X)19 12"
The 7th Plain Shades Amaze GENP(X)36 12"/CDS
The 7th Plain Four Cornered Room GPRLP/CD/MC3 2xLP/CD/MC
The 7th Plain My Yellow Wise Rug GPRLP/CD/MC8 2xLP/CD/MC
"TRJ-Cendance" is by no means new, let alone a couple of months old.
It is the hardest of the four 7th Plain EPs released on GPR, with very
aggressive and dancefloor-oriented drum programming. "To Be Surreal" is
rather hard to digest; it sounds much like a waypoint between the
previous and next EPs. "Astra-Naut-E" is the most relaxed and melodic
of the four, and includes a reprised version of "Seeing Sense" from
the "Four Cornered Room" full-length. The "Shades Amaze" concept EP
collects some remixes of the track and offers nothing spectacular.
"Four Cornered Room" and "My Yellow Wise Rug" are both well-balanced
and good-sounding albums. Though the sounds on "Four Cornered Room" are
a bit more muddy than on "My Yellow Wise Rug," as a concept it is more
solid.
It is indeed a pity that GPR has taken a long vacation which seems to
have become permanent. They should have at least had the decency to
release the Nev album before that.
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