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review by Dene Bebbington The first time I played this album the opening track made me worry that I'd received a non-musical and weird CD. The first track, "A Last Supper," contains crackling noises like on an old vinyl LP while a narrator says some pretty bizarre things and another voice laughs in the background, this then changes a bit with dialogue between the narrator and an electronically treated voice. Thankfully, the next track starts the music on what is probably the shortest album I've ever encountered - it clocks in at less than twenty-six minutes. A little on the experimental side, the seven tracks following the strange opener are not the "run of the mill" kind of ambient music. Making significant use of bass and guitar as well as various effects and voices the listener is treated to fairly short sonic paintings that are rhythmic and a little melodic in places, though the overriding impression is perhaps one of abstraction. Unlike a lot of ambient music, this didn't create for me a particular atmosphere or mental images; in a way it's like the aural equivalent of a surrealistic painting, but one that isn't overly peculiar. While …an ambient extraction falls into a category of music that I would describe as "an acquired taste," it should appeal to those who are looking for something different, and guitar rather than synth oriented. |
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