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Review By: Michael Chocholak
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Date: 05/02/2004
Bowed vibration swallowing the surrounding silence in metallic blossoms carving out a sonic womb. Grazed boundaries casting off embers that flare up momentarily and fade. Very minimal, and perhaps it is the manner in which the sound itself is approached and produced, but there is an essence here that engages you. Assertive ambience.
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Review By: Michael Chocholak
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Date: 05/02/2004
I'll scratch my funk wherever it itches. I had to claw my way (through some also cool tracks) to the bottom of the page to chew on this one. No nonsense bottom. Tasty timbres. Choice breaks. Moves and shakes. There's nothing startling going on here sonically or rhythmically, although there are some really nice touches. It sounds like familiar turf. BUT everything is in the right place at the right time. Very. Nice, nice, excellent funky.
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Review By: Michael Chocholak
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Date: 04/30/2004
A hypnotizing soundscape minimal in styling & economic in compositional components. The ominous persistence of tribal drumming shape shifts its way through the thick almost impenetrably humid mists to where you are mired up to the neck in reptilian radio decay. Mixed down like that feeling you get in the morning when you can’t remember the dream you just had - which may be a good thing.
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Review By: Michael Chocholak
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Date: 04/24/2004
Phil conjures an orchestral tempest of electro serrations and murmurs, now pulsing, now undulating and gyrating, as an sonitechture for Vinny Golia’s satisfyingly eloquent flute pyrotechnics. Each time I listen, I hear it almost visually - as if there were a character on a stage ; Bauhaus or a kiri or kuru Noh production - and although each time the tale remains an enigma, it never fails to draw me in.
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Review By: Michael Chocholak
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Date: 04/24/2004
Arpeggioed harmonics and aurora washes dance like sun sprites on the water. Patterns rise and formulate out of the randomness and fall away again realizing a natural feeling ebb and flow to the whole piece. For the most part, the underpinning rhythms are nicely subdued so that they define an almost subconscious pace without getting in the way of the heliography, although there are points where they become generic enough to become conflicting and distracting. Actually I think the rhythm could have been dispensed with entirely - the guitar work, while certainly not original, is graceful and expressive and carries the piece on it's own.
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