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Colour of Blood - The Significance of Secrecy COLLAGE Various
Artists - Memento Soundtrack Still In Hollywood: The Return of Concrete Blonde SHORTCUTS
A word about the music I review: I definitely accept submissions and requests for reviews from bands, but I also review music that I like, and submit for the readers' approval. Now, the music I like isn't always new, but sometimes it falls into the category of "New to Me". Or maybe I like an album so much that I can't help telling everyone about it.. I like many independent artists who maybe aren't well-known, but should be, and who have a whole body of work from years past that's just begging to be exposed to the light (or in the case of the darkity-dark stuff I like, hidden from it!). I'm trying to keep the mix of my reviews pretty fresh with new stuff and old stuff, but its all of interest to one type of geek or another. So read onward, geeks, and maybe you'll find among my treasures, some treasure of your own.
True Colour of Blood -The Significance of Secrecy
I found the following definitions in Webster’s New World Dictionary: 1. am’ bi ent: surrounding 2. am’bi ence : an environment or its distinct atmosphere. In terms of music, most people use these words to mean soundscapes that depart from the accepted song-format containingchords, melody, and rhythm. Ambient music is more like a soundtrack for life, the background music of place and time. Just as people have “rules” for song structure, “rules” have been set up for ambient music as well. It tends to be lumped into a category with pretty ethereal music created with synthesizers and samples.
Enough
about the experimental technology used to create this music, you say,
what about the music itself? I for one am quite impressed. The music sounds as good as anything atmospheric I”ve heard come
from a keyboard. The word “damnbient”
has been used to describe music the likes of A Murder of Angels, Zoar,
and The Unquiet Void, and I wouldn’t hesitate to use it on True Colour
of Blood as well This music doesn’t soar. Neither does it drone or grind. It exists, at times like the sound of a planet revolving with its axis off-kilter, the sound of a dying world. It is pervasive, haunting, disturbing. At times the music reminds me of black tape for a blue girl, in their ambient moments, stripped of any melody or sweetness. The tracks “Forlorn” and “Replaced by a Heart of Flesh” are my prime examples of this. Very good for twilight moments of memory and dream. Very visceral too, resonating in the gut. “Twilight State Dream” is exactly as advertised. When I listen to it I imagine the sunset on that same dying world this entire album puts into my mind. I have to come back to the fact that this was created with a guitar … Eric Kesner is evidently a very talented guitarist.
The most beautiful track on this album, to me, was “The Signifcance of Secrecy”. It had a little more motion than the others, and flowed with a hopeful wistfulness. That was followed immediately by the track “Two Shades of Black” which was dreary and dark. Just the way I like it! The use of reverb and distortion was exceptional to create that nervous, curious mood. I found the entire album to be cohesive, beautiful, and original in its concept and execution. I expect very interesting things of True Colour of Blood in the future. Rating: Unconventional Ambience Stars:
Recommended if you Like: Zoar, A Murder of Angels, black tape for a blue girl, The Unquiet Void Track Listing: 1.
Demergo Abyssus Website: www.tcobambient.com
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