This album is the first collaboration between Knox Chandler and Bobby Previte and is every bit as experimental as expected from these two legends. Knox has performed, produced or been a part of among others Psychedelic Furs, Depeche Mode, Grace Jones, Stina Nordenstam, Anton Fier and REM. While Bobby Previte has worked with among others Iggy Pop alongside Jamie Saft and Steve Swallow, Victoria Williams, Zeena Parkins, Sonny Sharrock, Tom Waits and amazingly Julius Eastman, although he isn't mentioned in the Julius Eastman fanzine I bought last weekend.
The album opens with White Horse that has a slow drum intro with the electronic guitar doing all sorts of weird synth like Ribbons of soundtrack noises, that sound a bit like Marty Fogel's solo album Many Heads Bobbing At Last giving this a nice ambient prog feel.
Moonburn sounds like something you'll get on the far side of the moon on a sunny day, the clangers have left you in peace for once.
Until the drums start tapping out morse code messages to send into the far ether.
Hallow isn't at all deathly, this is almost Hari Krishna chanting percussion, with guitar extrusions, weird ellipses, imprecise cadences stolen from odd 70's Jazz fusion records.
Streamtide has the feeling that you're sitting by the banks of a tidal river, far enough upstream that the tidal flow is barely noticeable, this recreates the sound patterns of the nexus at High Tide when the water starts to subside slowly downriver once more.
Lost Moon is for a cloudy rain spattered night, squalling winds howling though the centre, the moon never appearing all night.
Bottom Feeder is full of brown notes and decaying noises from the depths, not nasty enough to soundtrack the last two months but getting there.
Tick Two and pick the correct two to make a perfect musical synthesis into a dream like state, Harp like chimes, tapped tambourines and some peace.
National Tan opens with shakers dispensing that National Tan out of a can, double bass exploring around the shakers, before it slowly smears that tan all over the place, at a sensually slow pace.
The album closes with Pan slow drum messages, across the spectrum, a bell chimes to end this mystical ambient journey.
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