Long, slowly oscillating washes of sound build, ebb and flow, smooth spiralling, spectral drones stretch out for minutes at a time on this expansive double LP, released just three months after 'Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico'. Like its predecessor, ‘Beach Friday’ is an album that evokes and creates space: sonic space, outer space, inner space, wide open space, the space of SF movies and radio plays.
Initially the overall effect is tranquil, the sounds gently, disrupted only by the occasional incidental patter, scrape and chime which lend a degree of atmospheric tension. The endless single chords, rich in shifting tones and textures, have a cumulative effect, and as the album progresses, the sounds become harsher, more ragged, the edges thickened with distortion. The incidentals become more abrasive, too, the scouring of metal on metal slices through deep rumbles and gouges the airwaves.
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The sweetly tempered and immensely spacious ten-minute ‘Stop the Night’ dissipates all tension, however, and returns the listener to a state of floating calm, before the final two tracks that occupy the fourth and final side send the listener back off into space amidst the free-floating particles and waves.
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