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▄▄▓██████▓▄▄▄▄ artist..: re ░ ▀ ▐▓▌
▓███████████████▓▄▄ album...: alms ▓█▓
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▐██████████▓▓▀ ▀▀█▓▄ label..: ▓▀ ███ ▀▓
▓████████▓▓ ▀█▓ genre..: other ███
▓████████▓▌ █▓ ripdate: 10.07.2004 ██▓
▌ ▀▓███████▓▄ ▐▓▌ reldate: 00.00.0000 █▓▒
▓ ▀▀▀▀██████▓▄ █▓▓ ripper.: Team SSR ▓▒░
█▓▄ ▀▀▀▀▀▓▀ ▐█▓▓ quality: VBR - joint stereo ▓▓░
███▓▄ ███▓▌ tracks.: 07 ▒░░
██████▓▄▄ ▄▄███▓▓ encoder: lame 3.90.3 ░░
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▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀ [ RELEASE INFORMATIONS ] ▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄
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▐▓███████▓▓ When Boston avant garde music scholar Aden Evens ▓▓███████▓▌
▓▓███████▓▓ and Montreal-based Constellation Records owner, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Ian Ilavsky, got together back in 1997, they had ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ one thing on their minds: turning sound into a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ musical composition. As they collaborate once ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ again the new full length, Re: Alms, they have ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ not deviated from this formula. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ The front of the CD instructs listeners to ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ "please play as loud as possible." This is not ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ some sort of evil trick to blow up listeners' ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ speakers, ala Merzbow or Prurient, this is ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ neccessary in allowing listeners to fully ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ experience Alms by becoming completely engulfed ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ in its sparse, doom-laden atmospherics. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Unlike most harsher noise acts, Re: did not ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ simply go on an all out aural assault with their ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ manipulation of frequencies and feedback tones, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ but actually composed these seven sound ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ offerings, splicing and assembling field ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ recordings, multi-rate filter-banks, droning ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ loops, sporadic bloops and bleeps, amongst ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ countless other elements. This adds a level of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ not only multilayered depth, but an almost ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ unspoken human quality to it. This is sound ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ sculpture at its most personal. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Re: advise that Alms is not an ambient record. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ While it may not be Brian Eno's Music For ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Airports there are many elements of militaristic ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ dark ambience present (think Sophia and Karjalan ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Sissit without the bombastic, neo-classical ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ influences). While the atmosphere created on ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Alms is engulfing and incredibly dense, the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ actual composition is loop-based, rhythmic ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ minimalism. At times the rudimentary textures ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and oppressive drones are reminiscent of David ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Lynch's Eraserhead, with its often-industrial ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ yet organic sound manipulations. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ The best way to describe Re:'s Alms visually is ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ as a dirty old power plant in the middle of a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ lush, open field. Sometimes Re: is locked in the ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ plant's impenetrable basement surrounded by ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ broken down computers and steel pipelines, while ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ at other times Re: steps outside the factory's ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ gates to take a break and admire the beautiful ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ nature but still remain close enough to inhale ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ the toxic fumes and smell of burning plastic. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ While Re:'s Alms sounds like the type of release ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ that would appear on Cold Meat Industry, as ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ opposed to Constellation; however the humanistic ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ quality as well as the subtle post rock elements ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ in songs like "Orientalism As A Humanism" and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ "Pawk" make it fit perfectly when juxtaposed ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ next to its labelmates Godspeed You! Black ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Emperor, 1-Speed Bike and A Silver Mt. Zion. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓██████▓▓▌ 01. golem ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 02. orientalism as a humanism ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 03. on golden pond ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 04. radio free ramadi ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 05. lasers, tracers, radar drones ▐▓▓██████▓▓
▓▓██████▓▓▌ 06. pawk ▐▓▓██████▓▓
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