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░ Sagan - Unseen Forces-CD
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RIP DATE.: 14.11.2004 QUALITY..: VBRkbps/44.1kHz
ENCODER..: 3.90.3 GENRE....: Electronic
SOURCE...: Satellite YEAR.....: 2004
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Sagan - Unseen Forces
Occam's Razor is a theoretical dictum which
states that if there are two hypotheses that
explain data equally well, one should choose
the simplest. Unseen Forces, the new album from
Sagan, breaks this rule with maniacal glee.
Consisting of electronic folk-heroes Blevin
Blectum, J. Lesser and Jon Leidecker as well as
video artist Ryan Junell, the group's music
explores the cosmos with playful curiosity and
fuck-all bravado. Their namesake, Carl Sagan,
was both a disciplined scientific mind and a
charismatic maverick; a man who transcended
cold data through his infectious sense of
discovery. Sagan the group do much the same,
letting the painstaking process of electronic
composition become an opportunity to discover
new perspectives in sound.
Stodgy, emotionally distant mechanics have no
place here - this crew recasts the intelligence
behind the cosmos as a 6-year-old child with a
fistful of chocolate. Tracks like ôEyes Fixed
in Wonderment Upon the End of the Cosmic
Calendar,ö throb and pulse with blasts of
static and acoustic piano interlaced with
gabbered-out drum hits and squeaky, treated
voices. Occasionally the compositions veer into
analog territory, with fat Vangelis-esque synth
pads pulled through a cosmic wormhole. Time is
elastic in Sagan's universe; there's no beat
mapping here. Tone and rhythm take the shape of
random quantum variants: The music isn't so
much composed as stumbled across.
Unseen Forces maps out some strange vectors;
the closest we come to a typical electronic
beat is on the track ôClosest Living
Relations.ö The cut sounds like late-'70s
Talking Heads refashioned as characters in a
Douglas Adams novel. At one point the song
veers into faux-metal territory, and Sagan's
cover is blown. This slight misdirection
reduces their heady explorations to sideshow
contrivance, but it's thankfully brief.
The accompanying DVD is pretty fun: The chapter
menu is designed as an old View-Master slide,
and the opening sequence features a Carl Sagan
look-alike marveling at the beautiful
complexity of dandelion spores. The group's
humor becomes evident in a short scene that
takes place outside a club; a twentysomething
hipster is explaining to a bored girl that the
band inside isn't ôclassic rock.ö Either way,
she appears unimpressed. The music in each
vignette is still quite compelling, but a dance
routine consisting of people in a dark room
scuttling about with flashlights gets old
pretty fast. The sample of Pat Benatar's ôLove
is a Battlefieldö deserves kudos, though.
It was probably a good idea to include the DVD;
it'll help those with a lower threshold for
spazzed-out electronica to find footing through
farce. J. Lesser and Blevin Blectum have always
demonstrated a mischievous humor in their
recorded work, and Ryan Junell's visual element
reinforces their slanted view. Call me
old-fashioned - I still prefer closing my eyes
and slipping on the headphones - but the film
has a campy charm. Who can resist famed
astronomers throwing down over hot new theorems
in cheesy subtitled re-enactments?
Sagan have crafted a satisfying multimedia
experience, but if there's a grand unifying
theory to the work, it's that science is
fun-damental.
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