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r e l e a s e . i n f o :
Artist.....: Edward Ka-Spel
Title......: A Long Red Ladder To The Moon
Rip Date...: Apr-22-2006 Cat.No.....: mt090a
Style......: Electronic Label......: Beta Lactam Ring
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 81,4 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s :
Edward Ka-Spel is the guy who inspired the musicians who
inspired the musicians playing the electronic music you are
listening to today -- and as A Long Red Ladder to the Moon
demonstrates, he isn't done yet.
This time around, Ka-Spel gets quiet. His music has always had a
reticent sort of "outsider" vibe -- the same feeling you get
from the strange kid who always watches the action from a
distance -- and it's stronger than ever here. Ka-Spel's
collaborative efforts, the Legendary Pink Dots and Tear Garden
among them, have masked their distance with complex
arrangements, but on A Long Red Ladder, everything unnecessary
is stripped away. Opener "Black Widow's Kiss" is built upon a
simple rhythm loop, a bass drone and a couple of blips. Because
of this spartan arrangement, the whine that comes in midway
through the tune becomes a massive, jarring force, despite its
low volume and restrained application. The album's centerpiece,
twelve minute juggernaut "Gone Subterranean (Parts 1 and 2)",
goes through long passages of barely audible white noise, so its
piano melody, when you finally reach it, literally shimmers.
Even more upbeat songs like "Mechanical Sam" only earn this
designation in comparison to the material that surrounds them.
"Sam" has next to no percussion, but derives its propulsion from
an understated bass note pattern. In most songs, this pattern
would fade into the background -- but on A Long Red Ladder, with
so few other elements to hide it, it quickly draws you into its
gravitational pull.
This, alone, is enough to distinguish Ka-Spel from the current
wave of over-detailed, overly noisy electronic music. His vocals
are another key difference. Ka-Spel's detached, almost deranged
delivery has become a hallmark of dark electronic music, knocked
off by countless would-be Metropolis signees. However, whereas
his imitators sound bored, Ka-Spel sounds distant. His vocal
lines come through as if they were received on a vintage radio
-- compressed and crackly and sagging with the weight of
uncertain history. This distinction is critically important:
vocals typically give music its humanity, distinguishing
electronic music from avant garde experimentation. Ka-Spel,
however removed he may seem, communicates a very human
detachment; that's why his music remains vital, exciting and
relevant after twenty years in the game.
-Ron Davies @ splendidezine.com
The Legendary Pink Dots' Edward Ka-Spel brings us Long Red
Ladder To The Moon, an album's worth of offbeat,
industrial-esque yet sometimes jazzy avant-rock stuff; it's got
a melodic aspect but a far more experimental and atmospheric
edge. There's a dark quality that runs the course of the disc,
provoking a sense of foreboding evil but keeping things vague
and merely menacing. Some might tag this as "outsider folk" or
"experimental psych folk," but that hardly prepares you for what
you'll pay witness to. At its most accessible (and for a
LPD-associated record, this is very poppy), Ka-Spel treats us to
Cabaret Voltaire-esque electronics mixed with deadpan vocals
("Mechanical Sam"); other parts, meanwhile, are less heavy on
the melody ("Black Widow's Kiss," "Never Say Never".) At the far
end, we have the more experimental end of things - "Flipside"
and its noisily desperate rush, the extended soundscape of "Gone
Subterranean (Parts 1 and 2)", the manic and experimental record
highlight "Treehugger"... At its simplest, I still treat this as
a record whose main imperative is to convey a strong sense of
atmosphere. Long Red Ladder is the soundtrack to seeing
mysterious dark figures in the corners of your field of vision,
but having them disappear just as soon as you turn your head.
-Matt Shimmer @ indieville.com
Together with The Silverman and Niels van Hoorn Edward Ka-Spel
forms the fantastic band The Legendary Pink Dots. A band who
during the last twenty-five years build up a gigantic oeuvre and
is still going strong during these days. But as a oneself
respecting musician does they also make solo-albums.
Edward Ka-Spel can be called the most productive solo-artist of
The Legendary Pink Dots. Many albums where formed by his hands
and A Long Red Ladder to the Moon is the last one in the row.
One can say the solo-albums of Ka-Spel got a lot in common with
the regular Pink Dots albums but as The Pink Dots made it over
the years quiet clear the have a unique sound, there is nothing
wrong in the way Ka-Spel continues in this fashion. Beautiful
dreams I like to call them, beautiful dreams with surrealistic
landscapes drawn by a bare-footed painter. Landscapes no one can
see but by listening a glimpse can be seen. A glimpse is al we
need to see, the beauty is great.
With each new album Edward Ka-Spel grants us again and again a
window into his psyche, but we never find out what really makes
him tick. We never see all the way through the veils and mist,
it will be a journey on the long red ladder to the moon. It's
not the destination that makes it interesting, it's the journey
where we do it for.
-gothtronic.com
Special tip of the hat to our friends at FWYH, Radial, i8, BCC
and BEX.
p l a y l i s t :
01 black widows kiss 07:25
02 mechanical sam 05:38
03 flipside 06:34
04 hey rainman 08:06
05 gone subterranean (parts 1 and 2) 12:05
06 it's just a job 05:35
07 never say never 06:39
08 treehugger (parts 1 and 2) 06:13
58:15 min
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