Saul_Stokes-Vast-2006-MUSiQ

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2006-09-18

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      █▀ ▓██▀    ARTIST...[ Saul Stokes                          ▀██▓ ▀█
      █ ▓▓██     TITLE....[ Vast                                  ██▓▓ █
      ▄ ▓██      LABEL....[ The Foundry (FOU25)                    ██▓ ▄
        ▓██▄     GENRE....[ Ambient                               ▄██▓
         ▓███    ENCODER..[ LAME v3.90.3 --alt-preset standard   ███▓
       ▄██▓███   K/BITS...[ 197 kbps avg                        ███▓██▄
      ▓████████  MODE:....[ Joint Stereo                       ████████▓
     ▓███▀▀ ▀██  TRACKS...[ 7                                  ██▀ ▀▀███▓
    ▓▓██▀ ██▄ █  TIME.....[ 61:46                              █ ▄██ ▀██▓▓
    ▓███ ██▓█ ▓  SIZE.....[ 91.78 MB                           ▓ █▓██ ███▓
    ▓▓█ ▄█▓▓█ ▒  SOURCE...[ CD                                 ▒ █▓▓█▄ █▓▓
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   ▓▓▓█ ▒░▒▒▒    RIP.DATE.[ 2006-09-17                           ▒▒▒░▒ █▓▓▓
   ▓▓██ ░░░░░    REL.DATE.[ 2006-03-00                           ░░░░░ ██▓▓
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   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     only number 5 mixes into 6 so ripped as          ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     indivdual tracks                                 ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     saul stokes is a musician from oakland           ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     california. described by his listeners as one    ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     of today's most eclectic electronic musicians,   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     stokes has been producing and releasing his own  ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     angle of electronic music for over 15 years.     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     stokes creates music using an array of modular   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     "hand forged electronics to achieve his          ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     signature sound." an avid live performer,        ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     stokes has performed across the u.s. and         ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     canada.  stokes' returns to the music scene      ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     with vast, a showcase for his personal and       ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     unique take on electronica                       ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     while vast fits comfortably within the           ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     continuum of stokes' work, this new album also   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     explores fresh permutations of style and         ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     approach. these compositions are lyrical and     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     harmonically rich, built on the idiosyncratic    ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     sound of his homemade equipment. each track      ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     contains a wealth of aural ideas, and these      ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     layers of detailed sound retain a clarity that   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     allows the listener to follow all the            ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     individual strands that stokes has woven into    ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     the tapestry of vast. this is a soundtrack for   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     something seen with the mind's eye - a theme     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     for the immensity of imagination                 ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     stokes' sound bears undeniable connections to    ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     the electronic music pioneers of the 70s         ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     (tonto's expanding headband, kraftwerk, jean     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     michel jarre) but also ties into threads from    ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     the 80s post-industrial sound, the 90s           ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     chill-out electronica resurgence, and the 21st   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     century pop-ambient aesthetic. with a pervasive  ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     melodic sense stokes is able to channel the      ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     strange and deep sounds of his "hand forged"     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     instruments (as he refers to them) into complex  ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     and evolving compositions, pieces which move     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     easily from idea to idea, often ending up in     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     unexpected places. the structures are            ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     unpredictable, one moment pop-like, the next     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     textural and meditative, and the next shifting   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     into an impetuous percussive riff. vast is       ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     filled with a multitude of sonic ideas, but its  ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     best quality may be the space left within the    ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     music for the listener. it is possible to        ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     inhabit these pieces and find yourself in a      ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     place completely new and other, yet somehow      ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     familiar                                         ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     vast is stokes' foundry debut, and his eighth    ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     album. past releases include 2003's critically   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     acclaimed fields, the live recording radiate,    ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     and a number of other titles on the hypnos,      ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     databloem, and greenhouse music labels. stokes   ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     has appeared previously on several foundry       ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     projects, including sub.terra, bibimbap, and     ██▓ █▓▒ ░
   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     jonathan hughes' fluidities                      ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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   ░ ▒▓█ ▓██     http://www.saulstokes.com                        ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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