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ARTiST....: saroos
TiTLE.....: saroos
LABEL.....: alien transistor
GENRE.....: electronic
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 51,8 MB
REL.DATE..: 09-24-2006
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01] dead days 04:48
02] this ain't no place 04:04
03] off the valley 01:24
04] during this course 03:47
05] everyone was there 04:10
06] videos & vehicles 04:03
07] troubled sleep 03:48
08] all we see 04:24
09] one 04:16
10] noone 03:48
TOTAL TiME : 38:32 min
It's a real bay - music lying calmly in continuous
move-ment, open and harboured at the same time.
Saroos' maximal minimalism disproves the notion
that elec-tronically adept drummers prefer
affective beats to filigree procreation. At least
here it is the other way round: Soft slivers of
sequences, mysterious, sub-cutaneous.
Where toms pound the kickdrum, a buzzingly
beautiful vault of rhythm is upraised. Filigree
bevies of staccato striae and clearly structured
soundmixtures. Sometimes a metronome ticks
through, then you hear the echoing detachment of
well known clusters. What is happening here is
what we call a stream. In the deep substream,
close to the ground, Saroos' significantly
accentuated soundmaterial and immaculate
guitar-branchage drift towards percussive rock.
The distance to the surface is shortened
intermittently, the music led into calmer basins,
only to take the next segment deeper still. A
water-sprite awakes with a start, it is Anticon's
alias learning "DuringThis Course", followed by
the fiction of what was just to be heard: on
hearing "Everyone Was There", the pixies of Andrew
Weatherall's "Sabres Of Paradise" meet for a
shadowy tryst, and through "One"'s veil of algae,
even Slint's ghosts are to be seen. The
threatening tangle back there, was it just an
effect of "Troubled Sleep"? What is played, what
is acoustic, which antenna is transmitter of what?
Saroos' world develops according to an intuitively
planned inspiration: not in rank growth, not like
a swarm, but rather calmly, avoiding the safe road
for a chasm, doing brilliantly in a fog.
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