Phenotract - Transient Messages (c) 2007 Souvenir Records
Artist....: Phenotract
Album.....: Transient Messages
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 11
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Souvenir Records
Catalogue#: eleven
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.phenotract.com
Tracklist:
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01 Passage (Intro) 01:06
02 Connections Missed 06:38
03 In Another Life 05:46
04 A Million Colors 05:53
05 Midway 05:03
06 Piece Of Mind 08:07
07 Heightened 05:25
08 At The Sign 05:12
09 Light Towers 05:54
10 Smoothflow 05:28
11 Dissolved In Tides 07:31
Total:89,4 MB / 62:03 min
Release Notes:
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"Transient Messages" is the second official full length album from the
New York City based electronic act Phenotract. Expanding on the
groundwork of the previous album, "Within A Second", the harder tech
sound that dominated that album is taken in a different direction.
Still atmospheric and driving, and at the same time pensive and
introspective, "Transient Messages" cascades and swirls with
soundtrack- type melodies, groove- laden basslines, and both male and
female vocals; all of which give the music a comtemporary electronica
"neo-pop" sound. With the addition of a female vocalist, Niabi
Caldwell, (who sings on about half of the songs with Eric Shans)
Phenotract has now fully illuminated the musical path that was only
hinted at before. Running across the contrasts of lights and darks,
tracks such as "A Million Colors" and "Dissolved In Tides" launch
themselves into the heavens, whereas songs like "Heightened" and "In
Another Life" (produced by Isaac Glendening of Cesium 137) take things
more into the subterranean world that has historically characterized
Phenotract's sound. :)