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[dmc]
Doom Generation Noises
────[rlsnfo]────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Artist : U Totem
Title : Strange Attractors
Year : 1994
Label : Cuneiform Records
Genre : Avantgarde
Type : Album
────[ripnfo]────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Ripped on: 09.23.2007
Ripper : DGN
Quality : avgkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Size : 64,8 MB
Playtime : 46:49 min
Grabber : Eac
Encoder : Lame 3.97 V2 New
────[trax]──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
01. No Mo Ippon 02:51
02. Daikon Batake 02:11
03. Ginger Tea 05:59
04. Another June Sky 04:34
05. Karucha Shokku 06:19
06. January Sky 02:10
07. Purple Smoke 04:02
08. Tipps' 911 00:43
09. Agent White Fox 03:14
10. Chen's Gate 03:28
11. Postcard 02:16
12. Redskin 03:05
13. Another Ginger Tea 05:57
────[Release Note]──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1060405&BAB=Z
I decided to order this disc after finding a copy of U Totem's
self-titled first album in a used CD store and liking it a lot.
I guess this band fits into the category of RIO, although I'm
still not sure I have a good grip on exactly what makes
something RIO. Generally, it seems things that sound highly
"experimental" and don't fit into any other categories get
described as RIO. If that's the case, then this disc definitely
qualifies.
On first listen, the album seems to be almost totally random
sounding. There's very little that approaches a regular rhythm,
although there are a couple notable exceptions. I'm not talking
about odd time signatures here, I'm talking about no signature.
Well, there's probably one buried under there somewhere, but
with all the sudden stops and starts, and changes of tempo,
it's not something you could ever tap your foot to.
The melodies sound very angular and disjointed. It sounds like
they're making it up as they go along, but since the
instruments and vocals often all follow the same melody it must
have been planned out in advance. And in fact, after listening
to the album several times, it seems to develop an internal
logic all its own. Things don't sound nearly as strange after
repeated listens. The closest comparison I can make to other
music would be Frank Zappa's synclavier work, especially the
Civilization Phase III album.
Speaking of the instruments, one of the things I like the most
about U Totem is the instrumentation. In addition to the usual
rock guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, the band features
bassoon, flute and piccolo, as well as the occasional saxophone
and clarinet. There's just something about the sound of those
first three instruments blending in with the standard rock
instruments that I like. Especially the bassoon. It sounds a
lot better than one would expect.
The disc is technically a concept album. The CD booklet
contains a short story written by James Grigsby, who seems to
be the mastermind behind the band ù he's credited with all
words and music, as well as playing guitar, bass, computer,
tapes and performing one of the speaking roles. The story
itself is almost as disjointed and strange as the music - I had
to read the whole thing twice before I could wring the sense
out of it. It tells the tale of a group of characters (and an
object) who are "strange attractors" ù they keep turning up in
each other's lives. The main character seems to be a man named
Edison, but it's hard to tell, since the story is told from
several perspectives. Anyway, we follow the life of Edison,
jumping from his adulthood back to his childhood and then
forward to his old age. Meanwhile characters he encounters in
various ways (a hooker, childhood "friends", business partners,
etc) end up tied together through other plot lines. And then
the whole story is given a strange, science-fiction twist by a
character named Mr. Tipps ù a shadowy, big-league businessman
with government and military ties who can bend people to his
will by taking over their bodies with a strange purple smoke.
Very X-Files.
The story is only tangentially connected to the music though.
Each track on the CD is named after one of the sections of the
story, and the vocals found on a few tracks are mostly just
reciting pieces of the story, sung along with the angular
melodies.
In summary, this is a very dense, twisting, difficult to
decipher album, based on a dense, twisting, difficult to
decipher story. It's definitely not for the feint of heart, and
those who tend to stick to symphonic prog should probably stay
away. But if you're feeling adventurous and are the type who
likes an album that requires the listener to play it several
times and work to dig out its secrets, then this disc presents
a worthwhile challenge. Still, I've got to admit that I'm not
as fond of it as I am the first U Totem album. It's just as
odd, but seems more structured than this one. I'd recommend
starting there before trying Strange Attractors.
review by Bob Eichler ù undated
────[Group Notes]───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Dgn is around since 1998...
After a few years, a few rippers who left, a few who joined, people
greeting,people yelling, people threatening, people helping, people
watching, we're still enjoying our aime: Let ppl listen to what they
are gonna buy b4 they pay a single penny.
There have been also some people and groups that helped out during the
last few years, maybe it's because of them that (against all odds) we
are still releasing and doing well, those know who they are, and we'll
thank forever.
We remind our beloved public, we're against all kind of distrubution,
don't search our rips neither in your preferred XDcc channel, nor in
your local 127.0.0.1 p2p program, We do not distribute ! But it's not
nice to buy when you do not know what you're buying.
As a matter of fact, DGN is a private group, and do not need rippers,
fast or slow shells, traders, t1+ sites, couriers, prewhores, and hw
suppliers, we need only a nice chalet in Switzerland/Canada or a Villa
in the Caribbean sea where to listen to some chillout music.
If you can supply any of those, for free, feel free to contact us for
an application form.
Remember to support the artists.
DGN Crew, 2003
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Nfo file by [dmc]/DGN using Elton's and Morgoth's tools