Artist ....... Rameses III
Album ........ Basilica
Genre ........ Ambient
Source ....... CDDA
Label ........ Important Records
Catalog Nr. .. IMPREC182
Release Date . May-24-2008
Tracks ....... cd1: 4 cd2: 5
Length ....... cd1: 38:45 cd2: 40:50
Quality ...... VBRkbps 44.1kHz
Mode ......... Joint-Stereo
Encoder ...... LAME 3.97 final
Size ......... 105,4 MB
Link ......... http://www.importantrecords.com/releases/imprec178_release_page.htm
Rls Notes
Basilica is Rameses III┤s eagerly anticipated
follow-up to
their acclaimed release Honey Rose
(Important), Basilica is a double album of
live recordings of new Rameses material
accompanied by re-interpretations of those
same recordings by contemporaries Robert
Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky and
Astral Social Club.
Each artist approached to contribute to the
Basilica disc was given free range to
experiment with the live files, to re-invent
and re-interpret the recordings as they saw
fit.
Minimalist sound-sculptor Keith Berry rolled
out the slow-motion waterfalls of Basilica
and gave the album an early focus and
provided inspiration for the glacial artwork.
Gregg Kowalsky played the Rose Blood remix as
part of his own
performance at the OVERLAP 02 event in San
Francisco using its tuned sinewave
oscillators, cassette tapes and loops to
induce, to quote the man himself, "a
psychoacoustic listening experience".
Our subtle textures were pushed way into the
red when noise veteran Neil Campbell
sandblasted the original tracks into the
howling mirror of Astral Social Club. His
Tigers In The Snake Pit was remixed live in
the very same venue in which it was
originally performed and finessed with some
post-performance layering.
And Robert Horton was open-minded and kind
enough to allow Rameses III to remix his
remix, leading to the gentle trumpet
curlicues and electronic birdsong entwining
the original drone of After The Red Rose.
Although Basilica was originally envisioned
as a single disc album, once the remixes were
complete it slowly became evident that they
should be paired with a disc of live
recordings in order to put the Basilica disc
into context. In contrast to the
heavily-produced and
painstakingly-constructed Rameses studio
albums, all five of the
previously-unreleased tracks on the Origins
disc were recorded directly to stereo at
various venues around London. As such, they
fully represent those moments in performance
where the trio strive to make the most
beautiful music they can.
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# track length
Basilica
01 After the Red Rose 07:49
02 Basilica 06:08
03 Rose Blood 15:55
04 Tigers in the Snake Pit 08:53
Origins
01 Origins I 04:15
02 Origins II 11:30
03 Origins III 07:12
04 Origins IV 12:51
05 Origins V 05:02