Green Isac - Groundrush (c) 2001 Spotted Peccary
Artist....: Green Isac
Album.....: Groundrush
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 12
Genre.....: Ambient
Label.....: Spotted Peccary
Catalogue#: SPM-1301
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/633971
Tracklist:
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01 Groundrush 05:55
02 Wasa 04:32
03 Sufi Too 05:12
04 Glue One 03:52
05 Gmbh 04:36
06 Red Guitar 03:58
07 Is There Any Doubt In Your Mind 04:03
08 Hertz 02:38
09 Caravan 04:52
10 Mifune 05:33
11 Miner 03:37
12 Fleetwood 02:03
Total:71,8 MB / 50:51 min
Release Notes:
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Ethno-Techno meets New Age Electronic in this creative and
other-worldly crossover new release by the acclaimed duo Green Isac.
Trance dance rhythms underscore melodic motifs of ethnic acoustic and
electronic instruments, laced with ambient elements and deep field
textures. Lushness that grooves.
Ever expanding their horizons, the folks at Spotted Peccary have
brought in ethno-minded green isac from Norway. Cybershamanic
soundstreams issue from groundrush, redefining the otherworldly
essences of faraway places, encapsulating them in modern electronics.
Twelve tracks add up to more than 50 minutes of worldly listening.
The plodding rhythmic thrum of a processed framedrum opens the disc as
Groundrush (5:54) is joined by flutes, cellos, synths and more in
exotic electronic expansions; jangling notes swirl above the
intermingling neo-ethno instrumentation. Sweetly spooky atmospheres
float behind Wasa, threaded with bassy blurts, mid-tempo beats of
several varieties and just a dash of digital grunge to dirty it up a
bit. Radio voices are submerged beneath Glue one's glimmering haze,
where muffled flutations and sinuous e-bow hover above a bed of busy
little e-beats.
A lazy evening under a glowing sunset is brought to mind by the
flexible bass riffs and simmering strings of Red Guitar; warbling
flutage and lightly pattering percussion stir the airwaves like a warm
breeze. Documentary-style spoken samples are stirred (repeatedly) into
the metallically twanging notes of Is there any doubt in your mind?. A
dash of hip-hoppiness invigorates the cool, tranquil groove of Mifune;
hear the crooning glow of the vocoloop, the luxuriant writhing of the
e-bow, and the whatever-they-do of the dynacordian and waveberim.
The enticingly shapeless backdrop of Miner receives intermittent
applications of slowly thudding drums and softly sparkling chimes.
Backed by a grittily churning synthdrone, layers of lively ethnic beats
clatter close the disc with Fleetwood (2:02)
With an arsenal of suitably hybridized instruments, andreas eriksen and
morten lund forge soundworlds in Norway, but not of Norway... green
isac's ancient and futuristic influences are melded (in fairly even
proportions) into the smooth-though-rhythmic technotribal output of
8.3-ranked groundrush.