Copernicus With The Nomadas - Immediate Eternity (c) 2001 Nevermore
Artist....: Copernicus With The Nomadas
Album.....: Immediate Eternity
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 10
Genre.....: Avantgarde
Label.....: Nevermore
Catalogue#: NCD 2090
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.copernicusonline.net/
Tracklist:
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01 Beautiful Humanity 05:00
02 Balloon Dreams 06:16
03 Absolute Truth Is Possible 07:07
04 Free Of Me 06:07
05 Dust 04:32
06 Feel The Nonexistance 07:45
07 The Carrot 09:52
08 The Stick 06:28
09 There Is No Difference 04:10
10 Viva The New 07:24
Total:75,6 MB / 64:41 min
Release Notes:
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Copernicus, born Joseph Smalkowski, is an avant-garde musician based
out of New York. He has self-published at least eight albums of
spoken-word content with music in the background. Some of his songs are
improvised, while others are written beforehand. One thing common to
all of them is that he writes no music; all the musical accompaniment
is improvised by hired musicians. His music features many recurring
themes, including atoms, the idea that nothing really exists, and that
humans are no greater than anything else in the universe. He has worked
in the past with Bix, a well-known Lithuanian band, and several
musicians who played on his albums would go on to form the Celtic rock
band Black 47.
If you've heard any of Copernicus' prior five albums, you won't be
surprised by the general tenor of this, his sixth one. Basically, it
sounds as if a cosmic philosopher has decided he'll have a greater
chance at getting his message across to the masses if he teams up with
a lounge band. By the same token, it sounds as if the lounge band has
seized upon Copernicus as its long-awaited chance to get far-out and
cosmic. It's an odd mesh, to say the least, with Copernicus delivering,
in a spoken (not singing) voice, prose espousing the wonder of
humanity, the quest for truth, the microscopic importance of man in the
context of the universe, and the danger to Earth's survival caused by
man's folly. If that sounds like it might be a new age album, it isn't
(although the band goes into some new age flourishes from time to
time), as Copernicus moans, growls, and melodramatizes his lyrics like
a wizened, Methuselan Shakespearean actor. To those familiar with other
Copernicus albums, this differs from the others in that (save for one
track) he traveled to Ecuador to work with musicians who do not even
speak English. The accompaniment was devised based on the emotional
tone of his performance rather than the meaning of his lyrics. The band
chugs away like an average fusion group flying by the seat of their
pants to match Copernicus' mercurial moods, occasionally uncoiling some
nearly avant-garde bursts of fury, particularly on guitar. The songs
are mostly ruminative, if somewhat anguished at points, the exception
being "The Stick," which has an almost hardcore-like post-punk bash
behind the leader's castigations of mankind's ignorance.