Labels: Runningonair Music
Review by: Captain Fidanza
Another release by Runningonair Music. I love these dudes because they all seem to be mad scientists who make electronic music according to the rules of mathematics, then package it all up in cardboard sleeves with weird photos on the front. Brilliant.
Interestingly, this release is someone playing the acoustic guitar.
This is excellent. Most of the Cds that AM sends me end up in Wood Green Oxfam, but I’ll be keeping this one. It has a genuine country feel to it that is at times reminiscent of the albums Bill Frisell made in the late 1990s, although the fact it sounds entirely original might be due to the fact the “country” it is eulogising is India rather than Nashville.
Everything about this is as engaging as it is challenging, with occasional vocal samples to heighten the experimental feel of the music. This is also perhaps the first album ever to be reviewed on Collective which features an Ektara, a traditional, one-stringed musical instrument from India commonly used in Hindu Kirtan chanting.
Incidentally, there is an enormous collection of curious musical instruments from all around the world at the Horniman museum in Forest Hill. I went there on Thursday and it was quite brilliant, although if you are an acolyte of the prophet Michelle Bachmann, I wouldn’t recommend visiting as there is an equally large collection of “evidence” to prove Darwin’s “theories” of “evolution”.