Labels: Runningonair Music
Review by: Captain Fidanza
Back to the mysterious city of Runningonair and what a glorious homecoming it proves to be.
However, instead of mathematics and science, this release is based around geography – mountains and glaciers to be precise. But just because we’re no longer in the science labs, don’t be fooled into thinking this release is any less quixotic.
Rolling and twindling and bratching and sweensging, on the music goes, onwards and onwards and onwards until we come to The Way Out, a sixteen and three quarter minute opus de soul in which the musicians at work here create something quite astonishingly beautiful which builds slowly throughout its runtime into one of the most incredible pieces of nonsense I’ve ever heard.
When this is added to the wonderful “A Thousand Crashing Cars” which at times seems to be recalling Terry Riley in its apparent use of improvisational organ work, you have a quite mesmerizing album which undoubtedly earns its place amongst the best releases from this extraordinary label.