Labels: Thrill Jockey
Review by: Captain Fidanza
I have loved pretty much everything I’ve ever heard on Thrill Jockey and this is certainly no exception. Anything which brings to mind anything from the sublime Prospective 21 Siecle series from the 1960s and 1970’s has to be something worth forty minutes of anything’s time.
Secondly, I feel perhaps I should declare an interest in this by pointing out how if a record reminds me in anyway of Terry Riley then it gets an immediate “Two Thumbs Up” (R.I.P. Ebert) and this certainly does. It’s less driving than his “Dervish” albums with none of the whirling which makes them so special, but there seems to be a definite eastern influence which speaks of long, warm nights spent beneath Egyptian cotton trying to remember quite why anyone was allowed to put “Jesus Christ Superstar” into the VHS recorder and press “play.”
Marvellous synth-processing aplenty.