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Maenad, "A Thousand Petals"
Maenad is the second release on Text Records(http://www.tinmanrex.com/text.html), and favors dark drones, ghostlysinging and subtle atmospherics.
Samples and found sounds perfectlyblend and eventually any distinction between them becomes unimportant,such as when rain almost imperceptibly turns into the crackle of fire."a thousand petals" is not an album about dichotomies though, it is analbum about transmutation. All of the album's elements work in unisonto create an evolving aural landscape. Even things one would think tobe cliché, such as the thunderstorm on "in within" and the speech fromthe crazed Satanist on "pigs my fly," sound fresh as they'recomplimented with washes of sound and mood-altering rumbles. Vocalsamples, if not shrewdly buried, are processed, slowed, and distortedto become unrecognizable and camouflaged in this bleak terrain. Attimes the production sounds a bit muddy, as if too much noise islayered upon a track, but in the end the great moments of clarityillustrate glimpses of brilliance. "a thousand petals" is evocative andcompelling. Seek it out.
Samples and found sounds perfectlyblend and eventually any distinction between them becomes unimportant,such as when rain almost imperceptibly turns into the crackle of fire."a thousand petals" is not an album about dichotomies though, it is analbum about transmutation. All of the album's elements work in unisonto create an evolving aural landscape. Even things one would think tobe cliché, such as the thunderstorm on "in within" and the speech fromthe crazed Satanist on "pigs my fly," sound fresh as they'recomplimented with washes of sound and mood-altering rumbles. Vocalsamples, if not shrewdly buried, are processed, slowed, and distortedto become unrecognizable and camouflaged in this bleak terrain. Attimes the production sounds a bit muddy, as if too much noise islayered upon a track, but in the end the great moments of clarityillustrate glimpses of brilliance. "a thousand petals" is evocative andcompelling. Seek it out.
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