Track 8: Abstractions (6.58) Another "spooky"-sounding track, starting with a wailing vocal sample, and sparse instrumentation, until the bassline kicks in after a minute or so and the tempo picks up a bit. Again very "Orb-sounding" (it reminded me a little of "Orblivion", but I'm not sure why...maybe "Asylum"?), with some trademark "watery noises" towards the end. Nice track. Track 9: L.U.C.A. (5:15) More thumping bass, with a repeated vocal sample at the start that I can't make out. It doesn't start too promisingly, but soon picks up when the track goes a bit "ravey" a little way in, with what sounds like a Flavor Flav sample ("hurgh!") repeated a few times, plus a voice saying "keep on moving!"... ...hey, "thumping bass" + "keep on moving"? What did happen to Soul2Soul? ;-o Track 10: Compania (1:54) Back to the "spookiness" - chimes / glockenspiels (I think) in the area, with a sad sounding refrain. No bass. Very short. Not bad. Track 11: Tower 23 (7.49) Well, if the name isn't a big enough clue, it only takes 10 seconds to realise that this track is gonna be a little on the dubby side! Classic echo-chamber harmonica starts the track, before a cracking dub bassline kicks in, soon supported by mellow keyboards (might even be a Hammond organ?), before more dub-like keyboard stabs take over... ...and then the track goes off into dub-land for 5-6 minutes, to give the longest track on the album. Good stuff. Track 12: Dilmun (4:02) Most of you will already know how this sounds (exactly the same as the version on the Kompassion EP, as far as I can tell) - some old-school ambientness to close off the album. mmmmm, feeling veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy. Overall, a pretty good album, and much better than I expected it to be if I'm perfectly honest - especially after some mainly disappointing tracks recently ("Cool Harbour" excepted), and the new versions of "older" tracks are both marked improvements on the originals. In a sentence? "I like it a lot." Apart from "From A Distance", the album is very mellow, plus a little "dark" / "spooky" (or "ethereal" if I'm trying to sound clever) in parts. It's a definite grower, but it does need a few listens before you can get a "proper" feel for it.
hey, i wonder if track 9 is titled after a icq session i had during a teatime set. -------------------------------------- ICQ History Log For: 110767871 London Started on Tue Jun 10 19:43:21 2003 -------------------------------------- jchambers6 03/07/20 9:50 AM loving you in ca jchambers6 03/07/20 10:28 AM hey, can you play fast foward the future? thanks London 03/07/20 10:30 AM lovin u from london hope all is well lx jchambers6 03/07/20 10:35 AM just doing the wash and bugging the neighbors with your music jchambers6 03/07/20 10:49 AM Great Set!!! jchambers6 03/07/20 10:57 AM yowza, was that pil? --- Smiley <smileyweb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Track 8: Abstractions (6.58)
Another "spooky"-sounding track, starting with a wailing vocal sample, and sparse instrumentation, until the bassline kicks in after a minute or so and the tempo picks up a bit.
Again very "Orb-sounding" (it reminded me a little of "Orblivion", but I'm not sure why...maybe "Asylum"?), with some trademark "watery noises" towards the end.
Nice track.
Track 9: L.U.C.A. (5:15)
More thumping bass, with a repeated vocal sample at the start that I can't make out.
It doesn't start too promisingly, but soon picks up when the track goes a bit "ravey" a little way in, with what sounds like a Flavor Flav sample ("hurgh!") repeated a few times, plus a voice saying "keep on moving!"...
...hey, "thumping bass" + "keep on moving"? What did happen to Soul2Soul? ;-o
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