NEW @ The Squid's Ear - February 9, 2004
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I read the review and am very curious, as I like Kang. Can anyone give a different perspective of this album?
I read the review and am very curious, as I like Kang. Can anyone give a different perspective of this album?
Virginal Coordinates is a really great album, one of my favourite albums of last year. It opens with one of Kang's now almost 'trademark' drones (if you've heard his last album, 'Live Low To The Earth...' you'll know what I'm talking about) which eventually gives way to a lilting, sort of 'circular' violin melody, beautiful and different as his melodies usually are. The second track continues with a similar concept, this time featuring multi-layered vocals from Mike Patton. These two tracks are amazing and really blow me away each time I hear them. The rest of the album is great too, but I don't think it ever reaches the peak of the opening two tracks again. There are of course interesting compositions (mostly in a 'minimalistic' vibe), great moods created, and wonderful playing throughout... Julian.
Hi, I mostly agree. "Virginal Coordinates" was my favorite album from last year, no doubt. Together with "Story of Iceland", I think it's Kang's greatest achievement. "VC" it's perfectly listeneable, full of beautiful melodies, repetitive patterns, a nice winds-strings combination, soft percussion, and Patton on incredibly "polite" vocals. The truth is that his vocals on the second track were not multi-layered, as far as I know. The album was recorded in an old, abandoned theater and it seems that the acoustics were really special. Best, Efrén del Valle --- Julian <germtheory@optusnet.com.au> escribió: > > I read the review and am very curious, as I like
Kang. Can anyone give a
different perspective of this album?
Virginal Coordinates is a really great album, one of my favourite albums of last year. It opens with one of Kang's now almost 'trademark' drones (if you've heard his last album, 'Live Low To The Earth...' you'll know what I'm talking about) which eventually gives way to a lilting, sort of 'circular' violin melody, beautiful and different as his melodies usually are. The second track continues with a similar concept, this time featuring multi-layered vocals from Mike Patton. These two tracks are amazing and really blow me away each time I hear them. The rest of the album is great too, but I don't think it ever reaches the peak of the opening two tracks again. There are of course interesting compositions (mostly in a 'minimalistic' vibe), great moods created, and wonderful playing throughout...
Julian.
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"polite" vocals. The truth is that his vocals on the second track were not multi-layered, as far as I know. The album was recorded in an old, abandoned theater and it seems that the acoustics were really special.
They'd have to be multi-layered at least once, unless he's using a very state-of-the-art harmoniser effect...
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