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View Poll Results: How Much Did You Enjoy The Album?
Loved it 3 30.00%
Liked it 4 40.00%
Meh 1 10.00%
Disliked it 0 0%
Hated it 2 20.00%
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Old 01-24-2018, 03:19 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Was it Insects Part 1? I had to force myself to listen to that one.
I can't remember the title as I just had it rolling in the background. But there's a pretty damn good chance it was the same track and the title seems to fit what it sounded like.
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Old 01-26-2018, 08:39 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I never listened to this whole album and I never will. It's boring and intensely uncomfortable at the same time. Good day, Frown.
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Tuesday, Thought about listening to the album, September Winds, all day at work. OK done work, finally home, time to listen to this September Winds. However, instead of going directly to the album I thought I would logged on Music Banter and check to see if there was any reply to the post I made in http://www.musicbanter.com/indie-alt...die-songs.html I remember when I made the list I couldn't exactly think of my top ten indie/alt Rock songs. So I winged it. So I thought I would mention songs perhaps Lisnaholic would like. I thought definitely Outdoor Minor, Testimony and Cathedrals would be nice picks. I imagine him liking those songs. As I was making the list I fell into a slump. I couldn't think of any more songs to add. So I thought if I had one song from 78 I'll add another song from that year Another Girl, Another Planet. I know technically it's not indie/alt Rock, but it's pretty good, it's in the same range I guess. So picking Another Girl, Another Planet made me think of a whole bunch of other songs about space and junk. I started throwing in song like Field of Mars, First Day on a New Planter, Outer Space and Stars - songs like that. Then like any other list I make I am never satisfied. It was half favorite indie love songs half favorite space songs. Maybe I should make a list ahead of time in case such an occasion arises where I have to rattle them off. At least I know what they are and I can also consistently give the same top ten indie/alt Rock songs. So I made that list on Monday and as I was saying on Tuesday I went to check for a reply. I saw Chiomara's post. She mentioned Stars was one of her favorites too! Cool beans, we like the same song. The band top of the list was Dirty Beaches. I want to make a quip about how many bands use "Beach" in they name like "Beach" House and oh this other band with "Beach" in their name which totally escaped me. So I thought well before I make that comment let me first figure out what "Beach _____" band is. I was thinking "Beach Slag" or whatever but here it turns out to be really "Beach Slang." Why do I keep forgetting that name? IDK. So that took some valuable time away from listening to September Winds trying to figure out that band's name. Then it occurred to me 'What do the Dirty Beaches even sound like?' 'Never heard of them.' I thought to myself. So off YouTube I went to find a video, but I never got around to hearing a song by Dirty Beaches or even making that pun about so many bands with "Beach" in there name, cause as I was About to click on the Dirty Beaches video on the sidebar I saw something intriguing caught. I thought was an interesting thumbnail and name and I had to investigate further. It was a band called Kælan Mikla. So I spent most of the night going through Kælan Mikla videos, and then after that I went to plug.dj. So my plan to listen to September Winds on Tuesday night never came to fruition.

Wednesday I finally got down to business to listening to this album September Winds. However I thought I gotta do something else. I thought I know I go to plug.dj, mute it and maybe chit chat with whoever is there. While I was listening to "Insect Part 1" someone on the plug-chat said Mark E Smith has died. I had like a half minute of that song left I thought I wait it out and stop listening to the album, cause I was a bit bummed out. Maybe I shouldn't say "bummed out" that will leave the door wide open for Trollheart to make some kind of joke about bum holes. Let's just say I was a bit sadden by the news. Thelonious Monkey and I talked a little about The Fall, and I mentioned they were from Manchester. I played Rebellious Jukebox for him. He said it was his first Fall song. I was glad to introduce him to the band. I couldn't go back to September Winds that night.

Thurday I came home wiped out, totally knackered. Je suis complètement crevé!. as the French would say. I slept till midnight. I got up. I didn't feel much like eating or anything. So I grabbed myself San Pellegrino then logged on to plug.dj. I saw WWWP and Chio there. Frownland was there but he left exactly before I went to ask him a question - I forget what it was. So anyway while I was in plug.dj I was checking out the latest posts. I told WWWP and Chio that Frownland possibly wrote the longest joke ever told on Music Banter, in Music Banter history. http://www.musicbanter.com/games-lis...ml#post1920079 TBH I gave up reading half way through the first post. I was wondering the whole time could he have somehow leave out most of this, come up with some abridged version but with the same punch line?
I thought I should make a comment too. So I quipped "That's a joke only Leon Trotsky could tell." Then a few minutes later it dawned on me, wait a minute that doesn't make sense at all. I think I just got Leo Tolstoy mixed up with Leon Trotsky. I better change it quick before someone see that. Certainly someone will call me out on that. I don't think I could live down getting caught telling a joke that doesn't not make any sense. All in all, in retrospect, I thought I should have said "This is only a joke Fyodor Dostoyevsky could have told." I thought that that could have gotten a better response, perhaps a LOL from somebody who knows how long Dostoyevsky stories are. Another missed opportunity for funny response and another missed opportunity for a September Wind review.

Friday Today I finally got chance to complete the listening to the album September Winds. I forget what song but there was some disgusting slurping sounds which I thought were quite unnecessary. However for the most part the performance did have merit. I like how the notes change subtly through technique of the player. I liked how they notes resonated. I thought having a five to ten thousand dollar orchestra woodwind sound like a didgeridoo to be quite the accomplishment. The recording also utilizes reverb, whether it was achieve by acoustics of the room the musicians preformed in or it was added later through an effects processor during post-production I do not know. Another thing worth mentioning is at times the notes would pan stereophonically from one channel to another adding a little bit of excitement into the mix. So the combination between the reverberation, the resonance and the panning from one channel to the other all together complimented each other gave the recording a unique spatial quality. In short the album was more about listening for the variation in timbre than about listening to a melody. To sum it all up I thought the best way to critique September Winds is to have a long, drawn out, meandering review to sum up a long, drawn out, meandering album.


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Good fun nice digeridoodoingin ambeyonce. Being the big Steve Roach and Max Corbacho fanboy that I am, I appreciate the compositional approach here: works great as an overall experience. If you liked this album, check out the former's Dreamtime Return and the latters Vestiges. They are both "better" records than this one in a sense, but I could see myself adding to to my collection.

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I would have liked a bit more variety for the length of this thing, perhaps, but that's a relatively small complaint, since I can cut the listening experience up in pieces if I wish.

I feared this would go too far into ambient territory, but there's enough going on in these tracks that I'm not bored, and they do create an incredible sort of mood. Some track hold my attention more than others, but I feel like there's something remarkable going on here that I don't want to dismiss for a few minor quibbles.

Beautiful, atmospheric, unsettling, creative... I'm finding it easy to imagine all sorts of imagery that goes incredibly well with this music.

I'm still not sure how much this album will grow on me, but for now, it gets a solid vote of "liked it".
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This was recorded inside of a water facility to give it its dynamic ambience where some notes will carry and simmer out while others are cut short. All of these players are phenomenal and musically communicate with ease as you would expect from such improvisors. Musically, it's haunting and unsettling while simultaneously beautiful. This is unlike anything that I've ever heard which alone makes it a winner. 5/5
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This was recorded inside of a water facility to give it its dynamic ambience where some notes will carry and simmer out while others are cut short. All of these players are phenomenal and musically communicate with ease as you would expect from such improvisors. Musically, it's haunting and unsettling while simultaneously beautiful. This is unlike anything that I've ever heard which alone makes it a winner. 5/5
Are you saying they used water to obtain reverberation? One of my favorite albums of all time made use of a make-shift reverb unit by using a water tank with a speaker and microphone attached to either end.

... and what is the world was that disgusting slurping sound? It nearly ruined the album for me.

Why is Trollheart being the absentee-host? It's been a week and it looks like he totally ignore this album. He didn't really review The Church album either. I expected a more thorough and receptive review from Trollheart for Blurred Crusade, considering I hand-picked the album. You know I put a lot of thought into it. I thought it would be a good album to strengthen this often divided Album Club by presenting an album that may have the potential to be appealing to everyone. I also thought he would like the album because it has a Genesis sounding "aahhhhhh" keyboard sound on several tracks. I thought what a good way to get him into music he may not be familiar with or somehow missed for whatever reason if heard something similar to a sound Tony Banks would use on a Genesis song.

Ok this is outside of the Album Club, but he did not comment on the brilliance of John Coltrane. I know he knows Coltrane's album was up for review cause I caught him goofing around and making jokes in Sunships thread. I wish he would take the Album Club and MB Classics more seriously.
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[about the Church album]I thought it would be a good album to strengthen this often divided Album Club by presenting an album that the potential to appealing to everyone.
I honestly think no album could really, truly get everyone on the same page. If 90% likes it, it's almost guaranteed that I won't, and it wouldn't even be contrarianism.
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