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06-14-2013, 04:59 PM | #121 (permalink) |
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Quite an intriguing listen, first up. Reach for the Dead, White Cyclosa, Cold Earth, Split Your Infinities, New Seeds & Come to Dust sort of stick in my head, although the album is very seamless. I also like that they have a couple of purely ambient pieces sprinkled about (Telepath, Sundown), and considering their highly textural and slightly ambiguous thematic approach, listening to it as an album would most definitely serve you best.
I'm still wondering what it is that it paints in my head. Sometimes it's teetering at the edge of fiction with a possible hint at the science of tomorrow. "Palace Posy" has a slightly tribal, folkloric opening. "Reach For The Dead" or "Split Your Infinities" has that ambiguity in title, but then again, music can notoriously turn out to be quite a different experience as to what the title of the song might suggest. Certainly requires a few more listens. |
06-17-2013, 08:59 PM | #123 (permalink) |
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I'm not sure why Boards of Canada appeal to so many people. I don't dislike them but I find most of their songs sleep inducing, which is fine if I want to listen to something that will put me to sleep within three minutes of playing the album's first track.
I have a similar reaction to other ambient projects like Aphex Twin, Autechre and Eno's collected ambient works. I will concede that Music for Airports does have a calming effect if you're traveling by air. I agree with Brain Eno's theory that ambient music is furniture music and it shouldn't demand attentive listening. Good ambient music should be easy to ignore because it's background music intended to enhance the listener's relationship to his daily environment. That's why nearly all ambient compositions have unobtrusive and repetitive themes. I usually don't play ambient music unless I'm doing a specific activity like writing, reading a book, going to sleep or driving my car. Ambient music helps me focus my creative energies to the task at hand, while playing any other form of music usually distracts me from the task at hand. Eno's theories on ambient music are highly conceptual. I saw him speak at a workshop at the Boston Museum School on ambient music theory and it was a challenge to follow the thread of his lecture because his ideas are so abstract. When Eno finished, he asked if there were any questions and nobody raised their hand, for fear being the first moron in the room to ask Eno a stupid question.
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06-18-2013, 12:37 AM | #124 (permalink) |
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I like a lot of Boards of Canada's stuff. They got me interested in analogue synths in a big way. The tones they use are really nice, but I think it's the atmospheres that the band creates that got me hooked on them. It's easy to just close my eyes and be taken somewhere else listening to their stuff.
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It's happening, it's fucking happening. Also, where the fuck is "Hi-Scores"? I'm really kind of bummed they aren't re-issuing that EP. It has one of my favorite BoC songs of all time. Last edited by Sequoioideae; 08-15-2013 at 12:38 PM. |
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08-15-2013, 05:54 PM | #129 (permalink) |
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