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Richard Tyler: Eepra Nahf
ByThe next track, "The Trapeze Artist," 10:00, never really set me at ease. Its ringing, resonant, feedback-ready, whistling tonalities were painful if the volume was set too high. Random noise, warped, phased, flange mid-ranges and low-end drones add to the dense mosaic. Imagine a 6-foot tall tuning fork vibrating in a very small cubicle with you. Not completely calming but more psyche overload, inducing erasure of thought processes. Next track pleasewhew.
"Connection to Breathing," 20:00, ahh yes, this is better. Think of Halpern, Budd, Eno, Lynch, or Badarou idea, the crystal clear, light-filled, minimalistic tones of a sparsely tinkled keyboard. Plenty of reverb and sustain here. Occasional odd animal calls echo past in adjacent soundfields. A Whale? No. A Loon? Perhaps. An alien leather-winged bat-bird? I dunno. Whatever it is, it likes cruising around in your head, calling randomly. It's a nice touch to aid in avoiding listener boredom. ( I fear however that someone has surely done this same routine before on some holistic, New Agey 80s binge of releases.) Tyler repeats, loops, improvs on keys scantly and briefly. Tyler saunters in a directionless path to nowhere and not too fast either. It is one-dimensional, not challenging the listener to listen. No flash here. More of this, some more of that, then final echoes of the crypto-critter's cries, fade-out into a deep woods serenade of insecta and amphibia and that "loon" that leads all the night denizens into silence . . .
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Album information
Title: Eepra Nahf | Year Released: 2000 | Record Label: Blue Tractors Records
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