Figure In The Carpet

General | Apr 2013

Reviews

Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2014-04-17
Calm but noisy free jazz draped with theremin and electronics in the background. Even the fast/loud pieces have a meditative air. Sax and drums lead most tracks, with subtle French horn and less subtle guitar augmenting the sound sometimes, and continual electronics adding ambiance. Conveys free-jazz energy while staying purposely eerie and distant.

1- Hypnotic drone, into a free-jazz sax exploration over calm background.
2- Calm, metallic/glassy. Kind of 'futuristic'
3- Dark and heavy, although not loud. Ominous, w/bass-register humming and dire (but not loud) horn playing. Heavy drums that don't overpower.
4- Careful, drawn-out. Eerie guitar behind a slow sax line.
5- Fast tribal drum beat. Squirrely sax and, eventually, some distorted, grunting guitar.
6- Heavy on the eeriness. Abrasive long tones on horns, giving way to rickety theremin sounds and, later, some heated sax playing.
7- Meditative; sax almost like a wood flute, ceremonial sounding percussion. Slowish with a busy feel.
8- Tougher and dark: Metallic howls and radio-staticky noise
9- Starts spare; builds into fuzzy noise
10- Melodic and rhythmic, but still weird: Bubbly noise, harmonized horns, an odd pulsing rhythm.

Recent airplay

Rain Tractor
Eclectic EruditionJun 17, 2014
Figure In The Carpet, Gates Of Glass
ZODIACJun 13, 2014
Figure In The Carpet
Music CasseroleMay 31, 2014
Rain Tractor
No Cover, No MinimumMay 30, 2014
Figure In The Carpet
Fried EhggMay 08, 2014
Rain Tractor
Music CasseroleMay 03, 2014

Charting

2014-04-25 — 2014-06-27
Week EndingAirplays
Jun 22 1
Jun 15 1
Jun 1 2
May 11 1
May 4 2

Track listing

1. External Rhyme
2. Gates Of Glass
3. Figure In The Carpet
4. Palimpsest
5. Rain Tractor
6. Ode To The Night Watchman
7. Under Land
8. Tuning The Blue City
9. The Myth Of An Ordinary Man
10. Surfactants