Figure In The Carpet
Reviews
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2014-04-17
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.
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 Erudition — Jun 17, 2014
Figure In The Carpet, Gates Of Glass
ZODIAC — Jun 13, 2014
Figure In The Carpet
Music Casserole — May 31, 2014
Rain Tractor
No Cover, No Minimum — May 30, 2014
Figure In The Carpet
Fried Ehgg — May 08, 2014
Rain Tractor
Music Casserole — May 03, 2014
Charting
2014-04-25 — 2014-06-27
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| 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 |