| Licht, Alan / A New York Minute |
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| Album: | A New York Minute | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Licht, Alan | Added: | Sep 2003 | |
| Label: | Xi Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-10-19 | Pull Date: | 2003-12-21 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 14 | Nov 9 | Nov 2 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 13, 2010: | Customary Surprise A New York Minute, Remington Khan | 4. | Nov 05, 2003: | Brownian Motion Freaky Friday | |
| 2. | Dec 24, 2003: | Browninan XXX-mass Eve Freaky Friday | 5. | Oct 30, 2003: | Brownian Epiphany Another Sky | |
| 3. | Dec 10, 2003: | press and release A New York Minute | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2003-10-14 | ||
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Alan Licht, veteran of many bands and scenes, here treads onto experimental collage and looping ground. Pieces assembled from tapes rest easily aside pieces militantly proclaimed “no overdubs”. Seemingly one-idea tracks take on multiple levels on closer inspection. Patience is rewarded on both of the second CD’s half-hour-plus tracks. CD 1 1. A collage (more assembled than cut-up) of minute-long radio weather reports from a NY station in January 2001; one funny detail is how the reports feature teletype machine sounds in the background when it’s highly probable that no teletypes are used; maybe my mind is just imagining this, which in itself would be remarkable; another interesting thing is that the reports are of basically the same info (though slowly mutating) but presented differently – a spoken take on pieces that appear to repeat but in actuality, gradually mutate; a bit of subway station ambiance is suffixed 2. Multitracked guitars, that through the magic of electronics, sound like melodicas or harmoniums; about halfway through, the sound changes to looped guitar figures and eventually, bass also comes in; hypnotizing 3. Crickets, loop flutes, stoopid guitar and drums loop, and to ice this sonic cake, chants of Ali’s name 4. Multitracked organ drone CD 2 1. A half-hour of tense guitar trilling resolved by a few minutes of cathartic, melodic picking layered on top of same guitar trill; patience is the watchword 2. Starts very quietly – the Marantz CD players may elide the 3-4 minutes of low level sound away – then a slow buildup to a Fahey-esque delicately picked out melodies alongside somewhat more guttural rhythmic strums; this eventually fades and then the motif returns but with a much more nasty fuzzed bassline juxtaposed to the delicate fingerpicked melody; again, patience is the word as this piece lasts some 35+ minutes | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | A New York Minute | 4. | Another Sky | |||
| 2. | Freaky Friday | 5. | 14, Second, Fifth | |||
| 3. | Muhammed Ali and the Cricket | 6. | Remington Khan |