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Various Artists
General | Dec 2003

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2004-03-01
Experimental psyche improvised noise avante trippiness. A plethora of artists, collaborations, recorded over last 5 years from New Zealand to SF. Think Terrastock, or weirdo Japanese psyche, tracks unrepentant in their length and loopiness, for their bellbutton-gaziness. Artists with name recognition include locals Subarachnoid Space, Bardo Pond, Pelt, The Iditarod, and Thuja. Lots of good old-school low fi tape manipulation too.

CD1:
1) hypnotic guit loop w/ echoey spacey sounds, trippy, after ~6.5 min turns strummy and dreamlike
2) quiet drone buildup, bow exchanges, intensifies w/ improvised percussion
3) trippy sturmmy guit w/ treated vocs, some melodian
4) moisier space drones, tape loops, build lushly
5) feedbacky drones, live improvised feeling, watch very quiet ending
6) a “real” song: windy drones w/ low fi fem solo singing, folk-songlike 2 min intro to psyche acoustic guit based song w/ fem vocs
7) improv feedbacky chill drone
8) shorter, w/ new-primitive feel w/ drumming and low-fi chants
9) minimal drum beat, minimal off-key “singing” and reverby everything, chill
10) scarey spacey spooky
11) incoherent off key solo male vocal
12) echoey/reverby drumbeat, almost a “song”, droney in a cave- tinges of Flying Saucer Attack

CD2:
1) low fi noise jam by local faves Subarachoid Space as captured by a boom box
2) mechanical organic old school “industrial noise” feel
3) mostly drone guit dist/feeback w/ some cymbal banging, not as noisy as you’d think
4) improv feel, spacy drumming, piano, chill
5) very chill organic guits, spacey and beautiful really
6) more chillfest, dreamy droney
7) waltzy drum beats, super mellow psyche rock, a song, like Neil Young on Quaaludes, speeds up annoyingly at end
8) dark synth drone and echoey harsh noises, cool rhythm develops ~3 min in
9) old school low fi noise, droney loopy, cool
10) way trippy bass and guitar plucking for first 2 min, stops then chillness follows
11) quiet lead-in, very chill synth space
12) treated Indian instruments, backwards tapes, layer on heavily to anice organic noise collage
13) trippy acoustic guit playing, subtle strings
14) mellow psyche folk minimal guit, vocs, w/ hippie VU treatments
15 low fi tape loops, tones, bowed strings, noise, watch dead air at end ~ 30 secs

Recent airplay

Queen Flat Sheet [played under the Chomsky track]
Memory SelectApr 21, 2006
Alclorse Mentalimo Camarion
Stirling's ApproximationMay 12, 2004
The Signal Tower at Murrysvi
The Digital/Analog WarApr 20, 2004
Where the Cold Winds Blow
Alclorse Mentalimo Camarion
The Digital/Analog WarApr 13, 2004
The Signal Tower at Murrysvi
Umami Jazz ProgramApr 06, 2004

Charting

2004-03-15 — 2004-05-17
Week EndingAirplays
May 16 1
Apr 25 1
Apr 18 2
Apr 11 1
Mar 28 2
Mar 21 1

Track listing

1. 1ST.SEX
2. La Maga
3. Chartreuse My Green
4. Queen Flat Sheet
5. The Signal Tower at Murrysvi
6. Where the Cold Winds Blow
7. Ice Caves
8. Unohdan Kaiken
9. Alclorse Mentalimo Camarion
10. Alclorse Mentalimo Camarion
11. Alclorse Mentalimo Camarion
12. Alclorse Mentalimo Camarion
13. Honorable Mention
14. Rollien Planeetta
15. The Good Life
16. John Dee's Dream
17. Water Falls Through Air to
18. Lost Island
19. Dokonimo
20. Dip
21. Bass Is the Bass, Bass Is Th
22. Liquid Constant
23. Pink Cloud
24. Thirsty Sect
25. Stones and the Curling Smoke
26. She Is the Swallow
27. The Lightbox