Snakish
Reviews
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2005-09-03
Reviewed 2005-09-03
Slow-moving improvs pitting acoustic guitar with darkly abstract electronics, with Wadada Leo Smith's trumpet adding restrained color on top. Occasional spoken female voice.
Atmospheric, often heavy and dark. Like a bleak landscape. Many tracks start quiet but build quickly.
1- Calm guitar flow with increasing menace
2- Abstract rumble, gets fast/loud
3- Noisy, artsy.
4- Slow electronic swoops like evil ghosts. Crisp trumpet.
5- Develops into a huge menacing sound, glacial
6- Sparse "industrial" start; one long tone ends it
7- Vocal recitation, then slow trumpet. Ending trails for a while
8- Fuzzy buzzing, female speaking. Insistent; lots of electronics.
9- Cavernous punches over calm flow. Quiet buzz to start.
10- Fancy dancing trumpet/guitar near the end. Quiet start.
11- Quiet bells, then thundering bubbly (slow) wrath
12- Spare squalls, into slow buzzy machine stomping
13- Slowly jazzy trumpet lead, a hip lyricism
14- Slow, sparse, dark. Electronic washes end it.
Atmospheric, often heavy and dark. Like a bleak landscape. Many tracks start quiet but build quickly.
1- Calm guitar flow with increasing menace
2- Abstract rumble, gets fast/loud
3- Noisy, artsy.
4- Slow electronic swoops like evil ghosts. Crisp trumpet.
5- Develops into a huge menacing sound, glacial
6- Sparse "industrial" start; one long tone ends it
7- Vocal recitation, then slow trumpet. Ending trails for a while
8- Fuzzy buzzing, female speaking. Insistent; lots of electronics.
9- Cavernous punches over calm flow. Quiet buzz to start.
10- Fancy dancing trumpet/guitar near the end. Quiet start.
11- Quiet bells, then thundering bubbly (slow) wrath
12- Spare squalls, into slow buzzy machine stomping
13- Slowly jazzy trumpet lead, a hip lyricism
14- Slow, sparse, dark. Electronic washes end it.
Recent airplay
Yopo
Memory Select — Oct 28, 2005
Rivers of Swans
Umami Jazz Program — Oct 25, 2005
Cosmoil
Memory Select — Sep 30, 2005
Rivers of Swans
Umami Jazz Program — Sep 27, 2005
Yopo
Umami Jazz Program — Sep 20, 2005
Cosmoil
Memory Select — Sep 16, 2005
Charting
2005-08-28 — 2005-10-30
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Oct 30 | 2 |
| Oct 2 | 2 |
| Sep 25 | 1 |
| Sep 18 | 1 |
| Sep 4 | 3 |
Track listing
| 1. | Uncoiling | ||
| 2. | Cosmoil | ||
| 3. | Disembodyism | ||
| 4. | Over the Influence | ||
| 5. | Yopo | ||
| 6. | Black Bell Mother | ||
| 7. | Majounish | ||
| 8. | Kawami Wama | ||
| 9. | Speeds Per Coil | ||
| 10. | Neither Liquid Nor ... | ||
| 11. | Gold Green Melt | ||
| 12. | Gangah Wallah | ||
| 13. | Rivers of Swans | ||
| 14. | Coiling |