An Aural Symbiotic Mystery

Palestine, Charlemagne / Tony Conrad
Sub Rosa
General | Jun 2007

Reviews

mufaor
Reviewed 2007-06-24
Absolutely beautiful minimalist piano, string drone, scratchy strings, and occasionally, lamenting bizarro vocals. Overall droney, sometimes noisy sometimes chill. Recorded live in 2005 in Brussels on “Luc Ferrari Day”, (day honoring the recently-deceased composer).

One track, a general guide below.

0: most minimal section. Starts about 7 seconds in, with a drone, then some talking, then scratchy violin that sounds like a muted trumpet, piano drone, gradually gets a little denser harmonically.
10:30 louder, more varied violin, quiets down again after a while but eerie harmonies.
*16:00 starts wigging out a little, twitches, grinding but pretty violin, distortion, getting noisier and generally absolutely fucking beautiful. in and out of consonance. so simple and droney ooh.
22:28 voice, almost throat singing, lament. sick, dissonant, beautiful, almost bad in a good way after a while.
26:00 voice tapers off, more grating distorted droney instrumental, alternating with calm.
35:57 organ or synth instead of piano. lament/intense/eerie/tense.
38:44 consonant again, piano, string sounds like muted trumpet.
*40:40 voice again, high, a little goofy. oof, dying chicken and screechy string. awesome. annoying as hell, great.
42:57 drone and similar vocals – the voice sounds similar to the distorted strings
*46:30 gradual fadeout/drone, one of my favorite endings ever i think, clapping.

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Charting

2007-06-24 — 2007-08-26 Classical/Experimental
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Track listing

1. An Aural Symbiotic Mystery