Leikam, David / A Splic _ Ing
Album: A Splic _ Ing   Collection:General
Artist:Leikam, David   Added:Aug 2007
Label:David Leikam Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-10-28 Pull Date: 2007-12-30 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Dec 9 Nov 11
Airplays: 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Dec 17, 2015: In Your Ear Radio | Star Wars with Christine
Making Contact With Saturn (For Sextet)
4. Jul 14, 2015: In Your Ear Radio
Making Contact With Saturn (For Sextet)
2. Dec 10, 2015: In Your Ear Radio
Late Night Journeys Into Despair (Duet Featuring Thomas Merácz), Santa Cruz (For Trio)
5. Sep 11, 2012: Meow
Making Contact With Saturn (For Sextet)
3. Oct 29, 2015: In Your Ear Radio
Making Contact With Saturn (For Sextet)
6. Jun 29, 2012: In Your Ear | Farewell Again 2
Santa Cruz (For Trio), Late Night Journeys Into Despair (Duet Featuring Thomas Merácz)

Album Review
David McWade
Reviewed 2007-10-11
Improv, experimental jams of various styles. The artist is KZSU dj David Bug. Most tracks are very long and they all sound different (often with changes within songs), the improv theme is what holds them together (and it appears to have been recorded live in-studio). The artist clearly has a great deal of range and skill.

Start with 2, 5

1 Lo-fi, fuzzy noisy indie rock jam

2 Excellent, celestial and twisted classical sounds like Legendary Pink Dots circa 'Asylum' (or earlier) meets Robert Rich circa 'Calling Down The Sky'. Worth the length. My only complaint is that the astrologers consider Saturn to be a 'bad planet'

3 Long, jammy, drums and electronic noises, evolving, good

4 A lot of changes: starts echoic celestial, compendium of different types of synths and instruments (strings and horns, etc.) Then with about 10 minutes left gets darker, pensive, and more industrial-ish, later gets sparse. The last 5 minutes are very nice, makes me think of MIMIR.

5 Starts minimal, gets kind of intense, chaotic modern, dissonant classical with piano mixed with electronic sounds with about 6:30 left, brilliant and pretty. Haunting voices, minimalism, more dissonant chaos.

Track Listing
1. Santa Cruz (For Trio)   3. "We Are Not Installing A Toilet Here?" (For Octet)
2. Making Contact With Saturn (For Sextet)   4. Late Night Journeys Into Despair (Duet Featuring Thomas Merácz)
  5. Fremd Soundings (Duet Featuring Areni Agbabian)