| Rothenberg, David / Whale Music |
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| Album: | Whale Music | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Rothenberg, David | Added: | Jul 2008 | |
| Label: | Terra Nova Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-08-10 | Pull Date: | 2008-10-12 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Oct 12 | Oct 5 | Aug 24 | Aug 17 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 03, 2016: | does radio suck? Beluga No Believe In Tears | 4. | Jan 13, 2010: | Lost Verses The Killer | |
| 2. | Aug 27, 2014: | minimum entropy Beluga No Believe In Tears | 5. | Nov 07, 2009: | Music Casserole Beluga No Believe In Tears | |
| 3. | May 24, 2014: | Music Casserole Whiteness Of The Beast | 6. | Jul 29, 2009: | B-Side Sub Valentine's Day 1992 |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2008-07-31 | ||
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Yup, whale sounds mixed with experimental sparse avante jazz bass-clarinet heavy music. Needless to say the whales sound altogether flatulent and moaning, high pitched squeals and low end bubbling, so the whole thing is pretty weird. Environmental sounds, especially (“save the”) whales tend to bring to mind new age’y pap, massage music, or worse. So this stuff works because it mostly avoids that. Trippy and cool, compiled from field recordings of a wide variety of species across the world. 1) kinda new agey and ambient 2) scronky clarinet reminds me of Clock DVA 3) slow and dark clarinet melodies 4) a cool pulsing tribal rhythm, whale sounds aren’t so much in the front 5-6) really sparse, weird, could be mixed in with some drone or spoken word 7) interesting guitar/percussive (?) tones 8) high pitched bows and squeals, pretty violin 9) very “field” feeling 10) rhythmic, a cool tape loop feel creates a good beat 11) nice solo clarinet work 12) lyrics: male vocals “the world’s last whale”, dark and brooding and slightly smokey smarmy | ||
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