Eidolons

General | Dec 2010

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2010-12-22
Local experimentalists who use organic instruments, strings, pump organ, flute, tamboura, looped, sampled. A lot of eastern’isms are inherent in such a thing if only because the original/ultimate drone instrument is the Indian tamboura and all stringed things smack of it when droned. Plenty of it here along with a dominant use of flute. Otherwise it cant help but ring of hippie trippy gothy renaissance folky weirdness like Current 93 without vocals. Will surely scratch your drone psyche stoned without drugs itch.

Part 1.
1) very brief tone
2) folky psychey trippy, sitar and guitars, Fairport Convention meets Ravi Shankar
3) shorter kinda out of tune noodling
4) noisey percussive, like recent Daniel Menche, layers of an avalanche of stones
5) a lovely beautiful looped dreamlike flute dominated sequence
6) slight Tomita, old school synth poppy space music
7) old school space music with retro synth/computer music feel
8) darker, intense noisier hypnofeel, overdriven aspects and feedback
9) dreamy droney looping
10) louder, more in your face looping
11) brief, bell-like
12) trippiness, droning
13) very similar to previous, guitar, organic
14) trippiness, less organic, sounds like being trapped in an aviary from heaven/hell
15) shorter, flute based
16) long, epic, the long form psyche, drone that you ordered, sir

Part 2.
1) very brief tone
2) brief flute meander
3) folky looped with vocals, like a traditional celtic song where everyone has eaten ergot infected bread
4) really nice, droney yet melodic, lovely yet weird
5) loopy hypnotic, use of tamboura/drone works well, plodding beat, feel
6) tamboura drone, spacey
7) flutes dominate, musical, pretty
8) spacey strummy, some vocs
9) looped simple flute theme with guitars, trippy and perfect
10) somewhat brief, flutisms
11) the renaissance folk unfolds
12) brief again, amalgam that includes pump organ
13) brief again, dark tone
14) layered with 70’s styled space electronics, backwards masking, more complex and interesting
15) brief
16) pretty, with guitar, synth tones
17) a beautiful drone, strings flutes and layers, recorded live, just sublime
18) guitar dominated, almost a folky song, flute

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Charting

2011-01-30 — 2011-04-03 Classical/Experimental
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Mar 20 3
Mar 13 2
Mar 6 2
Feb 27 3
Feb 20 3
Feb 13 1
Feb 6 2

Track listing

1. Grey Transitional Screen
2. Flying Lake
3. Woman Smoking
4. Bunch Of Buildings
5. Whisking Flour In A Pan
6. Pan Ants
7. Apartments
8. Cut Fruit Oil Shaving
9. Freeway
10. Rainbow Fields
11. The Way North
12. Technicolor Couple Eagle Shirt
13. Bacon At Sink
14. They Are Everywhere
15. Above Apartments
16. Forest Temple
17. Gray Transitional Screen
18. Server Room Woman
19. Conservatory
20. On The Roof
21. Butter
22. Mystic Islands In The Trees
23. Under Bridge
24. Radio And Guitar
25. Rolling Dough
26. Traffic Towards
27. Cityscape
28. Redevelopment Plan
29. Retail
30. Video
31. Rocks
32. Tiny Hands
33. Boop (Live)
34. Doctor Office