Quintana Jacobsma / Revenge Of Giant Butterflies
Album: Revenge Of Giant Butterflies   Collection:General
Artist:Quintana Jacobsma   Added:Dec 2010
Label:International Corporation  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-01-02 Pull Date: 2011-03-06 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Feb 27 Feb 20 Feb 13 Feb 6 Jan 23 Jan 16 Jan 9
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1 2 3

Recent Airplay
1. Jun 02, 2012: The Mongrel's Stoop
Opening The Window
4. Feb 15, 2011: anti-heroine
A Language Like The Hum Of Bees Is Free Of An Architecture Of Joy Or Despair, Descent Into The Kaleidoscope Hive
2. Apr 26, 2012: maximum entropy ii
Insects Rising In The Sky
5. Feb 08, 2011: the X files
A Language Like The Hum Of Bees Is Free Of An Architecture Of Joy Or Despair, Descent Into The Kaleidoscope Hive
3. Feb 24, 2011: Orangeasm
Insects Rising In The Sky
6. Feb 01, 2011: meow
A Language Like The Hum Of Bees Is Free Of An Architecture Of Joy Or Despair

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2010-12-17
Experimental strings, lots of bow exchanges that get squeaky and rough, layers, loops, hypnotic, lovely, psychotic. From myspace: “Almost everyone knows about the infamous 18th century luthier, Quintana Jacobsma, who unwittingly aided a species of intelligent, giant butterflies to lay waste to the small village of Willabea. But almost no one has heard his last musical manuscripts, discovered recently at an estate sale by an estranged botanist and lovingly brought to life in musical form in these recordings on cello, double bass, violin, sitar, bowed guzheng.”


1) somewhat creepy sound collage with squealing strings, layers of dissonance
2) pretty squealing bow exchanges and droning strings, like a tamboura sorta, eastern flavor for sure, string washes of hypnodrone
3) slow drone of bowed strings, looped, pretty and organic and serene
4) another blessed out wash of strings and feedybacky stuff
5) and yet more, lovely stuff
6) tense layers of strings, pensive
7) more playful string sounds, noises to start, then they start to loop and build, layer upon themselves into a cacophony, cool!
8) looping, more of a harsher noisier noise feel
9) hollow and distant, but hauntingly lovely

Track Listing
1. Call Of The Butterfly   6. Opening The Window
2. Descent Into The Kaleidoscope Hive   7. Eleven Ascending Modes Of Transformation
3. A Language Like The Hum Of Bees Is Free Of An Architecture Of Joy Or Despair   8. In The Morning, See The Sun Through 1000 New Eyes
4. Insects Rising In The Sky   9. Evening Arrivals
5. The City And Its Many Passageways   .