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day 1 - a doorway .1 day 2 - they will hear me .2 day 3 - what keeps your vibrations low? .3 day 4 - dream resonance .4 |
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A : synths, sounds, voice, guitar, EVP, cut-ups, noises Melisa Migliorino : dream photography |
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an audio documentary of sorts. this album was recorded over the first four days of a heavy caffeine withdrawal, each day represented by the corresponding song. caffeine withdrawal for experts is one long piece of music, divided i nto four seperate "movements." musically it is very droning, hypnotic, and noisy (think COIL / TIME MACHINES / TRIBES OF NEUROT) you can send Melisa Migliorino fan mail at purexuma@yahoo.com |
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"...The first track/day is titled "A Doorway" and is the disc's longest track at 11 minutes. It does start off pretty droney with a near-soothing repeated guitar line ala a Red Sparowes or Neurosis build-up but then delves into a kind of Damion Romero/Hive Mind electronic/reverb-y pulse for the remainder of the tune. Day two's "They Will Hear Me" is the wildest deviation, building around a riff so excruciatingly cheesy it sounds like it was sampled from a club scene in a movie from the Blade trilogy, replete with pseudo-industrial flecks...think of Skinny Puppy and I probably don't have to say much else. "What Keeps Your Vibrations Low?" is a weirder jam that comes off like a noisier Aphex Twin or Merzbow at his least intimidating (maybe the Maldoror collaboration with Patton is a safe comparison)...it's never aggressive, it's just like a series of malfunctioning electronic units firing off occasionally under the watchful guise of a person...who happens to be undergoing caffeine withdrawal? Best is saved for last on "Dream Resonance", a kind of cross-pollination between Nurse with Wound or Coil's cold electronic nighttime ambience, Schnitzler modern-day synthesizer readings and the Clockwork Orange soundtrack played out blissfully over the course of the album's last nine minutes. "Dream Resonance", huh...lives up to the title's imagery for sure. Kind of a strange, tranquil ending to a strange album (or EP? It's only 34 minutes)..." - OUTER SPACE GAMELAN "Everything that I heard on this recording was spirited and had a great sense of adventure and expansive rebellion. The concept of the CD is that each of these songs was written sequentially, while the author goes for 4 days without caffeine. There isn't a whole lot of consistency to elaborate upon. The first song was a nice warm humming drone that sounded like an old ariplane flying overhead. I really liked it. I found it very calming and full of inspirational juice. The second song turned into an industrial rock experiment with heavy guitars and mechanical sounding percussion. This wasn't my favorite, but certainly was worth a listen. Then the CD flip-flops back into a cyber-noise kind of experiment with static, short-wave kinds of sounds and maybe some video game influence. IT is the kind of experiment where static is used as an instrument, often for a "sort-of " beat. At some points this track sounds like an old gas generator. The last song is a peaceful ambient kind of recording with strange little electronic reverberaltions swimming in and out of it like a liquid pool of ethereal dreams. It is very cool. It makes your brain all floaty. If I understand the concept, then I am guessing that day two is the worst day of caffeine withdrawl, because that was the heaviest, hardest, most pummeling track. Good experiment, cool concept. I don't know if other releases have a more cohesive sound." - NEOZINE |
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