Textured Bird Transmission
"Blazing Animal Faces" CDR
Dead Sea Liner
Genre: drone, noise, ambient
Weymouth, UK
Feb 27, 2009 |
I'm only just learning about the Dead Sea Liner label but I'm really
starting to like it. This sterling release comes packaged in a
hand-painted cover whose acrylic droplets have been molded into vein
patterns. Musically speaking, Textured Bird Transmission's
Blazing Animal Faces is a hazy experiment in dream-drone,
cautiously treading the line between ethereal bliss and
a more odious,
dark ambience.
There is a strong sense of mystery to several of these
compositions, including David Lynch-esque "At Night, Nature is in
Mourning for the Loss of the Sun" and dense, hypnotic masterpiece
"Black Holes Have Eaten the Sky." Meanwhile, strangely organic "Dawn
Such Abyss" provides a tremendous endpoint for the disc, burying a
pretty piano line in sonic fog before diminishing into nothing at all.
Drone enthusiasts should take a gander, as this inspired CDR release
fits well alongside some of the bigger names on the scene. Textured
Bird Transmission doesn't challenge any genre
conventions, but nevertheless Blazing Animal Faces is a
solid ambient album perfectly calibrated for
eerie walks down desolate ghost town streets. Leave it to this
anonymous entity operating out of Weymouth to produce a record that's
both profoundly organic and eerily post-apocalyptic.
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"a martlet never lands" video
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 5 tracks, distributed by
the
label,
released April 2008] |
