Ambient Time Arm by NaDa BaBa
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Recorded in the far north of Sweden in June-August 2005 this is the second CD by NaDa Baba (the first is Yidaki Mind Tree, also on the Internet Archive). It was released on Music Your Mind Will Love You records and remains available there in a hand made case.
Review from Unbroken Circle:
http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/special_features-mandrake_screams_3.htm
On their second release 'Ambient Time Arm', the primitive Australian soundscapes of NaDa BaBa take us back not decades but hundreds of years. This is not the comfortable ambience of living room hi-fi this is the trance inducing, smoke haze of the desert. Chanting, pounding slow ritual percussion and the resonant pulsation of didgeridoo take the listener into dreamtime on the first track. Fragmented spoken word and shards of guitar re-enforce that this is not our reality, but that we are trapped inside our dreams, as backward speech and screaming insects tear at our reason. 'Stone Fish Bone' intones a ceremony with Jews harp, metallic scrapes and overlapping, magical speech.
We hear disturbed and enthralled, escape forgotten for the moment. As the album progresses with lots of speech and field recordings, this moves from music into a kind of film for the ears. A surreal and strange film, but one with its own odd structure. All the time remorseless didgeridoo constant and unyielding. It appears to make sense but without the listener grasping what it is communicating, the sound of language more important than meaning. Like a collaboration between 'Tape Beatles' or Negativeland and Steve Roach this is a particularly unique and weird release. You have to admire how far out they have got, even if you can be grateful for not sharing the experience. Time in the desert never seemed so essential.
Go to http://mymwly.blogspot.com/
Review from Unbroken Circle:
http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/special_features-mandrake_screams_3.htm
On their second release 'Ambient Time Arm', the primitive Australian soundscapes of NaDa BaBa take us back not decades but hundreds of years. This is not the comfortable ambience of living room hi-fi this is the trance inducing, smoke haze of the desert. Chanting, pounding slow ritual percussion and the resonant pulsation of didgeridoo take the listener into dreamtime on the first track. Fragmented spoken word and shards of guitar re-enforce that this is not our reality, but that we are trapped inside our dreams, as backward speech and screaming insects tear at our reason. 'Stone Fish Bone' intones a ceremony with Jews harp, metallic scrapes and overlapping, magical speech.
We hear disturbed and enthralled, escape forgotten for the moment. As the album progresses with lots of speech and field recordings, this moves from music into a kind of film for the ears. A surreal and strange film, but one with its own odd structure. All the time remorseless didgeridoo constant and unyielding. It appears to make sense but without the listener grasping what it is communicating, the sound of language more important than meaning. Like a collaboration between 'Tape Beatles' or Negativeland and Steve Roach this is a particularly unique and weird release. You have to admire how far out they have got, even if you can be grateful for not sharing the experience. Time in the desert never seemed so essential.
Go to http://mymwly.blogspot.com/
Notes
You have never heard didgeridoo like this before.
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- 2006-02-15 22:42:21
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April 16, 2006
Subject: covers a lot of ambient ground
Subject: covers a lot of ambient ground
This is one of the few vocal albums that I would give the ambient nod to. The vocal usage is tasteful and layers in nicely with the drumming and didgeridoo playing.
Chanting and atmospheric sounds complete the picture.
When downloading this, I deleted track 6 as anything with GWBUSH's voice in it makes me want to retch.
But other than that, well worth a listen.
This would be 3.5 to 3.8 stars if I could give a more detailed rating.
Chanting and atmospheric sounds complete the picture.
When downloading this, I deleted track 6 as anything with GWBUSH's voice in it makes me want to retch.
But other than that, well worth a listen.
This would be 3.5 to 3.8 stars if I could give a more detailed rating.
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