Fans of Mystified and Saluki Regicide will be quite pleased to know that these two have pooled their creative resources in this, their first collaboration.
It's a concept album, of sorts, with the tracks being inspired by past inventions, from the mighty ("Ziggurat") to the mind-bending ("LSD"), from the practical ("Electric Stoplight") to the pointless ("Spider's Ladder"). And in the execution of these compositions, the artists sought to convey impressions, rather than illustrations of the technologies. Thus, the work is less about the inventions themselves than about the mind's experience of the inventions. The results are often dreamy, almost shamanistic.
Thomas Park, of Mystified, brings into his work equal doses of illbient, minimal, industrial, ambient, experimental, and a handful of other esoteric styles, and to good effect. C.P. McDill of Saluki Regicide seeks to bend time and space, or at least soundwaves, to do his bidding.
You can visit The Mystified homepage for more information and to meet the man behind the magic.
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"I dig this...these sounds remind me in a strange way of obscure educational tapes...as if discovered in the dusty bins of a basement or the like..evocative and cool!"
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Reviewer:HighCalm - - April 7, 2006 Subject: "Soundtracks to movies weve never really seen . . . . . ..except in the grand ole opry of our minds."
Saluki Regicide and Mystified, two titanic talents gracing the Webbed Hand label, offer up a veritable tapestry of sounds both lost and found in their Ancestral Technologies collaboration.
Ancestral Technologies alternates, overlaps, and percolates with sounds that slide between the spooky, the beautiful, the minimal, the cosmic - and the list goes on and on. But at all times, Ancestral is presented with panache [I would love to have heard it used in a movie like MirrorMask!].
I suppose if their were a Yellow Submarine of experimental ambience, this album would be it for me. Its weird, but stylish and undeniably cool. Its all over the place and yet deftly transports the listener from world to world without jarring or offending the ears sensibilities. We pass through these realms with the transparency of a bubble, and thus witness an overlapping entourage of times and places that we may reflect upon as well as allow to reflect within us.
The music of the Webbed Hand label has not only exposed me to a wide range of experimental and eclectic artists, but it has allowed me to re-examine my own notions and expectations of what can constitute excellent electronica. For though these artists share a kinship with the more mainstream ambient artists, they adhere to an experimental ethic which pushes itself beyond that mainstream and keeps them at the forefront of the ambient avant-garde. I intend on listening to this one many many times!
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