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April 11, 2005
eluvium :: talk amongst the trees
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It's incredibly difficult to write about ambient music; it lends itself to amateur prose poetry. So, instead, I'll simply present you with a list of the ingredients that make up good ambient music:
Shifty Drones
Melodies That Sneak Up On You
Reversed and Looped Stuff, Decontextualized
Hum, Hiss, and Other Warm Sounds Of Electricity
Smearing Echo
Misty Reverb
Ingredients that are not allowed:
Noises Made By Mouths (Except For Oohs and Aahs)
The Sound Of A Thing Banging Into Another Thing Percussively (Except When Reversed)
When it's all done right, it can be a very beautiful thing, and such is Talk Amongst The Trees. Ambient music runs a line between concretely melodic and abstractly droned, with too much of the former resulting in New Age and too much of the latter resulting in sleep or forgetting. This third Eluvium splits the difference nicely - it begins with a almost-too-engaging-to-be-ambient emerging melody piece, moves into some more ephemeral droney stuff, and comes back home to cadence-ville (if you don't know what I mean by cadenceville, I'm prepping a theory on "cadence porn", which is music made entirely of sweetly resolving chord progressions such as Sigur Ros. A cadence is basically a sensible chord progression. Trust me. You'll have to wait for it.)
This review by Christopher Alexander in cokemachineglow takes the trouble to try to pull the pieces apart and describe what's going on.
Background: Eluvium is one guy, Matthew Cooper. This is his third album, and it's perhaps more accomplished than the first but more of an excellent partner to it. That disc, Lambent Material, featured more some repetitive piano-based stuff and one long pretty noisy piece. The disc in the middle, An Accidental Memory in the Case Of Death, is one that I haven't gotten to, but I understand it's very different and entirely composed of contemplative solo piano pieces.
Beautiful photographs in the liner notes, by the way.
Samples:
New Animals From The Air (edit) (mp3) (from the label site, Temporary Residence)
Everything To Come (mp3)
Posted by borrowed_tunes at April 11, 2005 11:23 PM
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Comments
This sounds killer! If these clips are any indication of where the rest of it goes, it might top Lambent Material.
Posted by: Drunk Uncle at April 15, 2005 04:09 PM
It's pretty consistent with these. I think I like it better than Lambent, but that's one of those choices I'm glad not to have to make!
Posted by: borrowed tunes at April 15, 2005 05:43 PM