Psych-O-Path Rec. Brendon Anderegg : Falling Air (US,2005)***'
Singer-songwriter Brendon Anderegg accompanies his songs with guitar and a few other instruments (guitars, bass, percussion, Rhodes, organ, banjo, laptop, accordion, glockenspiel), and he has the help of a couple of musicians on a few other tracks (with piano, trumpet, glockenspiel, violin, percussion, drums, organ, processing, harp). Still unusual, although more and more releases tend to follow this road, is the developed attention to instrumental and individual sound compositions. And the opener instrumental track, “The Open” isn’t just a textured introduction but a clever multilayered movement of a composition of intelligent rhythmic waves with beautiful tiny noise sounds mixed with something like the sound of moving shingle with also a bass pulse evolving. The songs are arranged well and are moody, with developed acoustic guitar. On “My Baby Bird” there is banjo and cello arrangements, on “One More Year” these arrangements are ambient sounds mixed with freeform acoustics and keyboards, on “The holes” we can hear very minimal computer driven beats mixed with acoustic beats, but it’s mostly the acoustic guitars with voice which lead the compositions.
This is his second album after a former Apestaartje Rec. release.
