Silber Rec.
Remora : Enamored (US,2005)*°'
The label defines this as 'post-apocalyptic-pop & drone'. In some way it’s a kind of 'best of', stripped from 100 recordings, and compiled with the help of Peter Aldrich, Jessica Bailiff, Jon DeRosa (Aarktica), Nathan Amudson (Rivulets) and Jamie Barnes. The music is full of deepdown vague sadness and skeletal expressions, following two chords or similar near death pulses of ambient guitar, from songs to instrumentals. It has some identity but stays so long in this depressed sphere, the hardest depths of life, for me can hardly be as tiring as this. It needed a few listens to reveal itself and for me to accept this world of slow consciousness and tiny inner musical variations. While my own character likes to bring things immediately into light, and to strive directly towards “life”, creating and giving life, here there’s no direct conscious choice of changing or uplifting anything. The changes come passively, slowly changing through pulses of an inherent variation. There’s no deliberate choice to get the creator out of the dark grey mood of emptiness and remorseless loss. Instead it’s a confirmation of this loss, without adding more expression to it, other than the inherent passiveness in it. This over-minimalism works somewhat like an ambient song mood thing, and there are a few moments of some sweetness in the voice changing the colour a bit, like on "Let it die on the 4th of July", or through a few layers of things that happen. Music without too many contrasts still is a dangerous area, that can easily fall back on repetition, and become tedious, and has a danger that the expression falls back into monotony. ..The colours of the flours might speak for themselves and the dusty air just is.. I guess this is a deliberate border line mood, with dust noise as beauty as the centred pulse, with momentous improvisational variations, a confirmation of the true existence of the one-centred being, where these surrounding repetitions create the chance to become a trance state of transcendence.
Earlier release with Pale, Horse & Rider and Rivulets, "The Alcohol EPs" you can read linked at the Rivulets page
