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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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ARTIST: DENT, LOREN
TITLE: Anthropology Vol. 1
LABEL: INFRACTION |
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| DESCRIPTION: Roland Barthes called it 'the grain of the voice,' in writing of how a singer's vocal contours may tap into ineffable meanings above and beyond words and melody: a semiotics of sound colour in which text cedes to texture, and audio kicks come from tuning into tone tricks over lyrics. Now there may be no song sung on Anthropology Vol. 1, but its lines - liquid, labyrinthine - and the sounding arc of its dives - the shiver in its timbres - bring to mind the idea of grain. It comes from the sound's sheer materiality and bodily affect, and in Loren Dent's bent - channeling vectors of New Music, minimalism, ambient, postrock, and space music through a vibrant array of his own voicings.
Dent's Anthropology traverses considerable terrain: opener, "Introduction - Dreams and Concrete," moves from Feldman to Niblock, before picking up on Pärt in transition to "This Thing We Enjoy," where borders of Basinskian melancholia are skirted,and a quiet Stars of the Lid glow flirted with. It ends up on "Another Rural Fantasy" and "Winter During Wartime"in a swooping fizzing orchestralism suggesting Christopher Bissonnette vs. Tim Hecker. The preceding parade of references is offered only by way of a rough guide, for the music of Anthropology is cast by Dent in tones he owns, more sweeping in scale than any of the above, great tonal gushes surging into swelling symphonics, then running off into pools of pop pointillism. |
| ITEM NUMBER: 10532 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $13.29 |
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