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REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
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2xCD-R Auricle AMCDR 193/4 £11.00
bandcamp download
mp3 download
duration:
109'23"
CD1...
1. My Shadow Mimics My
Dance 9'27"
2. Aversion Therapy 1'07"
3. Curiously Existential 7'18"
4. Moonwater 5'17"
5. The Riddle Of Alice 4'23"
6. Mandala 0'48"
7. Evan's Barn 3'15"
8. Perpetual Motion 2'02"
9. Mountain 8'44"
10. Inevitable
Creature 6'56"
11. Id 0'16"
CD2...
1. Silhouette 2'02"
2. Mind Trouble 4'06"
3. Surface Tension 4'48"
4. Metatron 1'50"
5. Members Of The
Academy 5'23"
6. Electric Air 2'11"
7. Secret Chamber 2'53"
8. Hypertensive 3'57"
9. Reality Is Not What
It Used To Be 22'25"
10. Partly
Particle 4'43"
11. Is This How We
Fly Away? 2'08"
12. Another Shadow 2'44"
Recorded
live at Tachyon Studio, Leicester 23 October 2011 & 2 January 2012.
Mixed 26-29 December 2012. Engineer: Alan Freeman..
Alan: keyboards, electronics, computer, guitar.
Steve: electronics, sounds, loops, bass, objects.
Dave: flute, hurdy gurdy, guitar, etc.
Review...
"Reality Is Not What It Used To Be" covers a lot of ground,
with dense fabrics of electronics, Mellotron textures, sizzling tonalities,
flute, guitars, the reliably twisted hurdy gurdy, loops and the barest of
melodic/rhythmic elements. Some of it very minimal, ranging to the quite
intense. 22 shorter (0'16" to 9'27") works that add up to a surreal
trek with recurring themes and variations and a major 22 minute opus title
track as the big mind-bender towards the end of disc 2.
The very nature of Triax as a purely improv trio means that nothing is
certain during a typical afternoon and evening session. Of course, first off,
it depends on what instruments Dave brings with him, and then what new
samples, loops, patches and other such things are used. The mood of the day,
the weather - all are factors. And the albums that result? Well, that depends
on how much was recorded and what constitutes coherent works, or fragments
that can be isolated, or the material that can be reconstructed. Sometimes it
can be most of a session, or - as with the 2 sessions culled here - a lot of
pieces that when shuffled, reconstructed, etc. can be re-crafted into an
album that works.
Versions...
CD-R - released 1/1/2013.
Bandcamp download - released 22/9/2014.
Routenote distributed download - released 4/4/2019.
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