Beschreibung
re-issue of one of the most wanted Drones finally available (originally released in 2003). Red vinyl & new full-colour cover artwork by URE THRALL, ed. of 300. „URE THRALL is an American artist from Houston, TX (living since years in the Bay Area) who is long active in the more atmospheric- transcendental experimental US-scene – in former days he was a member of the pre-VOICE OF EYE project CRUOR and later with ASIA NOVA, and he also participated in the two first V.O.E. – CDs as a guest musician. Now, apart from being a member of SMOOTH QUALITY EXCREMENT, he works solo and creates most impressive soundscapish depth-drones with an incredible emotional quality, harmony & sadness melting together into beautiful aural visions. This 7,“ his first vinyl-release as URE THRALL, contains two long tracks (> 8 min.) with an organic, filmic & sublime quality, using echo-flutes, bass, e-bowed guitar & restrained percussion underneath. THE TRAVELER with all its majestic harmony seems to be like an endless travel through emotional fields of melancholia – expressing the endless search for something once known which is lost forever and you can’t even remember what is was, but you feel that you need it back existentially! Perfect music for endless drives on highways (both physically and spiritually)… The title track PREMONITION 9/11 is less relaxed and more of a threatening quality, using faster percussion and strange bass-patterns with oriental sounding flutes & swirling sound-effects. This track also uses field-recordings from the tragical events happened on 11. Sept. 2001 in NYC and must be also seen as a treatment of traumatic experiences. The whole 7″ is a personal statement about the politics of the USA after this tragic day, which is expressed also in the cover-artwork and the liner-notes: „THE COVER ART is an effigy of the American Flag in decay and is composed of an extreme close-up shot of the World Trade Center moments before its collapse, its occupants leaning out the windows fully aware of their impending transition to the next plane of existence.“ [original press release January 2003] (drone) DR-58:
GENRE: DARK AMBIENT, RITUAL