Shree Swifty review

Hallo and greetings to Tuners
another review- having waited patiently for Pat's album, I now present a
rerview of "The Canals Of The Atlantean Plain".
good and hearty wishes
LB

Pat is continuing, in part, - uniquely and bravely, a line from LaMonte
Young, and succeeds in creating an elaborate shimmering, a quivering of
cosmic, almost static music.

Its quite exciting to imbibe Pat's places of expression.....he is really
quite individual and has to me a healthy and strong appetite (which he
fulfils) to take music into remote, magical and intriguingly potent energy
fields.

There are parallel aspects of spiritual and futuristic elements in this
music, and they speak well to each other. Themes of ancient, tecnological
and occult (in the true sense of that word = that which is hidden) reside in
the titles.
A meditative energy is particularly prominent. I wasn't exactly sure how
directly the esoteric and occult titles applied to the music, other than
that Pat's work is cast as a mythical entity, rather than simply music to
listen to!

1)Queen Of Atlantis star signals and soaring drones, sounds that
breathe life, drones that soar and internalise a sense of the immensity that
lives insids us humans. Pat has a strong sense of the constant, of bypassing
contrast, that LaMonte has lived so fully. He also has travelled in that
magical direction.
The theremin is a ghostly musical saw of a sound, dialoguing really well
with the violin. The 60s still live! Reincarnated.

2)Isis Unveiled a delicate weave, gentle seas of sighing.......
violin again to the fore ..... cuts at the end to reverberation.

3) Atlantis Emerges Shades of Poppy Nogood Rich textures of
drones, layered more and more seas of voices this is ritual and
invocational music over and above the tuning relationships. Gradually more
tumbling and moving textures. Wild and impassioned violin figures (Pat?). A
frozen image of a hoedown having already disappeared down a black hole, with
slow images of its last moments emerging more slowly. Some beautiful delay
cycles, particularly at the end.

4) Nazca Shimmering floating - murmuring dialogues of delay cycle (?)
patterns, these are interspersed with sparse, heavily reverbed guitar
phrases in some huge room, this does evoke the leylines or ufo-landing
strip-like Nazca lines.

5) The Sun Rotating Around The Galaxy Drones, light signals of
rotating harmonics, central bass drone (galactic centre?) with orbiting
star shining timbres violin, like slow motion blues , like a western
alap in outer space well unmoored from its 12 bars. 8 minutes of silence at
the end, then the sun "rises" again.

It is a joy to have someone grasp ones music so fully.
Lawrence you are a very sensitive individual and a pleasure to correspond
with.
I must post to you all a review of Lawrences' Synth Improvs which are
fantastic.
give me a few days to gather the appropriate words.

cheers

Pat Pagano, Director
South East Just Intonation Society
http://indians.australians.com/meherbaba/
http://www.screwmusicforever.com/SHREESWIFT/
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Ball <Lawrenceball@planettree.demon.co.uk>
To: tuning <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: [tuning] Shree Swifty review

> Hallo and greetings to Tuners
> another review- having waited patiently for Pat's album, I now present a
> rerview of "The Canals Of The Atlantean Plain".
> good and hearty wishes
> LB
>
>
> Pat is continuing, in part, - uniquely and bravely, a line from LaMonte
> Young, and succeeds in creating an elaborate shimmering, a quivering of
> cosmic, almost static music.
>
> Its quite exciting to imbibe Pat's places of expression.....he is really
> quite individual and has to me a healthy and strong appetite (which he
> fulfils) to take music into remote, magical and intriguingly potent energy
> fields.
>
> There are parallel aspects of spiritual and futuristic elements in this
> music, and they speak well to each other. Themes of ancient, tecnological
> and occult (in the true sense of that word = that which is hidden) reside
in
> the titles.
> A meditative energy is particularly prominent. I wasn't exactly sure how
> directly the esoteric and occult titles applied to the music, other than
> that Pat's work is cast as a mythical entity, rather than simply music to
> listen to!
>
>
> 1)Queen Of Atlantis star signals and soaring drones, sounds that
> breathe life, drones that soar and internalise a sense of the immensity
that
> lives insids us humans. Pat has a strong sense of the constant, of
bypassing
> contrast, that LaMonte has lived so fully. He also has travelled in that
> magical direction.
> The theremin is a ghostly musical saw of a sound, dialoguing really well
> with the violin. The 60s still live! Reincarnated.
>
> 2)Isis Unveiled a delicate weave, gentle seas of sighing.......
> violin again to the fore ..... cuts at the end to reverberation.
>
> 3) Atlantis Emerges Shades of Poppy Nogood Rich textures of
> drones, layered more and more seas of voices this is ritual and
> invocational music over and above the tuning relationships. Gradually more
> tumbling and moving textures. Wild and impassioned violin figures (Pat?).
A
> frozen image of a hoedown having already disappeared down a black hole,
with
> slow images of its last moments emerging more slowly. Some beautiful delay
> cycles, particularly at the end.
>
> 4) Nazca Shimmering floating - murmuring dialogues of delay cycle (?)
> patterns, these are interspersed with sparse, heavily reverbed guitar
> phrases in some huge room, this does evoke the leylines or ufo-landing
> strip-like Nazca lines.
>
> 5) The Sun Rotating Around The Galaxy Drones, light signals of
> rotating harmonics, central bass drone (galactic centre?) with
orbiting
> star shining timbres violin, like slow motion blues , like a western
> alap in outer space well unmoored from its 12 bars. 8 minutes of silence
at
> the end, then the sun "rises" again.
>
>
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