../melody in chaos
Wonderful review of the opening track of transient lines by marc weidenbaum of disquiet.com
…If noise music is ambient music turned up loud, then shoegaze is ambient music with a beat. Not just any beat, mind you, but a beat that emerges from the ebb and flow of the underlying drone, a beat that recognizes the rhythmic content in the flow of the drone and that latches onto it, building a hard lattice that supports the seemingly ethereal initial audio.
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15 november 2013
prologue: in recollection and amazement |
improvised guitar drones, loops and melody lines over beats.
guitar / amp:
jolie (gibson es-335 dot reissue, peekamoose custom electronics)
vox ac4c1-bl tube combo
efx chain:
(ebow –) earthquaker “warden” compressor –ehx pog2 –ehx freeze –ibanez ts-808 tube screamer –small sound/big sound mini overdrive –tc electronic flashback delay+looper –strymon blue-sky reverberator –line6 pod xt phaser modeler
software / hardware:
sony acid, motu 828mk2, XP
title is reference to jack kerouac’s “list of essentials” in his belief & technique for modern prose:
17.…
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