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Calla - review
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Bret McCabe - The Metsound highway rising out of John Cage's Williams Mix and running deep into the dense woods of ambient, electronic textures.sound highway rising out of John Cage's Williams Mix and running deep into the dense woods of ambient, electronic textures. Along the way, Calla hits Ennio Morricone's cinematic tapestries, Godspeed You Black Emperor!'s urban decay dirges, and illbient's bent beats?that diversity permeates Calla's debut. Disarmingly ornate melodies slip and slide out of abrasive noise collisions; sheets of sounds dwindle to tone coils that blossom into surprisingly smooth grooves?a whirlpool of emotional depth....
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"Calla is the ideal amorphous musical state…"
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Alkemist - Boston Weekly DigAn empowered translucent trio of musicians who by trade drill like miners into a wall of experimental soundTake a musical hybrid of Mogwai and Spiritualized with rockabilly and garage roots and have the music stripped and deconstructed by Scanner. If gentle experimentally minimalist sounds are the soup de jour, then slurp slowly as you have your objective simmering in front of you....
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Flux Information Sciences - The best downtown band these days, bar none.
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Steven Blush | PAPERA NYC band, FLUX INFORMATION SCIENCES is incredibly intense heavy almost James Brown funk grooves with complete noise organized chaos along with it. They are a violent, hilarious, carnival, Las Vegas showbiz murder. Really fantastic entertaining live -like being beaten up by a guy in a clown suit. Larry Seven says the drummer is one of the best he's ever seen..."...
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Overall impression: excellent!
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Mark Weddle The Angels of Light is the new band led by Michael Gira, formerly of SWANS.Gira's first post-SWANS projects were the primarily instrumental The Body Lovers and The Body Haters (see also "Number One of Three", "34:13"). With The Angels of Light, Gira returns to vocal based songs. And it's so good to hear Gira's voice and words again! Lyrically "New Mother" is probably his most personal work to date. Many of these songs reflect Gira's relationships with himself, his parents and Jarboe (also of SWANS): his faults (alcohol comes up more than once), regrets, love, sorrow, repentance. It's a confessional of sorts, very honest and genuine. Gira has many voices here: spoken, melodic, hums, quiet whispers, fragile whimpers and the occasional grating caterwaul. These songs focus on Gira's vocals and guitar, similar to the quieter side of recent SWANS and Gira's '94 solo album "Drainland". A few are solely Gira ("How We End", "Fear of Death") while the rest are more fleshed out. All are relatively quiet ... you won't find crescendoing walls of electric guitar or drones here, they've been replaced with beautiful layers of melodic acoustic/organic instrumentation. The numerous musicians contributing to this album (many of......
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Calla - Review
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Christopher Porter - Alternative Pressexcelling where so many others have failed in this post-everything era of musicCalla touches on such iconoclasts as Paul Schutze, Tricky, Tom Waits and Ry Cooder without an overt nod to any of them. Calla are about quiet tension without release and music without boundaries. Obsessive futurists looking for new song forms may find them here....