_____ ______ _____|_ |_ ______ ______ ____ _____ _______ ______ / \\ _/ _//_ //_ // __// // _ \\ /____ _/ _\ | /___/ _/ / \_ /_ \ /\ \_ _\\____/\_______|. |________\________________/_____________/\_____//_ <--------------cDr| ____|m's----------------------------------------------> | AFTERGLOW 2001 |/ proudly present: | | Ashra - New_Age_of_Earth | |----------------:------------------------------------------------------| | SUPPLIER :machinelf | | RIPPER :machinelf RELEASE DATE:May-03-2001 | | ENCODER :LAME RELEASE SIZE:65,8 MB | | BIT RATE :192kbps 44,1kHz NR FILES:04 | | TYPE :Space LABEL:Virgin | |__ ___ _______________________________________________________________| _| _| . (_|(_| Notes: | : : | The title was more prophetic than most ù though Earth thankfully | | isn't quite so bathetic as any number of releases on Windham Hill, | | by this point Gottsching was well into his electronic phase, the jam | | freakouts of the earliest albums replaced by a clean, crisp | | electronic bed. Unlike the rigorous pulse of fellow Krautrock | | pioneers Kraftwerk, though, Gottsching generally favored a more | | consciously playful and simply beautiful approach, aiming to create | | pleasant music to just enjoy and relax to. If not as serious and | | avant-garde as other artists, Gottsching was still coming up with the| | goods, so quite why his later albums have been generally ignored in | | comparison remains a mystery. Opening track "Sunrain" sounds like it | | could soundtrack a narrativeless documentary on just that, or at | | least some sequence of nature photography; bright and sparkling, the | | synths and drum machines blend together nicely. "Ocean of Tenderness"| | has a similar sense of film accompaniment, being a gentle, minimal | | flow of keyboard shading, electronic chirps deep in the mix, and a | | soft lead melody that carefully unwinds throughout the lengthy track,| | with a low-key bass pulse appearing a few minutes in as contrast. | | "Deep Distance" lives up to the title nicely, combining sweetly | | spaced-out drones with minimal percussion that sounds like raindrops | | as much as anything else as lead melodies slowly come to the fore. | | "Nightdust," which takes up the original second side of the album, | | captures the original psych-jam feeling of Ash Ra Tempel more than | | anything else. A lengthy Gottsching guitar solo, heavily processed | | and extremely trebly, begins the piece over a series of soft synth | | shadings, leading to a marvelous composition with chilly, spectral | | keyboards and, later, deep electronic pulses and more straightforward| | guitar. It's a spectacular performance, showing that even on his own | | Gottsching's fire was still present, though aimed in other directions| | | |/------------------------------------------------------------------)\\\| _:_ t R A C k l I S T I N G . \:/ : . | : 01 sunrain 07:32 | : 02 ocean of tenderness 12:42 | : 03 deep distance 05:49 | : 04 nightdust 21:50 | |_ _____________________________________________________________________| :///------------------------- - - ------------------------------ - - -\\| : / _| ///__________________________________________________________________ _\ /// . / CONTACT INFORMATION: : | | | ExxXxxxx........................10MBIT........................Whq | | OPEN............................xxMBIT........................xxhq | | OPEN............................xxMBIT........................xxhq | | OPEN............................xxMBIT........................xxhq | | | | EMAIL: [email protected] IRC: Look for [swoop] on EFnet | |_ : |_||_ _____________________________________________________________ _ _ . ||_| : Group Info/News: | | | | Afterglow is a group concentrating on spacerock/ethnic/psychedelic | | progressive music. New members are very welcome to contact us at the | | e-mail above or at IRC. We are looking for rippers/sites or whoever | | that feels that can help us in any way. | | | |_ _| /_ __________________: :_________________ _\ \| A F T E R G L O W |/ -cDr/m's- |_ / __ ____ : ____ __ \ _| ASCII: CRUSADER/HF //((__))___|-X-|___((__))\\ :