Word: ambiente
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Also, the two relatively chilled-out tracks, “Make Love” and “Emotion,” work fairly well as slow ambient pieces. Not because they’re less repetitive than the others, but because the beats aren’t intrusive enough to get on your nerves...
...songs on the beautifully composed album contain ‘quoted’ material of some sort—excerpts from television programs and radio plays, overheard conversation, and ambient noises are recombined and re-contextualized to take on new meaning, supplemented with vocals and an arsenal of instruments, home-made and otherwise...
...Think of this as a kind of exorcism—a way to show multiple perspectives of sound and image. Plus there’s the whole idea of ambient cinema. I come out of a tradition of collage—Harry Smith, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Ives, all European/Anglo American traditions, meet stuff like GrandMaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata and the Bomb Squad that produced Public Enemy. Plus I remix old blues records for the show as well. The idea is to apply DJ technique to cinema, but to keep things well chilled...
...missteps occur when the band attempts to stretch a really great three and a half minutes into a six minute mini-epic that lacks forward motion. Bixler and Rodriguez have forgone that problem, not resting on any patterns—other than some near-patience-breaking extended stretches of ambient noise—for too long. The ambience serves as a segue between the music as they sustain one continuous unit, five segments of which make up the track listing, some with their own accompanying subsections...
Still, the long stretches of ambient blips and beeps are an exasperating bump in the road. Even if Bixler and Rodriguez maintain the need to provide transitions between segments, do they really have to be so arduous? The duo has ambition seeping out of their pores; restraining their indulgences would do them much good...