Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Director Tammy Chang, the goal of Twilight is not just to awaken the dormant phantom of the '92 riots, but to use it to re-expose issues of racial segregation and inequality. "Someone who comes away from the show thinking that they've seen the 'black perception' of the Rodney King Beating, or the 'Latino' perspective on police brutality will have missd the point completely," she says. Though the Rodney King verdict and the ensuing riots have all but vanished from the discourse of this university, discredited for their sensationalism, Twilight reinstates their importance in the struggle...
...know what happened to them. Could a phenomenon--some sort of Bermuda Triangle for small fowl--have swallowed up both the sooty waddlers in Trafalgar Square and the sleek homing pigeons who flew over the Mid-Atlantic states? The answer, I realized, might lie forever in a sort of phantom file of mine that's growing thicker and thicker--the lost follow-up. Meanwhile, at my wife's insistence, I drained the pipes...
...this point, the most unexpected aspect of the entire album occurs: the CD changes from track one to track two without any delineation. "Anthropod" plays continuously, and at an indiscriminate moment, the four-minute quiet interlude becomes "Phantom Limb." There is no silence between songs, nor a change in melody. This is not an anomalous occurrence on the album, as the different tracks are just names given to indistinguishable parts of a single, seemingly interminable song that composes the whole of Experiment Below. Six minutes into the album, Hovercraft demonstrates promising innovations and intricate, sudden and powerful changes in rhythm...
...only other danceable track is "Benzedrine," but this is the result of a static beat pattern that could easily be imitated by using a drum machine and some subtle mixing. The repetition concludes with "Wire Trace" and "Epoxy," which are conspicuous replicas of the linked tracks "Anthropod" and "Phantom Limbs," but with slightly faster beats. As a result...
...difficult time understanding him, his hoarse screams went rather well with the thrashing guitars. He has a couple of thrilling two measure solos in "Blowin' Smoke" in which you can actually hear his voice. In the background, drummer Jeremy Thompson, once a member of the band Phantom Creeps, does what he can--which isn't too much...