Kirghiz Light - the album

[Cal Godot]

=46rom a review I uncovered:



RAPOON The Kirghiz Light (Staalplaat)

Robin Storey, the main force behind Rapoon, was, until '92, involved in the
ever-enthralling Zoviet France. His current project takes that seminal
group=D5s ideas to possibly even higher peaks. Continuing to develop what wa=
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highlighted in the last Rapoon outing, 'Fallen Gods', 'The Kirghiz Light'
eschews the more abrasive elements of the ZF formula in favour of a deeply
meditative palette, which places him increasingly in the same field of
excellence as more 'serious' minimalist composers, such as Avro Part and
John Tavener. As with Part and Tavener, much of this 140 minute double CD
leaves you intoxicated: every whisper, every echo, every sound counts, its
meticulous construction and breathtakingly mature marriage of ethnic
percussion and high quality drones (noticable for their comparative
accesability) placing it effortlessly above the competition. A sense of
spirituality pervades throughout, with such tracks as 'Saffron Flies'
forcing their way trance-like into your consciousness, 'Jacobs Drum' even
sounding like Gregorian Chant reinterpreted for the end of the millennium.
On a more secular level, 'Into Light', with its simply addictive
(addictively simple?) percussion motif, shuffles along like a lost outtake
from Kraftwerk's 'Ralf and Florian' album, while 'Omnizdum' and 'We Danced
Like Sticks' concentrate on Indian percussion loops, to hypnotic effect.
Sounding both ancient and modern, this is just beautiful, beautiful music.


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