The Kirghiz Light

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 10 13:50:47 CDT 2005


Rapoon's "The Khirghiz Light" makes tolerable
background music:

[...] A founding member of pioneering
post-industrial/experimental band :zoviet*france:
(AMG), Rapoon (AMG), aka Robin Storey, has produced a
large body of solo work that is influenced by Can,
Neu!, Stockhausen, Cage, and especially Eno and
Hassell. Rapoon is one of the most musically important
non-classical artists I will ever be privledged to
post about on this blog. He has released 7 of his
magnificent, groundbreaking albums through Magnatune.
[...] The Kirghiz Light is a 2-CD epic ambient poem
that pushes percussion to the background in favor of
sound texture manipulation and loop mixing. The human
voice is often invoked. Several tracks “We Fell Like
Rain”, “Frostling Merge”, and “Into Light”) introduce
entirely new ideas to the genre, however minute. The
album is monumental. [...] 

http://freealbums.blogsome.com/2005/09/02/rapoon-several-albums/



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