I PUT THIS ONE ON STRAIGHT AFTER THE LAST RECORD (THE GROUND BELOW ABOVE OUR HEADS) AND THOUGHT 'WOW IT IS AMAZING HE HAS FOUND A SIMILAR SOUND 13 YEARS LATER' BUT IT TRANSPIRES THAT TWO ORGANS WAS ACTUALLY RECORDED AROUND THE SAME TIME AND THEREFORE POSSIBLY COMES OUT OF SOME OF THE SAME PRECEPTS AND OBSESSIONS.
I WOULD GUESS I AM NOT THE FIRST ONE TO SUGGEST THIS SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT LIKE STEVE REICH - MORE HIS ERA OF PHASING THAN HIS BYZANTINE REPETITIVE ENSEMBLE MUSIC. ON THE SURFACE I SUPPOSE IT IS DRONE/AMBIENT MUSIC WITH A NOD TOWARD THE KOSMICHE, BUT WHAT IS PROBABLY WAY MORE INTERESTING IS THE INTERNAL SOUND OF THE ORGAN AND THE WAYS, UNIQUE TO EVERY ORGAN, THAT THE WIND SYSTEM WORKS AND PRODUCES THESE QUIVERING RHYTHMS AND DIFFERENT INTENSITIES AND EMPHASES. JIM'S JUST HOLDING DOWN ONE MASSIVE CHORD ACROSS TWO ORGANS, BUT IT FEELS LIKE A UNIVERSE OF SOUND TWISTING AND GYBING IN THE WIND.
THE TWO PIECES ARE FUNCTIONALLY SIMILAR BUT BOTH HAVE THIS EFFECT THAT REWARDS CLOSE LISTENING WHILST ALSO BEING TOTALLY LULLING IF YOU SWITCH OFF MOMENTARILY, GETTING LOST IN THE FLUID RHYTHMS LIKE EDDYING WATER. THE HARMONIES ON TRACK ONE ARE MORE PLEASANT WHILST ON TRACK TWO THERE IS A SLIGHT DISQUIETING TENSION INSERTED INTO THE MIX NOW AND AGAIN.
INTERESTING STUFF. NOT QUITE CERTIFIED: GOOD BUT DEFINITELY WORTH A LISTEN.
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