Mollusk: Accretions

mol-a.jpg (21k) Mollusk: Accretions
(the Foundry - 2001)

Avast ye barnacles... Capt. Malcolm Bly has emerged from the briny depths with another fine catch from the maw of the Mollusk. Shiver me poopdeck... (Ugh... that doesn't sound right; okay, I'll deep six the wacky pirate lingo!)

It's Accretions (I don't know about you, but I *like* a title that makes me grab my dictionary!), a 62-minute-long voyage to the bottom of the murkiest underwater environments.

Almost-music is almost-heard through the densely billowing waves which ooze primordially through the sea. Immerse yourself in the ominous liquids surrounding barnacle: archipelago (10:04) for a prolonged soak in a mysterious subaquatic soundworld. The semi-rhythmic popping of evolution of the snail's brain pt.1 (2:29) is sometimes accompanied by odd fluttering swishes.

Weirdly wriggling frequencies squirm up and down evolution of the snail's brain pt.2, whereas evolution of the snail's brain pt.4 is submerged in an ocean of loudly squawling (then receding) feedback. The final piece of that series (pt.6) finds sporadic blips bubbling up from the wavering deep which teems with bass (bass with a long "a", as in low tones, not short "a" like fish) activities.

Stormy swells buffet barnacle: island in an intriguingly mythic deluge. Less intriguing are the puzzling little squeaks and ripples of the cry of the distant nautilus which don't seem distant at all... too near, in fact.

The waves which flow from Mollusk tend to be gentle, if a bit strange; the Accretions of their abstract-though-thematic soundstreams flow jointly into an esoteric 8.4 sonic tidepool of deep listening.

Soon to be released from the Foundry..w.

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This review posted September 29, 2001

AmbiEntrance © 2001-1997 by David J Opdyke (except CD cover art, rights retained by original owners).