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Re: Feed the Silence



congrats my friend
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>From: Adam Levin <alevin@DarkAether.Net>
>To: loopers-delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: Feed the Silence
>Date: Tue, Jun 29, 1999, 11:18 PM
>

>The following review is from pages 96-97 of the latest issue (#31) of
>Progression Magazine - available at your local Tower music store news
>stand:
>
>The Dark Aether Project: Feed The Silence (CD, 51:57); Dark Aether DAP2.
>
>It took about eight minutes before I was convinced that Dark Aether
>Project was onto something with their second disc, but convinced I
>remained. They open with what sounds like a sample from an old atomic-bomb
>scare documentary, out of which comes a heavy wave of wind. A Floyd-ish
>keyboard figure emerges, then leaves as, even more in the Pink, guitarists
>Adam Levin and Yaman Aksu play a wonderfully spacey duet, one flanged, the
>other more pointed, sustained. Aksu switches to Hammond organ, Brian
>Griffin kicks in with nicely restrained drumming, and by this time I'm
>blown away. This is - forgive my colloquialism - some serious shit.
>
>"Nightmare" has Levin dragging a Warr 8 String Touch Guitar loop across a
>"Not Fade Away" riff variant, in a lumbering dance groove that supports
>strong melodies, and a compelling vocal line sung by Ray Weston, ex of
>Echolyn. "Stages" cites _Three of a Perfect Pair_-era Crimson, but takes
>the influence into some interestingly different areas over its near
>nine-minute length. The band's ability to balance written material with
>kick-ass jamming fervor is very apparent in this piece. Warr loops are
>back on "Building the Worm" as Levin provides some beautiful space for he
>and fellow Warr Touch player Markus Reuter to land on, circle each other
>in a pas-de-deux of wild serenity, and end with a touch that'll take your
>breath away.
>
>Convinced yet? Weston's voice gets a marvelous showcase on the title
>track, with imaginitive vocal writing, and some hair-raising, Jim
>Morrison-like screams. _Feed the Silence_ also shows the band to be very
>adept at developing long-form compositions, with a harmonic
>distinctiveness and sensitivity to mood that recalls the late-1960s West
>Coast band Love.
>
>A nine-minute, live bonus-track, "Out of the Dark/Dark Aether" (I love a
>band with a theme song) opens in outer space, wah-wah'd, fuzzed out, and
>all but strained through a Leslie. Around three and a half minutes,
>there's a tantalizing hint of a move into tempo, but drummer Brian Griffin
>delays gratification for a while, finally ushering in a huge bass figure
>around which the loops bob and weave. The performance ends just as it
>began, Aksu and Levin sparring, circling, throwing flames of electricity
>at each other. The tune also shows that these guys can reproduce their
>studio genius with satisfying accuracy onstage.
>
>Dark Aether Project hits a lot of progressive rock pleasure points with
>_Feed the Silence_, but make no mistake: this is not another derivative
>band with little new to say. They are there, Bud, and this is an
>absolutely fabulous album. Go for it. - Larry Nai
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>
>"Feed The Silence" as well as The Dark Aether Project's self-titled debut
>are available from purveyors of fine music such as The Artist Shop, The
>Laser's Edge, New Sonic Architecture, Of Sound Mind, Syn-Phonic,
>Wayside/Cuneiform and ZNR Records.
> 
>For distributor contacts, sound samples, full concert schedule, venue
>directions and more info, visit http://www.DarkAether.Net/
>
>