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Artist: Various
Album: Christina Carter & Black Forest/Black Sea Split (2004, Time-Lag)
Label:
Year: 2004
Genre:
RIAA Radar Status: UNKNOWN
Encoder:
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
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Avg Bit Rate: 210 kbps
Posted by: smallpaul
Description / Review:
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Track Listing
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[01/07] Known Spin (Christina Carter) (5:24) 223 kbps 8.73 MB
[02/07] Joy Shapes (C Version) (Christina Carter) (7:51) 228 kbps 12.92 MB
[03/07] Namaste Blues (Christina Carter) (8:12) 224 kbps 13.23 MB
[04/07] To Be Drunken (Black Forest/Black Sea) (4:17) 176 kbps 5.49 MB
[05/07] Ectomist (Black Forest/Black Sea) (5:22) 203 kbps 7.89 MB
[06/07] Haze of Beating Wings (Black Forest/Black Sea) (10:33) 178 kbps 13.57 MB
[07/07] Orion 2 (Christina Carter and Black Forest/Black Sea) (6:39) 235 kbps 11.32 MB
Total number of files: 7
Total size of files: 73.20 MB
Total playing time: 48:18
Generated: Sunday, May 4, 2014 8:40:00 AM
Created with: #indie.torrents NFO Generator (Mac) v2.3b1
Uploaded by smallpaul 9 hours and 13 mins ago
Album info
Black Sea, Time-Lag Records has released a split CD that displays why the pairing is a flawless one. The packaging bears the trademark care and attention that has come to be expected from Time-Lag releases: a letterpressed trifold cardboard cover with a simple yet evocative design.
Christina Carter?s solo recordings often occupy a state of peaceful repose. Listening to her contributions to this split CD one can feel the beat of their heart slowing to match the rhythm of the music. It breathes at a pace of a soul at perfect rest and cannot fail to soothe. On this release, Carter treats us to two solo versions of pieces that have recently appeared in full form on Charalambides releases. The version of ?Unknown Spin? (here titled ?Known Spin?) is so dreamily calming that even the intrusion of a passing siren outside the Waldron Arts Center where it was recorded fails to dampen the mood or distract from its quiet intensity. ?Joy Shapes? retains all the haunting yearning and power of the original with only a single guitar and Carter?s voice. It is impossible to establish a preference for the Charalambides? versions over those found here; they are as intricately related as wool and sweater. Carter?s final solo contribution is ?Namaste Blues?. Carter?s guitar simultaneously caresses and swoons as if guiding its owner through the maze of perturbations life offers. Carter?s playing on this track displays a delicate and breathtaking control. Even when barely audible, every motion is carefully plotted and executed. When Carter?s lullabye vocals eventually proclaim ?life is not a blessing and not a curse?, it is hard not to nod sagely in agreement; the message has already been delivered by the music that preceded it.
Black Forest / Black Sea?s half of the split continues their run of brilliant collaborative performances and features gorgeously nuanced pairings with United Bible Studies, Glenn Donaldson and a meditative ten minute opus with Stefano Pilia. Jeffrey Alexander and Miriam Goldberg here perform more of the inspired alchemy that graced their Last Visible Dog release ?Radiant Symmetry? earlier this year.
In ?To Be Drunken? (with United Bible Studies), the players feel their way through a tentative introduction to settle in around a woozy slide guitar riff with violin scrapes and shimmer. Slowly a yearning melody emerges from the violin and the gentle sweep of the guitar subsides. The piece tracks the flow and ebb of the musicians? interaction with the erratic grace that can sometimes arise from the title?s condition. ?Ectomist? begins with clattering and rearing glitchy beats and screeches that are settled by a glorious acoustic guitar and cello duo. Donaldson?s barely there vocals hover like a wisp of fog in the background and are constantly disappearing into the mix before bubbling up again briefly like a leaf carried downstream.
It is with ?Haze of Beating Wings? that Goldberg, Alexander, and Pilia reach a golden plain. Each instrumental movement reinforces and supports the other as the three build a glowing lattice. The individual ?wings? of each instrument only partially vanish into the soft blur the three create as they arc through the air. Ultimately each player retains a distinct voice throughout; never overwhelming the others in a perfect harmonious balance of cadence and timbre.
Carter, Alexander, and Goldberg re-unite on the final track for a version of ?Orion? (here called ?Orion 2?). Slightly longer than their original collaboration, it features all of the same skillful interplay as Carter?s guitar nudges, coaxes and envelops the feathery float of Alexander?s guitar and Goldberg?s omnichord. The simplicity and subtle directness of Carter?s solo phrasing finds a complex and sympathetic partner in Alexander and Goldberg as the two aesthetics entwine and coalesce into an enchanting whole. Though they share a release, the word split seems at best a misnomer; what remains with the listener is how much in harmony these artists actually are. 9/10 — Steve Rybicki (Foxy Digitalis)