(fax) Orphan Waves

[Graham Banting]

Haters be damned, I love this release. I like the fact that Spyra has
increased his pallet of sounds, yet kept it recognizable as Spyra. I'm
guessing the detractors of Spyra's work aren't Schulze fans either.

On 3/30/06, Christian <cvon at junglist.ca> wrote:
>
> I'd probably only add one observation to this (or maybe a few since I'm
> long-winded this week) - I really enjoyed Re:sonate. I'm not suggesting
> that all fax releases have to be out in uncharted territory, I just like
> to see artists and label catalogs grow rather than spew out repetitions
> (ie. Moby: Play -> Moby: 18 (aka the leftover tracks from Play), though
> I'm certainly not generalizing this to all Moby releases!), and I also
> like to see stuff that's not been done to death already. Re:sonate to me
> was great and new because it fused so much of the classic Fax sound
> (Silence in particular) with dub to produce something I felt was new
> enough to really sink my teeth into, both in context of Fax, and Pete's
> work as an artist. (Now, that said, I don't know Gaudi from a hole in
> the wall, so this may have all been predictable to people more
> acquainted with his work.)
>
> Conversely, I didn't feel that Orphan Waves was either much of a
> departure from previous Fax work, or was much of a leap, evolution or
> growth for Spyra, nevermind the fact that as ambient goes, I find it's
> jazz/new-age vibe somewhat run-of-the-mill. As a yardstick, I would look
> at the various incarnations of Fax series' - consider the variations in
> FoO, Silence, Jet Chamber, etc. and you can see variation I don't find
> in Spyra's corridor of jazz/lounge/electro. Some of his non-Fax stuff
> seems to be a bit more broad though...
>
> To be fair, as I think Trevor mentioned, Spyra doesn't produce a 'bad'
> release, but I came into this with some high expectations, as I usually
> do of all Fax material. When it disappoints, inevitably, I'm ascerbic
> about it, though ultimately, that doesn't make it a bad release, just
> one that I don't think measures up to some exceptionally high standards.
>
> cheers,
> Christian.
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://monkeymail.org/archives/faxlist/attachments/20060330/ffd1a9f8/attachment-0001.htm