(fax) Orphan Waves

[Graham Banting]

Oops, I meant palate.

On 3/30/06, Graham Banting <gbanting at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> >
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