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Moraines - Paul Bradley & Cría Cuervos This combined effort opens a new chapter in the discography of Paul Bradley and Eugenio Maggi a.k.a. Cría Cuervos, but you'd better look for more infos on their personal sites. The layout is great and the "scorn-godflesh-early-Earache" microscopic view on the front cover is the perfect image for this work. The sound quality is definitely top notch, Bradley kicked ass behind the mixing desk and Cría Cuervos with the last two releases finally gets the "hi-profile" trademark required from his works. The music is surprisingly melodic and it's embodied by some minimal droned melodies, soft noises and electronic/ambiental high frequency sounds are the canvas (I'd say that's Maggi's own touch). This cd is based on a long and elaborated track, I think it could have been separated into different movements but at last crescendos and diminuendos highlight the passage to each different atmosphere. While for the first twenty nine minutes you got a sad, depressed (ambiental?) mood, with the second part of "moraines" the Stendhal syndrome takes over and the canvas (a.k.a. the soft white noise -sort of-), the initial image starts fading in the mist and it shows the testament of the early isolationists has found some heirs?. The final descent of the song reminds me of that wicked work Popol Vuh wrote expressly for Herzog's work of art "Aguirre". In my book the second half of the cd is that typical exhibit of "music where nothing is happening" that is satisfactory for every listener about to sink, nay the whole listening is nothing but a pleasant and gradual dipping. Andrea
Ferraris, ChainDLK
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