VENETIAN SNARES
Winter In The Belly of a Snake
[Planet Mu, 2003]
Sometimes it's cold in Winnipeg. maybe that's why the city has for a while had such a great musical tradition. Releasing 3 full-lengths over the past year alone, Aaron Funk has proven himself an interesting and prolific musician in control of his digital tools.
Quietly you find yourself falling down "Stairs Song", a melodic trope repeated while suggesting its own decay, while the highs in "Gottrahmen" and the bass in "Suffocate" sigh in melancholy. Many stringed instruments are filtered in the process; funk knows the eroticism in torturing his subject, as proven by his exquisitely controlled DSP abuse. And yet, he remains polite beneath his exterior: melodies and beats are frequently sentimental and sometimes a bit too obvious to be truly "out-there" experimentally speaking.
There's even a lyric or two (Danzig!?!); the opener "Dad" is beautifuly tragic pop featuring Aaron himself in song. An underlining beauty and fragility in Winter ensure the repeated listens which truly illuminate this music. certainly the evolution of drill and bass post label_host Muziq's output. One gets a sense of the typography in which he locates beats, surfaces, and passages of narrative composition: dark, but not as cavernous as his earlier "Doll Doll Doll".
Snares's abrassively succinct and complex programming throught the album truly demonstrates that there is a interesting and accessible ghost in his machine.
MP3: Venetian Snares - Stair Song
No comments:
Post a Comment