Time for another message in the middle of the bottom as my attention turns towards music of a more experimental nature and “Sea of Red” by Blood Rhythms is most definitely an experimental album.
You certainly get value for money with this album as there are over 90 minutes of what might best be described as a musical collage here with all fifteen of these songs – if such they are – resonating with a coherence that belies their construction from loops, soundbites and distortion manipulation. It would certainly be true to regard this album as disquieting and almost the antithesis of any album from the ambient genre that might use the same constructional components yet there is an underlying logic – structure seems somewhat inappropriate – to all that you hear. This is not music that you might lose yourself in. This is not music that you can hum whilst you sit at the traffic lights of life and, devoid of the directional coherence usually provided by words, the actual artistic intent always remains unclear. This might not even be music as the man in the street might understand it nor, despite the technology used to create it, could it be the product of the infernal machine. The result is, curiously, more organic than you might expect.
Should you listen to this album? Well, why not. The whole world is in imminent danger of decomposition so a soundtrack to our collective unravelling seems rather appropriate and, if you want to get physical, you can even buy this album on cassette.
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