I’ve always said that there is something special about vinyl. Despite its many flaws and limitations, it seems to be the natural home for the more ethereal forms of music. This single by Christina Carter certainly qualifies as ethereal as both “Obelisk” and “Tholos” seem disconnected from the noise and crudity of modern life.
With no words either, these songs are devoid of any frame of reference that would locate them in one place in the continuum of space and time. Instead, Ms Carter’s hauntingly beautiful voice and accompanying tinkling bells takes these two songs into devotional, even quasi-religious territory with Gregorian chants being a perfectly valid frame of reference.
In a thousand years when the human race has finally managed to drown itself in the sea of inconsequence, some space traveller will find a time capsule amongst the debris left by that once great civilisation. As it would be only right and proper that Christina Carter’s music be included in that time capsule, the space traveller would not doubt be led to wonder how a civilisation capable of such beauty could have collapsed. The answer to that is, my friend, blowing in the wind.
The single was mastered by Pete Swanson which is, as always, a good thing and, as you might expect, is available in a limited edition of 300 copies.