Martin Chalifour - Martin Chalifour in Walt Disney Concert Hall - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Martin Chalifour - Martin Chalifour & la Phil in Walt Disney [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/27/2011

Bézier ripples their way back to Dark Entries with Decompose, an LP of doomed spa music. Multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang has made numerous appearances on Dark Entries for more than a decade, with releases spanning the stylistic gamut from hi-NRG disco floor-fillers to rich ambient epics. Decompose, Bézier's second LP, is perhaps his most introspective work yet. It is an album almost ten years in the making, a deep investigation of life, loss, and the struggle of knowing oneself. If one were to pull a tarot deck for this album it would be the Nine of Swords. The album honors the lives of the fallen victims of Pulse Nightclub. It honors lives lost or suffering through the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The title track takes the form of a Buddhist chant, a brooding synth-driven meditation that scales steadily until breaking into John Carpenter-esque arpeggios halfway through. Tracks like InchEgg,Inch InchMarionette,Inch and InchA Fading Citadel Atop Black Sand BluffsInch build on this soundworld, one in which intricate melodies and cavernous reverb induce in the listener feelings of both claustrophobia and free-fall. The album's dancefloor-leaning moments, like InchCodebreakingInch and InchSplit a Path Towards the ThicketInch are spartan, tunnel-vision techno tracks speeding towards ego-death. Decompose chronicles Yang's journey to find peace with himself, as a gay Asian American. During this process, they learned to InchrepotInch long-lost parts of their identity so they could grow forth in wholesome fashion. The sleeve for Decompose was designed by Eloise Shir-Juen Leigh, and features a photograph by Frankie Casillo of Robert laying on a bed of rocks in savasana pose, resembling an ascetic, evocative of the monastic vibes of the record.

Martin Haselb ck - Famous Works for Organ [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/20/1994