Robby Krieger - Ritual Begins At Sundown - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Fourth album from the legendary Swedish thrash-death metal masters Merciless. Prepare yourself for a merciless riff tornado from start to finish on this brilliant album, to say the least.

Robbie Lee is an improviser and sound creator in New York City, performing on an eclectic range of instruments, across the fringes of creative music in many scenes. On Prismatist he plays only two things sopranino saxophone and tuning forks with live electronics. They are like two currents alternating through the album, a double helix of contrasting extremities. The sopranino, even higher than the soprano saxophone, twists it's way through disintegrating patterns, with a folk-like tonal element coming through the noise. Interspersed between are pieces for tuning forks and live electronics, a kind of musique concrete where the acoustic tuning forks emulate warped sine waves in the open air. They are earthy and organic, with hallucinatory psychoacoustic stereo qualities. As the Prismatist of the album's title, Robbie Lee splits sound into a spectrum color, with his highly personal musical language.

The Residents had passed their own punk stage in 1976 with the of InchSatisfactionInch and were feeling that 1979 disco, while using the studio in new ways, did not actually offer much in the way of depth. So they decided it was a good time to make the jump into world music, since by their own calculations it was not to become popular for several more years. They scanned the map for a proper culture to exploit. Immediately they realized the North Pole had been overlooked because it is made of ice and therefore not on a world map.