Mosquito Dream

Mosquito Dream Artist: James Plotkin & Brent Gutzeit
Label: Kranky
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 796441803620
EAN: 0796441803620
ASIN: B00000J62S


Release Date: 1999-05-25

Mosquito Dream


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Tracks:

  1. Mosquito Dream
  2. Sand Scroll
  3. Wires
  4. Could Cover
  5. Helo
  6. Mosquito Veil

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Amazon.com

Mosquito Dream is a challenging, brilliant update on guitar-based ambient sound. The disc concerns itself mostly with the ebb and flow of humming, nearly distorted waves of droning sound. It's far colder in tone than, say, the music of Rafael Toral, but it's neither too cerebral nor overbearingly bleak. The record was made, according to the label, in the following manner: "Plotkin recorded a guitar track; Gutzeit destroyed it and rebuilt it. Gutzeit used handmade instruments (an upright 18-string steel "bass" strung with piano wire and a 3-string instrument with 100-foot piano wires), a boom box, a stereo, and a 4-track tape deck to create 5 different tracks. Plotkin remixed those tracks and sent Gutzeit 40 minutes of music." It's a slowly evolving record; very little seems to happen on the first track--it just sounds like a succession of highly processed feedback hums. Halfway through track two, "Sand Scroll," things get really interesting and generally stay that way for the rest of the album. It's hard to say whether the record is constructed as such, or if it just takes about 10 minutes for one's ears to get used to its subterranean charms. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars lovely droning darkambient.......1999-08-30

the first Plotkin i'd ever heard was on the amazing compilation _Ambient 4: Isolationism_ and i was blown away by its stark beauty. i feel the same about this release. this album immerses the listener in a frightening, beautiful, flowing alien universe. you'd never guess that the only instrument used in this recording is guitar--heavily manipulated, droning guitar.

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