Ramda

Ramda Artist: Mice Parade
Label: Bubble Core
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 600116002525
EAN: 0600116002525
ASIN: B00004HYHF


Release Date: 2000-07-25

Ramda


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Tracks:

  1. Ramda Flies With Magic Eyes
  2. Distant
  3. Galileo
  4. The Good Red Road
  5. Warpshire
  6. Gulliver's Travels
  7. The Lonely Lounge Piano Player's Lost His Little World
  8. The One To Look For
  9. (Attempt)
  10. More Music For Mallets Voices & Organ (And Other Stuff)
  11. Logic (Parts 1 & 2)
  12. Headphoneland In The School Of Old
  13. Imagine Winooski
  14. Ramda's Untriumphant Return
  15. Logic (Part 3)

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Mice Parade is the brainchild of Adam Pierce, who is one-fourth of the Dylan Group, an ensemble that rotates between two drumsets, bass, guitar, trumpet, and mallet instruments (like vibraphone, marimba and xylophone). In his one-man-band alter-ego, Pierce employs a similar array of instruments, but the studio-bound nature of his musical process somehow makes it seem closer to "electronica" than "post-rock" (for those who have a clearly defined notion of the difference--it often seems to come down to how many live instruments versus synthesizers are used). Preamble aside, Ramda is the second full-length release from Mice Parade and it's stunning--15 tracks of melodic, rhythmically propulsive electro-acoustic instrumental music that is consistently inventive in its use of sounds and arrangements. The opening track takes a rhythmic base of trap kit and tabla drums, adds a staccato circular pattern of keyboard hits that wouldn't be out of place on a techno record, and builds up interlocking short melodic phrases over the next six minutes using vibes, electric bass, synths, and violins. The cumulative effect is like a short Steve Reich piece with a groove. The next couple of tracks revolve around a harp-like instrument and rapid finger-style guitar arpeggios. The melodic material is static with variations arising from radical shifts in mixing and signal processing--basically the same approach to composing as dub reggae. One other track merits a special mention as one that'll have your less musically adventurous friends scratching their heads. "The Lonely Lounge Piano Player" takes an oddly beautiful piano piece reminiscent of mid-'70s Robert Wyatt and adds a simple drum pattern and some electronics. But halfway through, the tape speed starts randomly slowing down, as if someone is simply pressing a hand against the playback reel, and the result is strange but captivating, which pretty much sums up the whole record. <I>--Bob Bannister</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

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