Object Holder

Artist: Biota
Label: Recommended Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 752725002226
EAN: 0752725002226
ASIN: B000008OW0

Release Date: 1995-03-29

Object Holder

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Tracks:

Bumpreader
Spillway
Eavesdrop
Blind Corner
Under The Hat
Flatwheel
Reckoning Falls
Swallow
Move
Steam Trader
Understander
Private Wire
Cinder
Distraction
Signal
This Ridge
Idea For A Wagon
More Silence
Coat
Gate Climbing
Protector
Visible Gap
The Trunk
Bonus Track

Product Description

Stunning thorough worked piece that breaks new ground altogether; an extraordinary achievement, 3 years in the making and rewriting a lot of rules. Text and singing (Susanne Lewis, inimitably) Also features Charles Vrtacek (Piano), Andy Kredt (Guitar) and Chris Cutler (percussion, electrics, texts). A Dense, profound field of sound, music, silence.

Customer Reviews:

Bring on the Hurdy-Gurdy man, please!.......2002-06-24

This works best for me during the more 'conventional' moments, perhaps because I find I'm listening to less and less 'messy experimental music' as I get older! But this holds up well even through the discordant parts, there's a thread that keeps it together. I especially like the accordian and hurdy-gurdy parts, very haunting, definitely my favorite pieces.

alien music recorded underwater.......2001-10-05

People like to classify music into a few fundamental genres -- say, rock/pop, jazz, classical and world music. _Object Holder_ is unclassifiable, and hard to describe. Instruments like toy piano, marxophone, hurdy-gurdy, clavioline, accordion, whistles, kalimba and Hawaiian tremoloa join more standard guitars, piano, drum kit and saxophone, often electronically processed to the point of being unrecognizable. The music is dense and polyrhythmic, full of subtle electronic noise. Smoky nightclub jazz, Eastern European folk music and ambient sounds mix with brief and fractured indie-pop songs that seem like Blonde Redhead crossed with Circulatory System (sung by the wonderful Susanne Lewis of Thinking Plague and Hail). These genres, however, are never discrete, but blend into each other and overlap. Sounds decay slowly, giving the whole thing the impression of having been recorded underwater. The lyrics fit the surreal mood of the music, with lines like "the coin has no memory of milk" and "Spoonbender says the wall if touched is warm."

A fascinating album, really. Unfortunately, at 70 minutes it's just a bit too long. Just ten minutes shorter and it would've been perfect, but I get restless towards the end. Also, the three tracks by C.W. Vrtacek don't really do it for me -- they sound uncomfortably like cheesy filmscore music. But luckily, they only comprise a tiny proportion of the album, and serve mainly as brief interludes between larger sections, so they don't really detract from the quality of the album as a whole. If you're looking for a musical experience that's truly foreign to anything you've heard before, give this a try.

strange perfection.......2001-09-23

the album, for me, begins with "move," as I rarely listen to the songs preceding it. I first heard the song on a cmj compilation cd and was swept into a passionate search for "object holder" (which I found years later on the internet. O technology!). immediately, "move" struck something within me that cannot be written and is, therefore, usually overlooked. I found that the album has the same effect on me -- it reconnects parts of myself, if only temporarily.

the music could easily be dismissed as "noise" by many, but for those who crave engaging, otherworldly music able to transport and enliven those attuned to this form of Beauty, "object holder" is unparalleled.

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