ARC - The Circle Is Not Round (2006)

GENRE..... Ambient
LABEL...... A Silent Place
MODE....... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo
REL.DATE.. 06-10-2008

ARC is a trio consisting of Aidan Baker (guitars, flutes, tapeloops and edrums ; Aidan Baker
is also of the group Nadja), Richard Baker (drums, percussion and chimes) and Christopher
Kukiel (djembe and tabla). They make multi-layered progressive organic loops music,
based upon reworked live recordings (recorded in Toronto in 2000). Their approach reminds
much of the late Richard Pinhas, mixed with some ideas of some second generation ambient
music masters.

ôThe Endless sequence of life and deathö makes such sounds (feedbacks, loops, guitars) up to
a point of a saturation of sounds with an almost rock energy, with the speeding up presaure
from a steam-engine, expressed by the drums. ôThe Circle is not roundö continues the picture,
like an echo of energy of the previous track, this time with more acoustic guitars,
handpercussion, electric bass, iron objects percussion, until the sound loops forms a sort
of sequenced organism, and the loop-like guitars starts to lead more, combined with some
feedback noise loop. "Desire Is Suffering" brings us to a further stage of the recording,
which makes it also more clear this is based upon a recording, a live improvisation, of
guitar looped ambience, keyboard-drone-like effects, increasing guitar bells-like tones, with
growing droning tension, like a slowly coming closer train, fading in with sound, then calming
down to one sort of organic thing. A few small (deliberately produced ?), increasing number
of sounds results like scratches on a cdr, sound errors, are added which break the hypnosis
a bit of the loops with percussion. Last track, ôPrajnaö is again a further stage in the live
performance. It very much has a guitar led fundament (including fuzz sounds), with vague
melodic repetitions amidst many multi-layered loops, with drums. Amidst an increasing number
of guitars the percussion seems not to be looped but somewhat mixed in the background, it
improvises like jazzrock along its way, whilst being absorbed in the organic loop turmoil..
until all of this moodily fades out.

Digipack on recycled partly glossed paper, limited to 800 copies.

Tracklist:

01 the endless sequence of life and death
02 the circle is not round
03 desire is suffering
04 prajna

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