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KRANK 132CD
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"American Buddhist Greg Davis. John Cage: 'I think I have everything.' Deadhead Greg Davis (no drugs). At the center of the empty heart (the empty heart is open). He has made an album, Mutually Arising, with two songs. The title implies two at least, evokes to the mind a basic two, a basic duality. Is this simply the listener and the composer?, in communion through the experience of the same elements given as gift and sharing by the latter to the former, a shared experience? From where does he take the phrase or is it made up? 'Cosmic Mudra' is a subtle and slowly changing circle, a sun, the sun, the moon. The boring (not boredom -- it's very opposite my dear) center ray of the universe totale. He sees all possible lights evolve around this minimalist design. Not the arpeggio minimalists, rather: The quiet time stretchers of long tones and long tones sustained and hyper-sustained until buzz value outweighs pitch, sounds seeming to fly around the screen, hyper-spiritual with hardly a word. This O is the Obama circle, the O in HOPE. Open, round, empty. Empty yet full; containing everything. You haven't yet dreamed of the logo in these colors. This music is totally emotionally clear and totally political. It requires all the attitude and confidence (the confidence of success) of risk... to let music's elements stand this totally naked, to allow them to be this powerful yet to still own them despite their enormous size. Greg Davis Richard Serra? 'Hall of Pure Bliss' is a chord and all sorts of wonderful sounds which live to its left and right. For me: Low is left and high is right and then the traveling hisses swim on either side of this imagined keyboard in glitterspace. This reminds me of a glitterflecked costume of Art Now as taken from hippyjunk Outsiders of the late '60s to today! Misunderstand me not: This shit is TOTAL GOLD. We can see John Cage as a hippy of sorts, the shots Adventures in Modern Music like to use. The chord began as a sixth chord, six on top. And there was that wonderful moment of the flat three or phlat seven? Now I have lost track of time: Things have changed. Burlington Vermonter Greg Davis." -- Chris Weisman
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KRANK 074CD
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"Greg Davis is best known for his two albums on the Carpark label; Arbor and Curling Pond Woods. Somnia collects drone-oriented material Greg Davis has been working over the last two to three years with the final track, 'Mirages (version 2)' being a recording from spring 2004 using a Schaaf punch card music box and computer. Each track features a single instrument (bowed psaltery, acoustic guitar, harmonica, Fender Rhodes, Magnus chord organ) played by Davis and then filtered through a computer. The tones that come out of the process bear little immediate resemblance to the instrument of origin, taking on extended and diffuse forms of their own."
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MORT GD
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"1) Field recording from the garden at Hotel Rembrandt across the street from VPRO studios. Fender rhodes improvisation. site specific. relocationing. 2) Convolved bit reduced slowed down glockenspiel tones and Casio sk1 organ drones. disintegration. colliding angled sounds. 3) Melodica chords. New years noise maker clickers. deconstructed cumulus beats. 4) Chord organ blankets. Scissors. paper. maracashakers. coalescing rhythms. First guitar. 5) Slow motion combines with fast motion. Chimes. Resonance. 6) Serein = a mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset. Tripleting gallops as three and two. 7) Tibetan singing bowls. microscoping. 8) Emerging from sleep to a smile and a hug. Plenty of sunshine. Second guitar. 9) Feedback valleys and dungeons. Quagmire. Tube tappings. 10) Thickets can be endlessly wonderful and complex. Beautiful inside. Altering preconceptions of noise. 11) Northern Arizona rainpipe. Sine tones. After Lucier. 12) Dancing with birds, rainshine, singing joy. 'from their eyes, the people must look like miniature toys.' 13) Children splashing in a bathtub. Arizona creek."
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CRPK 012CD
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"Is this a rock record, a folk record or electronic record? Surely the rockers will think it's 'electronic', while the computer kids will find it 'rockist', and well... who knows what the folk listeners will think. Regardless, Greg Davis has created a record that truly transcends these marketing genres. Arbor is something wholly new that manages to incorporate all these elements and more. In structural and aesthetic terms, think of a mix between John Fahey's early acoustic records, Fennesz's Endless Summer, and Jim O'Rourke's solo work. Carpark is certain that Arbor is the harbinger of a new type of music we like to think of as 'laptop folk'. If it isn't already obvious, laptop IS the new folk."
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