Released: 2016
Label: Sub Rosa
Genre: Contemporary
On The Acid Lands which is a wordplay, the music is divided into two lengthy compositions and one short one. The Opening Performance Orchestra creates almost menacing atmospheres, full of experimental sounds, drones, and eerie effects that sound like descending into the afterlife. On top of it, there are readings of Burroughs’ texts by Iggy Pop which are then followed by Burroughs’ own readings. The dense soundscapes surround the voices which overall gives the impressions of sonic hallucinations The first composition ebbs and flows effortlessly from one cluster of sounds to another with its darkish analog, Berlin-school electronics (early ’70s Tangerine Dream period) and spacey yet suspenseful ambiance. The way it is structured it evolves in sections as one section melts into the next. Every single sound and section symbolizes the dangers that pilgrims meet on the road to the Western Lands. Despite the impending noise in certain sections, the composition sounds more like a carefully composed classical work than an unrestrained piece of noise and otherworldly sounds. All About Jazz
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