Bass Communion - Pacific Codex (2008)
Bass Communion - Pacific Codex (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 127 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 818 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Equation Records (E=mc16)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 127 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 818 MB
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Equation Records (E=mc16)
Most Porcupine Tree fans already know this, but lead guitarist Steven Wilson is also a keen experimental artist, although he keeps that facet of his activities well separated from his progressive rock career. Pacific Codex is Wilson's (and his side project Bass Communion's) most avant-garde album to date, one geared at connoisseurs of drone music and electro-acoustic music much more than Porcupine Tree's audience. This album features Wilson and Theo Travis using metal sculptures by Steve Hubback to produce sounds. This source material was later extensively processed and assembled by Wilson into two 20-minute pieces. A percussion album this is not, nor is it industrial-sounding, as some readers might be expecting from the above details. Wilson's treatments have retained some of the percussive quality of the metal (gong-like attacks, the deep rumble of sheet metal being flexed), but most of the aural landscape here evokes the sea: soft rolls on metal translating into waves crashing on the shore; wide, boundless spaces hiding bottomless depths of sound. Pacific Codex contains no melodies, no beats. It can be summarized as an abstract construction of metal-based soundscapes that have been "liquefied" through digital processing. The approach is not particularly new and the result is more of a listening experience than an enjoyment, but Wilson managed to produce an interesting piece out of limited source material. Carl Glover's 36-page booklet of sea photographs reinforces the sonic imagery of the music.
Tracklist:
01. Pacific Codex 1
02. Pacific Codex 2
Total time: 40:18
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Thanks to the original releaser
See also:
Bass Communion - Bass Communion II (1999)
Bass Communion - Atmospherics (1999)
Bass Communion - Reconstructions and Recycling (2003) [Reissue 2019]
Bass Communion - Ghosts On Magnetic Tape (2004)