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Aerial M
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Track Listing
- Dazed and Awake
- AASS
- Wedding Song No. 2
- Rachmaninoff
- Skrag Theme
- Compassion for M
- Always Farewell
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #226681 in Music
- Released on: 1997-10-14
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
#1 album in my collection
I have a couple thousand albums not counting all the random stuff I have on my computer. Mostly I like stuff from Louisville, Chicago and San Diego. My favorite bands are Rodan, Slint, June of '44, For Carnation, Tortoise, Retsin, The Sea and Cake, 3 Mile Pilot, Heavy Vegetable, The Black Heart Procession, Physics, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, A Silver Mt. Zion, Will Oldham, Smog and Etc... just to give you a range.
The only reason I am writing this review is to say that since this album came out, it has been my number one favorite album of all times. There are few albums I can say this of but this album sticks with me like nothing else in my life.
David Pajo has been making really important and amazing music since I was still in elementary school. Bands like Slint, For Carnation, Tortoise and even Zwan all have his mark on them. Pajo is one of the most underrated and yet most important song writers of our generation. If you check out his discography: http://www.papa-m.com/ and then consider the influence and impact that pands like Slint have had on independent music over the last couple of decades, Pajo's footprint is HUGE.
Last, if I could only listen to one album for the rest of my life, it would not take me more than a millisecond to respond. this would be that album.
Nice to meditate
Beautiful organic sound accentuated by the simplicity of its compossition. The album integrates string and percussion instruments along with keyboards and synthesizers to create slow but inviting rythms. Aerial M has been characterized from other post-rock bands by their incorporation of deep silences into the development of their music. This is percieved throughout this work and specially in Aass. This does not mean, however, that the final result is a monotonous sound. Quite on the contrary, the overall album has an irregular acoustic geography, going from lethargic tunes (as in Wedding Song No.2) to more energetic compossitions (Compassion for M). The outcome is a state of a hyptnotic introspection where one is easily lost unnoticedly.
Very nice record, but docked a star for brevity
"NYC music lover" has nailed this disc so all you need to decide now is if you are prepared to fork out effectively full price for an album that runs under 32 mins. It's a warm and humid night; I've put this CD on at low volume and it's hit the spot. By putting it on "repeat", it sounds like Pajo's revisiting the same themes every half-hour. You could try and convince yourself that it's value for money that way. No, it didn't fool me either.
