Jennifer Gentle - A New Astronomy - 2005

Jennifer Gentle / A New Astronomy

Жанр: Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Lo-Fi, A Silent Place
Носитель: CD
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): Italy
Год издания: 2006 Edition
Издатель (лейбл): A Silent Place
Номер по каталогу: ASP13
Страна исполнителя (группы): Italy
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 00:45:59
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Треклист:

1. Lost Aurora

2. Hidden Flower

3. Red Apple Devil

4. Hollow Earth Theory

5. Sex Rituals Of The Dead

6. Hiss From Nowhere

7. The Cannibal Club

8. Church Of The Black Emptiness

9. 'What Did You Say?'

10. A Classification Of Clouds

11. Music From Mars

12. Last Aurora

13. Me And Joe On The Moon
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Album Info & Reviews
A New Astronomy was recorded mostly in Marco Fasolo's bedroom on a 4-track cassette machine
(Note: this is the official release of the ultra-rare cd-r released by Sub Pop in 2005 in a 100 copies limited edition)
This is a strange kind of album. First of all, it is based upon the works of amateur astronomer and fool (he’s called genius in the liner notes, which I doubt completely, no matter what he himself thought he would be), Giovanni Panneroni, known for his theories from which he wanted to prove the earth is flat, the sun is a silver ball of 14 kilos and many other proves of his foolishness, I doubt that this was a joke. Secondly, the album has almost painful distortions, with an interesting approach thou, and thoroughly adds distorted electric guitar pieces, often between chaos results for the sounds and the recording result, the detailed results, and a controlled structure for the overview part, just like the mind of the man they dedicated this album to. This was originally released by Sub Pop in 2005 on cdr, this is the first official cd release of it.
The first sound is like a droning machinery, a combination of scraping mud with sounds of several huge turning wheels, changing in harmony to be more led by a melting droning bass movement, which penetrates further in combination with the higher scraping sounds chaos. Then suddenly the abstract world is left behind with some short guitar pieces, electric or acoustic, with a backwards feminine voice. The recordings prove how digitalized distortion can get a new meaning. Several of the electric guitar pieces are hard garage surf-like with raw drums, are rather painful, at times psychedelic, and there is added some vocal distortion. The iron strings form later on new drones which reveal their material well. Most of it has some portion of madness hidden behind the structure, although the album ends with a more recognisable tune. I can imagine how the astronomer became muse to the essence of this music. - psychemusic
The final new release by Small Voices is also a re-issue, of a CDR in an edition of 100 copies, originally on Sub Pop in 2005. Gentle's work is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni (1871-1950) who made his own astronomy, based on the fact that the earth is flat and planets don't move: the official astronomy is a big lie. Gentle plays the guitar, and she made the recordings onto a four track in a bedroom, which I must say can be heard. Things sound pretty raw here, with lots of minimal strumming, but feeding off through the distortion pedals. Quite raw and intense this music, and even when not every moment is great, it's the best of these three new releases on Small Voices. A bit drone related, heavy wall to wall post rock, but without the drums. Not really new but indeed a work that deserves to be heard by more people than just 100. - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly