Taiga Remains
Ribbons Of Dust
- Catalog
- RS032
- Format
- CD
- Edition
- Edition of 300
- Released
- 2008
Already released as a series of 3" CD-R's, we're proud to finally drop Taiga Remains' blazing white-out guitar suite 'Ribbons Of Dust'. Although originally conceived as stand-alone pieces, the four tracks that make up this hour long disc can easily be seen as one continuous meditation on total delay emptiness as channeled through the electric six-string drone worship of Flying Saucer Attack and Andrew Chalk. Not at all the overtone distortion that Mr. Cobb usually trips in, these verses seem to have been written during heavy snowed in nights that lapsed into early morning. Vibrating, soothing, disturbing, and completely built for headphone trips to the stratosphere. Comes in a chipboard pack with black ink letterpressed artwork.
Tracklist
- Part 1 14:00
- Part 2.A 9:49
- Part 2.B 9:15
- Part 3 23:55
Press
In LaMonte Young's formulation, drone music is built on the idea of vertical composition, moving away from developmental form towards "Vertical Hearing". The danger, of course, is that layers will be substituted for composition, resulting in dissonant monolithic roars. These have their place, but tread an easy route to some ambiguous transcendence. On the four extended meditations for guitar and electronics here, Alex Cobb chooses no such route. Instead, patience and focus help him build up vast acres of clean, glowing tones.
Compiled from 3" CDrs originally released on Cobb's own Students Of Decay imprint, this nearly hour long suite of drone-and-drift study is a prime way to enter his music. Once you stop expecting development, the interaction of the stretched tones becomes the real drama, their wavering, tangled dance verging on the erotic. Slow legato swathes unfurl, joined by the occasional gentle attack of strings reverberating through space or the sharp, high pitched cry of controlled feedback. Cobb arranges these events so that they start engaging in a dialogue. His electronic chorale seemingly advances and recedes as well as rises and falls, the pieces expanding in all directions.
Conceptually, Cobb is echoing ideas Young articulated; musically, he follows the lineage of Eliane Radigue and Andrew Chalk, less in hock to drone theory and more interested in the form's effect. Here. the effect is subtle but demanding; difficult not because it is dissonant, but because it is so focused and so patient - and demands the same from listeners. - The Wire
Compiled from 3" CDrs originally released on Cobb's own Students Of Decay imprint, this nearly hour long suite of drone-and-drift study is a prime way to enter his music. Once you stop expecting development, the interaction of the stretched tones becomes the real drama, their wavering, tangled dance verging on the erotic. Slow legato swathes unfurl, joined by the occasional gentle attack of strings reverberating through space or the sharp, high pitched cry of controlled feedback. Cobb arranges these events so that they start engaging in a dialogue. His electronic chorale seemingly advances and recedes as well as rises and falls, the pieces expanding in all directions.
Conceptually, Cobb is echoing ideas Young articulated; musically, he follows the lineage of Eliane Radigue and Andrew Chalk, less in hock to drone theory and more interested in the form's effect. Here. the effect is subtle but demanding; difficult not because it is dissonant, but because it is so focused and so patient - and demands the same from listeners. - The Wire