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...music heavy with a sense of foreboding,
but alive with slow motion detail... The Wire
The Wire
The Thomas Dimuzio's work has tended towards density
recently, and in the company of tape loop manipulator Joseph Hammer (a
veteran of various LAFMS affiliated groups), the drones are predictably
weighty and forbidding. Dimuzio samples and processes both his partner's
contributions and his own synthesizer and shortwave, with the results
in turn feeding back into Hammer's tapework. What emerges is a music heavy
with a sense of foreboding, but alive with slow motion detail, steering
clear of Dark Ambient melodrama in the sub-Lustmord vein. It's only on
"1 degree C" that things turn really ugly, with the emergence
of machine noise and bursts of synth distortion disrupting the blackest
of drone backdrops. For the most part, The Shining Path manages to maintain
a sense of detached mystery, allowing the listener to experience it as
purely abstract music rather than a Gothic soundtrack to doomladen states
of consciousness. Keith Moline
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