| Description | : DRONE RECORDS DR-60, 2003; THE THIRD EP IN THE BATCH OF NEW DRONE-RELEASES IS THE VERY FIRST ONE IN OUR SERIES FEATURING AN AUSTRIALIAN PROJECT. ECCLESIASTICAL SCAFFOLDING IS ACTIVE SINCE A LONG TIME BUT HAD ONLY FEW RELEASES SO FAR, I.E. A CASSETTE-RELEASE ON THE LEGENDARY AUSTRALIAN LABEL EXTREME. ON THIS 7" E.S. CONCERNS WITH DREAM & SLEEP STATES AND CREATED TWO ADEQUATE PIECES THAT WORK LIKE HYPNAGOGIC ENTITIES. THE DRONEY, BUT VERY DYNAMIC PIECES ARE OF AN UNREAL CHARACTER, A SOUNDTRACK TO STRANGE DREAMS: WE LISTEN TO BACKWARDS-SOUNDS THAT COULD BE VOICES, BASSY PULSES, UP- & DOWN-SWELLING SOUNDS, METALLIC EFFECTS WITH OVERTUNES, AND FAR AWAY FEMALE SINGING: TRANSMITTING A STRONG IMPRESSION OF "DREAMING WHILE BEING AWAKE", OR "BEING AWAKE WHILE DREAMING" (AND WE WONDER: ISN'T MUSIC IN GENERAL PUSHING US EXACTLY IN THIS KIND OF INTERMEDIATE STATE?). THIS MUSIC IS LIKE BEING PRISONED FOREVER IN AN ENDLESS DREAM, OR EVEN IN A STATE BETWEEN DREAM AND REALITY, WITH NO CHANCE TO GET OUT. THE FASCINATION FOR, BUT ALSO FEAR OF THE STRANGE, THE ALIEN, THE UNREAL, CAN BE FELT HERE VERY INTENSELY - AN EMOTION THAT CAN ONLY EXPRESSED BY A PRE-SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE LIKE MUSIC! |
