James Parrot - Drone 62
Yup! it´s a dreary (but sunny) Monday morning, and you are right! I have started to have this drone-ambient-tradition/ritual every Monday morning (to start the week!). This time I am in the company of a James Parrot, who has just released (yesterday) this 1-track 30 minutes digital drone-ambient album. Mind you that this is probably one of the most productive Bandcamp artists I have ever come across, about 230 digital Bandcamp releases so far! All within the drone, experimental and ambient section. So... With over 200 releases, is it any good. Worth the bugger?. Let´s give it an ear (or two) and see what we come up with!
The drone piece starts REALLY good, a constant feed of wave-like sound-strings being streamed into your ear. This is getting joined up with looped and atmospheric organ-like parts working in the background. It all sounds like a touch of fresh-air or waking up feeling 100% revived after a good (and uninterrupted sleep!). 4 minutes later on in the track, there is a sound/bass-tendency that gets slightly distorted. Sort of describing when a certain sound-perimeter hits the ceiling, it wants to get higher but ends up being corroded in the heights. A method of working around this could be to record this kind of drone music at a low volume instead, that way you can avoid the distorted sound-elements.
And that is that! I do not think that the distorted elements are intended, and I do think that the drone-piece could definitely be perfect without it. Actually, I think that the intro to this piece is soo good, that further sound-development/exploration isn't really required. It could just continue and continue and continue, So please Mr. Parrot .. make me a fanboy!
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