Reinventing the Orange
Label: Polyvi.be Records
Length: LP
Rated: NONE
Website: http://www.garbailey.com/
Release Date: 2007-01-20
Media: CD
Format: Album
WorkNameSort: Reinventing the Orange
Reinventing the Orange is electronic music by a single artist ‘ Central Florida’s Gar Bailey ‘ that synchronously champions primitivism and abstraction. Without lyrics to lead a listener down any specific emotional corridor or the deadening predictability of computer quantizing, this second alGARhythm release allows itself to be a seriously immersive and shaggy audition along the lines of Pink Floyd’s ‘Astronomy Domineâ?� or the first two Orb full-lengths. The German ‘motorikâ?� notion of linear, destination-bound travel is in play here, augmented by pit stops full of swirling, stereo-panned clouds. This is mischievous and narcotic night-driving music. As the disc moves forward, a virtual all-frequency antenna grabs a dense canopy of broadcast detritus to distract from the cannon blasts of timbre and bleeps/bloops of leaden sci-fi rhythms. Keep an eye out for the ‘Burn Brainer (Drone Operator’s Alprazolam mix)â?� MP3 add-on that Polyvi.be and Bailey are giving to buyers.
This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2007.