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Wayfarer
by William Linton
SpaceForMusic.com Records, 2000
http://www.SpaceForMusic.com
William Linton is part of the group of electronic musicians based in
Tennessee which also includes Tony Gerber, Giles Reaves, and their
electronic-rock band “Spacecraft.” Their “SpaceForMusic.com” label
specializes in accessible, pop-influenced spacemusic, often soundtracks for
planetarium shows. This album follows along these lines, though it tends
more toward the all-electronic ambient genre pioneered in Europe in the
‘70s, rather than the rock crossover of “Spacecraft.”
Linton uses lots of soft, deeply reverbed sounds, including pretty
crystalline tinkling textures and electronic bells; it is unaggressive,
meant to soothe rather than excite. His chords are well-chosen; in the
sleepy track 4, “The Private Sea,” he floats softly on billows of dreamy
ninth-chords, while other tracks depend on modal and minor “folk” harmonies.
He is capable of doing dissonant or atonal stuff, as in track 5, “Strange
Tales,” but it is too softly arranged to be truly “dark,” it’s a gentle
weirdness. When he starts up a rhythmic section in this track, it moves into
a French Euro-sequencer style rather than harder dark techno-ambient. Linton
has made a “traditional” electronic ambient album which gives the listener a
kind hour of sonic ease and comfort.
Hannah M.G. Shapero
11/7/02
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