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Landing continue their dreamy atmospherics with Sphere, released by K Records. The one aspect that seems to be a tad different on Sphere is the prevalence of steady drumming on most of the tracks, making Landing less similar to Windy & Carl and a closer kin to Mojave 3, Low, American Analog Set, or even Fontanelle. Landing still definitely lay down their prog-ish and psychedelic space-gaze tendencies on Sphere, but also enter into a post-rock/experimental area, as on "Fluency of Colors" and "Sphere," with their wandering processed guitars against keyboard drones and steady beats, which hold the album together at the moments when one could otherwise get lost in the dream. Sphere seems to be an fitting title for the album, in that the edges of all these songs are rounded off in the cross-faded atmospherics that bleed from track to track. Echoing from the group's consistent past, Sphere is another solid release from Landing, and possibly a small step forward. You will feel content that they left you with your head in the clouds. ~ David Serra
Landing: Dick Baldwin (bass guitar); Aaron Snow.
Personnel: Aaron Snow (vocals, guitar, Moog synthesizer, drums); Adrienne Snow (vocals); Dick Baldwin (guitar); Daron Gardner (drums).
Landing Sphere Songs | 1. | Fluency of Colors |
| 2. | Gravitational |
| 3. | Into Silence |
| 4. | Gravitational, Pt. 2 |
| 5. | Where the Leaves... |
| 6. | Solstice |
| 7. | Sphere |
| 8. | Filament |
| 9. | Gravitational, Pt. 3 |
| 10. | Feel, and the Seas Fill |
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Hot on the heels of their most successful album, Rush's 1981 tour was documented and released as EXIT, itself a Top 10 record. The package is an essential purchase for Rush diehards as well as hard rock fans. It makes a fine companion to ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, as there are no repeated tracks. The two live records combine to make a fine representation of Rush's prime era.
"YYZ" from MOVING PICTURES features Neil Peart's drum solo and shows why he is truly one of rock's premier skin bashers. Fan favorite "Closer to the Heart" gets the crowd participation going while the epic "Jacob's Ladder" is made to be played in an arena setting. "Xanadu" and album closer "La Villa Strangiato" are both mammoth tracks that exceed the studio versions due to the excellent interplay of the band and their growth as musicians. Recorded in the U.K. and Canada, EXIT is a phenomenal live recording that shows the band can interpret their studio material with both feeling and expertise.
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The initial pressing of RED is packaged in a cardboard-stock gatefold sleeve.
After the transitional ISLANDS, LARK'S TONGUES began the third Crimson phase that ended with RED. The quartet of David Cross, John Wetton, Robert Fripp and Bill Bruford (augmented on LARK'S TONGUES by madman percussionist Jamie Muir) is regarded as the most innovative of Crimson's many lineups, offering hard-edged improvisations on an unprecedented level. With founding member/lyricist Pete Sinfield departed, Robert Palmer-James stepped in with a more cutting, concise lyrical approach that matched the group's uncompromising instrumental precision.
Cross was relegated to guest status on RED, but still makes his presence felt, as do returning Crimson vets Mel Collins and Ian McDonald on saxes. The ominous, hard-edged aspect of Crimson's sound has always been alleged as an influence on early heavy metal, and RED, their heaviest, makes it clear why. The Wagnerian tendencies of early Crimson are magnified here, but the airy-fairy "prog-rock" trappings are discarded in favor of a sound that melds hard rock, modern classical music and jazzy improvisation. The resultant fusion-oriented sound is like a darker, rockier cousin to Tony Williams' Lifetime or the Mahavishnu Orchestra (or the repeating riff cycle that ends the Beatles' "She's So Heavy."
King Crimson fell apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walked away during the making of this album. It became Robert Fripp's last thoughts on this version of the band, a bit noisier overall but with some surprising sounds featured, mostly out of the group's past -- Mel Collins' and Ian McDonald's saxes, Marc Charig's cornet, and Robin Miller's oboe, thus providing a glimpse of what the 1972-era King Crimson might have sounded like handling the later group's repertoire (which nearly happened). Indeed, Charig's cornet gets just about the best showcase it ever had on a King Crimson album, and the truth is that few intact groups could have gotten an album as good as Red together. The fact that it was put together by a band in its death throes makes it all the more impressive an achievement. Indeed, Red does improve in some respects on certain aspects of the previous album -- including "Starless," a cousin to the prior album's title track -- ...
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