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https://timcohen.bandcamp.com/album/half-man-half-machine
Sound structure or randomness will fill the mind
with a certain primal need for an Evolution that inherently limits the
Imagination. Half Man Half Machine, the
latest Magic Trick release, builds and then explores a sonic landscape that is
constantly in bloom. Whether it be in
the slipstream and eddying of triumphant washes of melody, in the serpentining
elegance of percussive brambles, or in the perseverance of the laconic
lilt, woven upon revelations of transcendence and frailty from the mouth of Tim
Cohen, one is invited into a landscape that shifts and grows based on its own,
ulterior, nature...and one must only Listen to find it for themselves. Listen to the kalimba, metronome, cymbal
washes, shaker rattles, mercurial guitars, raga feel, glockenspiel, low
frequency rumble, subtle synthesizer, tabla loops; listen to the glowing of
pride, the soft self-consciousness, the deflecting surrealism of your guides
tongue; let yourself feel swept in its sonic orgy of change and realization;
there is form for you to hold, there is path for you to plant, you must allow
these sounds, these stories, to envelop your senses, you must let them wash
through you, guide you to the structure that looms elusive under the roar - it
is trying to tell you something and you have no choice but to feel and listen to
the tapestry enveloping you, inviting you into its myriad and continually
growing current and unknown direction.
One must Listen closely to this record, there is a chemistry of sound
and creativity, perched at its cups every edge, that brings an organic and
expansive stroke of structure, cohesiveness, imagination and honest human
transformation to a time most pummeled by the strictness of the machine.
Let its sonic humanity inspire… --Tyson Vogel (Two Gallants/Devotionals)
The LP will be released on November 6th, 2015
The LP will be released on November 6th, 2015