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Biota
Object Holder
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Bumpreader
2. Spillway
3. Eavesdrop
4. Blind Corner
5. Under the Hat
6. Flatwheel
7. Reckoning Falls
8. Swallow
9. Move
10. Steam Trader
11. Understander
12. Private Wire
13. Cinder
14. Distraction
15. Signal
16. This Ridge
17. Idea for a Wagon
18. More Silence
19. Coat
20. Gate Climbing
21. Protector
22. Visible Gap
23. The Trunk

CD Details

All Artists: Biota
Title: Object Holder
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Recommended Records
Release Date: 3/29/1995
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock
Styles: Ambient, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Experimental Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 752725002226

Synopsis

Product Description

Stunning thorough worked piece that breaks new ground altogether; an extraordinary achievement, 3 years in the making and rewriting a lot of rules. Text and singing (Susanne Lewis, inimitably) Also features Charles Vrtacek (Piano), Andy Kredt (Guitar) and Chris Cutler (percussion, electrics, texts). A Dense, profound field of sound, music, silence.

CD Reviews

01/22/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"For nearly 20 years, Biota has produced sounds untouched by genre or trend. Their music is a dense and lovely musique-concrete mass, with unsteady tripping rhythms, strange medieval fanfares, and undersea melodies. On _Object Holder_, they pull out obsolete instruments like the hurdy-gurdy, clavioline, Hawaiian tremoloa (a plucked string oddity) and marxophone (an autoharp-like device with 15 spring-loaded hammers), making them sound like a Gamelan orchestra broadcasting from the deck of a capsizing ship. Biota is joined on this release by Chris Cutler, Susanne Lewis, and C.W. Vrtacek."