Search - Scanner :: Garden Is Full of Metal

Touching ambient sketches about dying.

03/06/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Perhaps the only fully conceptualistic album of Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner). One by one, the tracks gently build up a portrait of a deteriorating yet happy artist with a beatific view of himself, his craft, and little concern for public or reality. Could be as much about Scanner himself as about Jarman. Beatless, hookless, brilliantly sparse pieces, mostly straight or treated piano plus noise and Jarman's voice samples. And oh yes, the quicktime - format video clip adds a lot."

Meditations on loss

simpcity | 10/15/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Scanner Robin Rimbaud has always concerned himself with the sort of sound landscapes we find here on this tribute to Derek Jarman. And this is not his first meditation on loss.



His earlier cellphone song Safety (on Trance Europe Express 2) is a similar mournful soundscape of loss. Robin just has a keen ear for human speech as a musical signature.



On this album he expands sampling in the direction of biography. My favorite song is Fravaer with its tropical, froggy undergrowth of sound. Highly recommended ambiant stuff."