专辑简介

Relocating to Portland (Oregon), Rose got help from guitar giant John Fahey and avantgarde musician Patrick Barber for Myoclyonic Melodies (Worrybird, 1996). Fahey's haunting pieces of the early 1970s have something to do with the existentialist, transcendental quality of the longer pieces: the undulating raga of Hellhole, and the minimalistic essay Mating Rituals (that reaches nightmarish degrees of sonic angst). The 13-minute Below The Bellows, blending sustained accordion tones with Hendrix-ian glissandos, bombardment-like walls of noise, radio signals, and so forth, could become a Voice Of The Turtle for the generation of electronica. Whereas briefer ditties such as Dolls Inside The Walls (a vaguely exotic hymn in the vein of Enya) and Ballad of the Panatonic (a gothic toccata in the manner of Bach) settle for a "noir" atmosphere worthy of a film soundtrack, Toys That Don't Care is a surreal concerto for dissonant accordion and all sorts of instrumental noises and Brown Dwarf is a threnody for lengthy drones.