"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Sunday, November 19, 2006

My recommendations 2006:
Color Wheel by Growing

Growing: Color Wheel
Troubleman Unlimited 4/11/2006

Color Wheel is often lumped in with the work of Growing's contemporaries in noise such as Excepter, Wolf Eyes and Death From Above 1979. However, this doesn't tell the whole story. Color Wheel is more similar to Brian Eno's Discrete Music in its elegance and breadth. Rarely does noise overshadow the ponderous drones. Fuzzy, cacophonous bits of detritus float past one another on a sea of pure tones. The overarching theme is balance; rhythms throb unchangingly over periods of up to twenty minutes to give stability to the compositions, while random flares of noise break up the monotony.

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