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Space Time 1 |
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Space Time 2 |
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Space Time 3 |
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Space Time 4 |
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Space Time 5 |
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Space Time 6 |
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Space Time 7 |
Chris
Conway - |
theremin, keyboards, effects, voice |
Simon
Styring - |
electric
guitar, guitar synth, effects |
John
Runcie - |
drums,
percussion |
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All
Stations.
A fascinating continuous golden 48minute improvisation
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background
Space
Time is Continuum's 4th album, recorded at the same session
as their Yttrium album. The music was a continuous 48minute
improvisation and the band decided they wanted to keep it
in it's entirety.
It threads organically from a mellow ambient openeing, to
some free jazz, before going into a Terry Riley-esque minimal
organ section, before settling down to a spacey ambeint section.
Out of this, like the sun rising, there is a piano ECM styled
atmospheric ending which grows to a dramatic climax before
a stunning exit as strange spacey sound arrive again at the
close.
This was such an organic piece with fascinating trasitions
between the sections it was great to release it on it's own
right - a real tribute to Continuum's inventiveness and level
of interplay.
**UPDATE June 2021 - The CD is seamless but has 7 track markers. On Bandcamp now, it is just 1 seamless track. On Spotify it is 7 tracks but they seem to run seamlessly.
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continuum
Chris
Conway paints pictures with his theremin, and with the help
of mountains of delays and effects he moves from wild screams
to subtle chordal soundscapes which blend with his low Irish
whsilte and vocal effects to produce a rich deep layered
sound. He has worked with a strangely diverse set of musicians
including Talvin Singh, Peter Tork (Monkees), improviser
Derek Bailey, Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), composer Gavin
Bryars, violin masetro Dr L Subramanium, ECM saxman Martin
Speake, and Brazilain jazz diva Ithamara Koorax.
Simon Styring's guitar style comes out of Robert Fripp,
blending his sustainiac-loaded guitar with guitar synthesizer
and effects in intriguing ways. From sustained Frippatronics
to splintered Metheny-like free jazz guitar.
John Runcie is a superbly impressionistic jazz drummer in
the mould of ECM label regular Jon Christensen. He has worked
with Lee Konitz, John Surman and Barbara Thompson to name
a few. His restless creativity abounds, and his subtlety
is evident, interacting one minute, and driving the band
the next.
Together they create so many sound combinations as they veer from
space sounds to ambient electronica, free jazz to minimal
patterns. Out on the edge - not always tonal but with atonality
on the brink of breaking out. And vice versa…
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influences
Terje Rypdal, Robert Rich, Terry Riley, Simon Stockhausen,
Barbara Buchholz, Robert Fripp, Jon Christensen
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