Skuli Sverrisson: Seremonie
- Watching Water 6:07
- Still 8:23
- Org 2:36
- Surviving Memory 5:23
- The Rain is Not a Metaphor 5:12
- Hymnodia 4:44
- Crash Frozen 3:27
- Blind Spot 6:46
- eAn 2:38
Oddly enough this album is composed entirely on the electric bass guitar. Yet
an accomplished musician will tell you that this album is totally devoid of the
usual sounds you acquire from a bass guitar. Instead, Skuli Sverrisson has
distorted, altered, flanged, vibrated, twisted, and ultimately warped the very
soul of the instrument he coaxes to life. He does a magnificent job of
retaining the warmth of the instrument while ultimately sacrificing the
cliched ridden sound most people have come to expect from this instrument.
Skuli is able to do what few guitar musicians have been able to do, which is
rekindle my long lost respect for guitar players. He stands together with the
likes of Jim O'Rourke and K.K. Null as people who have truly distorted the
modern view point of what a guitar should sound like. Instead they have chosen
to tear down the conventional walls of music in favor of hauntingly composed
arrangements of distorted chords, bass lines, and pitchshifting.
Extreme Records
P.O. Box 147
Preston 3072
Victoria, Australia
E-mail: extreme@well.com
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