Witchcraft: As I Hide
- Mindfire Wish
- Open Ways
- Liquid Air
- X-Position
- Absentia
- Return To Me
- Invocation
- Iridescent
- We Rest
- Cathedral
- Love on a Battleship
Witchcraft has taken some of the best elements from space rock, traditional
industrial and ambient music and cast a spell upon their debut album. The end
result is the creation of a fuzzy dreamlike atmosphere when experiencing the
album in it's totality from start to finish. Creative sound dispersion and
sample alteration function brilliantly within a mesh of abstract percussion and
sequencing that evoke a vibrant almost happy go lucky style of music. One might
even go far as to suggest that they are developing an bubblegum style of pop
music which just happens to utilize a large portion of non pop oriented musical
techniques. Witchcraft unwrapped a fresh look into what has been an
increasingly single facet ambient genre. Instead of focusing of exorbitant
soundscapes and aural whitewashes, Witchcraft has tried to develop depth and
change within their orchestration. A few of the tracks even have a lyrical
accompaniment which accentuates the music as opposed to detracting from it as
it would in a traditional ambient arrangement. If you've become bored with some
of the more popular ambient artists perhaps you should give Witchcraft a chance
to enlighten your palette and broaden your musical mind.
Witchcraft are:
John Buehler - vocals, keyboards, drum machines, percussion, vocoder & design
Andrew Arbetter - guitar
Contact:
Blue Triangle Records
c/o Gary Goldstein
P.O. Box 1531
Highland Park, IL 60035
Fax (847) 831-9177
E-mail: wtchcrft@wwa.com
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