Label: Freedom To Spend – FTS007 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: US Released: 2019 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Minimal
On Rimarimba’s 1985 album In The Woods, Robert Cox has made his music kit, an odd assortment of new and old technologies, lately fixated on the digital delay, and programming technologies, sing his own song at its most articulate clip. The songs seem more developed, fluent, like mini-suites in some sense. By his third album, it’s clear Cox has recognised just how liberating technology can be – “All these intricate layers of things that I was trying to play, and didn’t have the musical ability to play, I could suddenly program them” – but he also recognises that if you head too far down that road, dull perfection is your bitter reward. Human music intoxicated and lurching through a new forest of machinery. (NM)
Tracklist
A1 Spafft Moutafft Seeall + California A2 In The Can A3 Firedance A4 Bamboo Link+ A5 Couldn't Top The Demo A6 California + Saxes A7 Clearview A8 California + Bell A9 Gone To Hell In An Even Smaller Bucket A10 Xit A11 He's A Good Lad B1 Pacific B2 From 6 To 13 B3 California + Guitars B4 Fitall Wall B5 Gone To Hell In The Smallest Bucket Of All B6 Few Parameters B7 Bamboo Duck B8 Hey! Almost Chinese Ain't It?
