"Really awful is more interesting to listen to than pretty good" - Eno ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. welcome to the drivel blog of "music detractor, Simon Reynolds"
Sunday, June 16, 2019
mundmuzik (swissmiss-stic)
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2889
some of this is great, others shades into mystic / kitsch blurryzone
you can't help thinking of holydivas from Lisa Dead Can Dance to the twittering bird in Transglobal Underground
i mean, i don't know, maybe i'm too stolidly English, but i can't help internally guffawing when confronted by a title like "Inner State of Alchemy"
if it was more indirect, maybe - more "show, not tell" - achieving or conjuring that effect without declaring baldly what it was about
there is a piety, a folkiness, a Voix Mysteres de Bulgaria devotionalism, an Arvo Part-y-hard quality to quite a few things in this region
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