Post subject: [2011-05-10] Zombi "Escape Velocity" (Relapse)
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:23 pm
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I'm sure I'm speaking only to myself but these guys rule. They are a Pittsburgh-based duo who mix 70's Prog Rock, Krautrock, and Italian horror movie soundtracks in their music. This will be their 4th album. I implore anyone who digs ELP, Tangerine Dream, Goblin, Karftwerk, etc. to give these guys a try.
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Post subject: [2011-05-10] Zombi "Escape Velocity" (Relapse)
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:25 pm
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I know nobody cares, but here's a great review of the new album from Musictap (I firmly believe most on here would really dig these guys):
Zombi is the electronica genius of two individuals. Helmed by Steve Moore, who handles the basswork and much of the technically intensive synthesizers, and A. E. Paterra, who supplies the drumwork and a measure of Moogwork and electronics, the 2-member Zombi is already a superbly seasoned band that know their way around the genre of Space-Rock as well as the masters ever did.
On their latest album, Escape Velocity, the pair have revisited the tapestries and layers of sound once practiced by Tangerine Dream. But Zombi is not a Tangerine Dream clone, nor are they in any way unoriginal. They have their minds and art firmly in the cement of our current time but you can still pick snippets of respect from their songs to the masters that set the groundwork before them.
The five-tracks found on Escape Velocity are, for the most part, over the five minute mark with several around 8-9 minutes, all danceable, all mind-worthy, and all contemplative. The one single ‘under three-minute’ track, “Slow Oscillation”, is fast-paced, danceable, and certainly a single for the band. The duo supply exclusively written tracks (three from Moore, two from Paterra) to the new album, which show that they have joined themselves into a single unit. They are a hive-mind operating at the same frequency. One of the great things that made Tangerine Dream memorable was their ability to become one, and Zombi has achieved this.
“Shrunken Heads” is a brilliant 8-minute plus work, followed by a perfect and atmospheric “DE3″, which clocks in at an epic nine-minute set. Escape Velocity closes out with “Time of Troubles”, a minimalistic, film score-like track that rewards the listeners with a slow-paced and reflective gem.
I’m very appreciative of the music that I have heard on Escape Velocity. It’s memorable, it’s entrancing, and it’s a nod to the past even as it steps into the future.
I’m a Zombi fan.
_________________ "We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors."—College Basketball player Weldon Drew
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