We Move Through Weather [Import]

Product Description
Japanese pressing of the San Francisco-based instrumental act's 2004 album has earliest release (available domestically 11-02-04). Human Highway.

Tracks:

Hello! We Move Through Weather!
Elephant Shoes
Get Away From Me You Clouds Of Doom
Klankity-Klank
Bump Past, Cut Up Through Windows
Everywhere The Damn Echo
A Cloud No Bigger Than A Man's Hand
We're The Only Ghosts Here

Album Description

Though hardly a pop record, 'We Move Through Weather' is Tarentel's most focused album since their 1999 debut, 'From Bone To Satellite.' However, the similarities stop there. Now stripped to a trio (Sonna's Jim Redd completes the line-up on drums), the sound is almost entirely intuitive. Virtually every song is built from expansive improvisations of sweeping drones and walls of discordant feedback. Where taut, meticulous guitar melodies once drove their songs to conclusion, thunderous drumming now navigates the group through an uncertain abyss of layered noise, horn bursts (courtesy of musician Steve Dye's arsenal of homemade instruments) and the occasional lonely piano. Perhaps for the first time since their inception, the studio Tarentel and the live Tarentel are one and the same. With nearly all obvious reference points now removed, their music has become incredibly difficult to describe. Rather than trying to say its sounds like this or that, now you're best! off just saying, "Let me tell you a story..."

Customer Reviews:

More like 3.5 stars........2005-06-12

As more of a collective than a band, Tarentel has always managed to reinvent themselves from record to record. From the Mogwai-esque beginnings of their early recordings (compiled on Ephemera), to the noisier debut album From Bone to Satellite, to this, their biggest departure from their humble beginnings, Tarentel seems deadset on defying conventions they had once set for themselves -- an admirable goal, and one they've managed to accomplish quite well.

So why only 3 stars (er, 3.5)? While I enjoy the new, more percussive, repetitious, and formless Tarentel quite a bit, I feel as though very little of it really grabs me -- clearly, their post-rock and ambient roots have taught them the virtues of so-called "wallpaper music," but We Move Through Weather is a highly percussive, near-industrial (industrial like early Swans -- slow, loud, repetitive, and abrasive -- not industrial like NIN) affair -- one would expect the album to better fulfill the role of foregrounding the percussion and using the auxillary instrumentation to build around the percussion so as to grab the listener's attention. However, not much in particular really grabs me about this disc -- I do enjoy what Tarentel has set out to accomplish on this disc, and I do feel they've accomplished it quite well, but this sound is still in its infancy.

On a side note, the Paper White EP is quite good.

Why won't the beating stop?!.......2004-12-12

I'm a big fan of Tarentel's 3 earlier full lengths, but I can't wrap my head around this one. The melodic, structured, evocative and emotive elements of the previous releases are abandoned for something that seems more improvisational, with unexciting results. The most serious problem is that the drummer seems to have hijacked the recording sessions -- an insistent, prominent drum beat (which might have been interesting had it lasted for one track) dominates pretty much the whole album and makes listening a numbing and somewhat unpleasurable experience.

Average customer rating:

Slow space

We Move Through Weather

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ASIN: B0002VL77C
Release Date: 2004-10-05

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the San Francisco-based instrumental act's 2004 album has earliest release (available domestically 11-02-04). Human Highway.

Customer Reviews:

Slow space.......2005-03-28

This is uneventful for me. I am always waiting for something dramatic to happen. It puts me to sleep and that is why I say slow space. Very repeatative beats.

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