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by John Monaghan
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by H. Paul Gabriel, Robert Wool
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by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Seed
by Jansen, Barbieri, Karn
Product Group: Music
Studio: Vital
ISBN: B00000716K
EAN: 5020522396226
Audio CD
Release Date: 1997-10-09
SKU: mon0000026477
Condition: Good
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Customer Reviews
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Superb little recording.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-04-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
"Seed" is the followup EP to the previous year's Jansen/Barbieri/Karn offering, "Beginning to Melt", featuring a remix of the title track of that record and three new songs, although only the remix and "The Insect Tribe" feature all three musicians, the other two tracks are Jansen/Barbieri only but don't have a substantially different vibe.
The "Beginning to Melt" remix is interesting-- Jansen has added a more rhythmic exercise to the piece, replaced some of the previous drumming with a loop or two and adds some synth bass to the mix-- this minimizes both his own and Karn's unique voice, but the main song structure itself hasn't changed, which means that when either he or Karn's original playing burst through, its really quite catching. Remarkably, I found the remix to be rather engaging, since I normally don't care for remixes, this suprised me. The other track featuring all three, "The Insect Tribe", is totally bizarre, rhythms are set up on keyboards, and Karn's bass floats in between everything. I've owned this EP for about nine years now, and I still can't make up my mind about this one, but its definitely engaging and without having any real drumming for the first several minutes, it manages to have quite a lilt to it, and I love Karn's fuzz guitar playing. And yet bizarrely enough, when the concrete rhythms kick in, the piece seems to drag a bit as the loop is phrased slightly behind where the keyboard swipes were. Like I said, totally bizarre.
The Jansen/Barbieri pieces are also quite interesting-- "In the Black of Desire" is rhythmically faster paced and more engaging in a visceral sense than most the Jansen/Barbieri material (mind you, I love their stuff, but its more trancey than this), and the piece keeps you guessing with vocal samples, synth violin, and guitar swipes coming and going throughout. The same is true for "Prey", with its circular beats and arpeggiated keys, but this time we get some funky guitar from Steven Wilson-- this one would have benefited strongly from inclusion of Karn on it, a funky bass would do well here, but the piece itself is, like the rest of the EP, extremely good.
Remarkably, given its relative short length and the fact that 11 of its 27 minutes are given over to a remix, this is probably the best of the JBK releases.
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