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Artist:	LOGREYBEAM
Title:	It's All Just Another Aspect of Mannerism
Label:	TYPE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TYPE 004CD

"It's All Just Another Aspect Of Mannerism is the first full length release from Los Angeles based Logreybeam, aka Gabriel Morley. Having spent many years studying music at the prestigious Cal Arts Academy, Morley has taken his training in modern classical composition and turned it on its head. Instead of merely sampling the instruments he has so painstakingly learned, he re-synthesizes, filters and destroys them until scant traces remain on the resulting sound recordings. Every track starts with a sound base, whether it be piano, strings or percussion, only a hint of the original source is left. All we hear are tones, trapped reverberations, the sounds that we are taught to ignore. The album opens in typically classical style, with the sounds of a laptop orchestra tuning their samples on 'Premonition'. This sets the tone of the record perfectly as it drifts seamlessly from Xenakis-influenced electrical drones into the cold, precise digital manipulations explored previously by artists such as Carsten Nicolai. It stops for breath mid-way with 'Beetelguise', a wonderful reinterpretation of Danny Elfman's influential theme, proving that there is room for a wry smile in the po-faced world of the avant garde. As the album draws to a satisfying close with the mysterious 'Untitled' we are treated to a piece of field recording, delicately manipulated to brush the senses rather than barrage them with information. This kind of subtlety is rarely achieved, yet Gabriel Morley manages effortlessly."

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