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Artist:	SAGAN
Title:	Unseen Forces
Label:	VAGUE TERRAIN
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	VAGUE 005CD

The return of Matmos' label, Vague Terrain. "Debut CD and DVD by Sagan, a quartet comprised of musicians Blevin Blectum, Jay Lesser, and Jon Leidecker and video artist Ryan Junell. The album, titled Unseen Forces: Audio, commences on a suitably cosmic scale with bombastic space-prog complete with triumphant analogue melodies recalling the birth of distant galaxies, or early 70s Vangelis records about the birth of distant galaxies. Magnifying the lost-in-a-private-world-of-their-own tendencies which have marked both Lesser and Blectum from Blechdom releases in the past but considerably more ambitious in scope, Unseen Forces contains multitudes: cranky computers, chirpy helium speed loops, big lumbering rock drums, spiky metal guitar leads, crumbling towers of gabber stomp, pastoral piano meanderings, field recordings from bird hospitals, abrupt tempo collapses, and shivering synthesizers. It's a heady, epic trip that is likely to please the sky people and stupefy the earth people. Ryan Junell's beautifully shot 40 minute music film, titled Unseen Forces: Video, stages a hilarious sequence of vignettes from the history of science to Sagan's music. For the truly gluttonous, the hybrid DVD also contains 9 shows with over 6 hours of music in the popular mp3 format."

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