{"id":10087,"date":"2016-02-10T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T05:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2016-01-06T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:00:17","slug":"album-mini-review-endless-tapes-brilliant-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/10\/album-mini-review-endless-tapes-brilliant-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Endless Tapes &#8212; Brilliant Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9942\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/endless_tapes.jpg\" alt=\"endless_tapes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/endless_tapes.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/endless_tapes-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/endless_tapes-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B0120SI3CG&amp;asins=B0120SI3CG&amp;linkId=5SLPA7OSZWFH2PO6&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: Brian Eno, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/04\/a-conversation-with-marius-duda-part-one\/\"><strong>Lunatic Soul<\/strong><\/a>, *<i>Low<\/i>-era David Bowie<\/p>\n<p>Considering the pedigree of the better-known half of this duo, one might expect <i>Brilliant Waves<\/i> to lean in a muscular and \u201cproggy\u201d direction.\u201d Bassist <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/colin-edwin-progressive-in-any-language\/\"><strong>Colin Edwin<\/strong><\/a> is renowned for his work on twenty <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/02\/interview-steven-wilson-of-porcupine-tree-do-what-you-love-and-the-fans-will-follow\/\"><strong>Porcupine Tree<\/strong><\/a> albums, plus many other projects that showcase a harder, musically challenging side of rock. But the darkly hypnotic mood pieces on this (essentially) instrumental album have more in common with the contemplative works of <strong>Philip Glass<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/04\/festival-review-big-ears-2014-day-3-part-2\/\"><strong>Steve Reich<\/strong><\/a>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/02\/moogfest-recap-day-2-part-1-brian-enos-illustrated-talk\/\">Brian Eno<\/a><\/strong>. Which isn&#8217;t to suggest that the eight compositions are the sonic equivalent of wallpaper; there are melodies and beats, and Edwin plays Ebow and guitar as well as an assortment of basses. Brescia, Italy-based drummer <strong>Alessandro Pedretti<\/strong> is Edwin&#8217;s counterpart, and the result of the two musicians&#8217; collaboration isn&#8217;t too far removed from some of Porcupine Tree&#8217;s early instrumental works, most notably their oft-overlooked 1998 album <i>Metanoia<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Brian Eno, Lunatic Soul, *Low-era David Bowie Considering the pedigree of the better-known half of this duo, one might expect Brilliant Waves to lean in a muscular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,40,49,56,65],"tags":[2611,2587],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ambient","category-instrumental","category-new-release","category-prog","category-review","tag-alessandro-pedretti","tag-colin-edwin","cat-5-id","cat-40-id","cat-49-id","cat-56-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}