Blues Control & Laraaji - Awakening Day
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From FRKWYS Vol. 8 feat. Blues Control & Laraaji on RVNG Intl. (FRKWYS08)
For the eighth installment of their collaborative, generation-gap-closing FRKWYS series, RVNG Int’l have united Philly noise rockers Blues Control with mystical zitherist/composer Laraaji, whom you might remember from his work with Brian Eno in 1980 for Ambient 3: Day of Radiance. In keeping with the concept of the series, the three musicians got together in a studio, jammed for several hours, shared notes, and edited down the resulting improvisations to a finished Vol. 8. “Awakening Day” opens the album with a breath of fresh air at sunrise. The synthesizer drones so often relied on in this nu age of ours give way to warped swells of electronically modified guitar, zither, and marimba— refreshingly organic in character despite the liberal application of effects and acoustic manipulation. Both Blues Control and Laraaji are seasoned explorers of the present tense in music, effortlessly blending their varying approaches to the Now while allowing each component to exist freely, without an ascribed linearity.
— Matt Sullivan, Altered Zones
