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Seaworthy "Codes Adrift"


Drone is not dead; it just went on holiday, left a polaroid of itself and tricked everyone into thinking it was easy. Seaworthy take two approaches to making relevant drone – the first a valiant attempt to get back to basics a la Elaine Radigue, throwing in a few plucked strings to keep our attention held - nice enough but hardly inspiring. The second is much more successful, developing its thoughts over the course of nearly double the duration of the first track and disrupting the former’s artifice in a number of ways, scattering the dark blue tone with negative interference and forcing it to constantly re-configure itself. The result is an attractively frustrated drone, one that is always denying itself the consummation of total tone and always being shifted with slants of insect-like pulses and delicate, virtual dulcimer patterns. The glitches at first seem utterly incongruent with the apparent raison d’Ítre of the medium, but gradually begin to be the focal point of the composition, the overtones moving towards them in a kind of chorus, becoming disparate and re-forming, urging onward and receding in equal measure. The tone itself isn’t all that gorgeous, but manages that silvery spaciousness thing quite capably, and the overtones could have weaved just that little more subtly and colourfully – but by and large this is a much more successful entry into the canon of computerised drone than most. 6/10 -- Evan Rhodes (29 October, 2008)

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Seaworthy "Kiola" Lovely EP from these Aussies... review :: by Charles Franklin (29 January, 2008)
 

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