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Bathtub Curve

 
Album Review: Bathtub Curve

  • Artist: Brian Reinbolt
  • Rating: StarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1996
  • Total Time: 65:49
  • Genre: Electronica

Review

Fourteen wonderfully humorous and equally mysterious short electronic soundimages generated from patch groups on the Roland D-550 synthesizer: "Spores" and "Snort" both employ wonky and weird floating sounds above scratching and shuffling rhythms; "Men and Boys" has lovely, slowly swelling pure tones in a call and response dialogue of high and low pitches; "Tinnitus" has tiny bell-like tones with almost shrill very high-pitched sustains. Also included are "Ululate," the wildly rhythmic "Ratchet," "Still Not Answered" with its deeply meditative atmosphere, the jolly "Knocks" (almost Harry Partch-like in its timbres and rhythmic feel), "Fingernail," the "Chuckle" of some alien creature (from a "Forbidden Planet" Id?), a "Wedding March" with the gamelan-like bells dissolving in the echoes of some fantasy landscape, a decidedly 21st-century ballad entitled "Diva," the mysterious and cavernous "Pass," and the appropriately placed concluding selection "Termination," a wildly polyrhythmic and anxious chase. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Spores Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (5:02)
Snort Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (5:29)
Men and Boys Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (5:20)
Tinnitus Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (4:09)
Ululate Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (5:31)
Ratchet Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (4:02)
Still Not Answered Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (5:17)
Knocks Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (3:01)
Fingernail Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (2:31)
Chuckle Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (4:34)
Wedding March Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (6:20)
Diva Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (3:48)
Pass Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (4:52)
Termination Brian Reinbolt Brian Reinbolt (5:53)

Credits

Maggi Payne (Engineer), Brian Reinbolt (Synthesizer), Michael Sumner (Photography), Michael Sumner (Cover Photo), Michael Sumner (Design), Brian Reinbolt (Keyboards), Maggi Payne (Mixing)
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