Collaborator

• Artist: Djam Karet
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1994
• Genre: Rock

Review

Well, this one doesn't fit in any "middle of the road" rock niches or musical genres most are familiar with. Call it goth-ambient. Djam Karet have a wide taste of influences and are musically diverse and very capable in their own compositions. Their augmentations of DAT pre-recorded sound sculptures are incredibly well envisioned and deftly executed. Gayle Ellet, Henry J. Osborne, and Mike Henderson bring subterranean, submarine, and otherworldly sounds out to the light.

What stands before the listener is fever-dreamed, phantasmic, eerie, and at times unsettling. Think soundtrack, hear haunted and looming presences. This stuff does not relieve paranoid dementia. Look at these titles if you don't understand: "Solar Flare," "Gondwanaland," "The Anointing of the Sick," "The Day After," "Foreign Lesion." "The 17th Karmapa" holds a gigantic tuning fork against your throbbing skull and oscillates on overload. Drift in an ebony sea on the forbidden planet with "Moorings" or wash up on the shores of lost kingdoms of "Cliff Spirits." The Great Deafening god approaches you in "Submersion," and then you are pulled beneath the sepulchres of Atlantis by "Food Chain" and left for dead as the band plays on. "Salt Road" is an astral trip through the Ganges to Nirvana. Collaborator then decimates sanity as Cthulhu rises from the sunken cities of "The Fearful Void." If you like your ambience dark, brooding, noisome, and draining, then Collaborator is for you. The collaborators are Marc Anderson, percussionist of Steve Tibbetts fame, Jeff Greinke, Walter Holland, Loren Nerell, Steve Roach, Kit Watkins of Happy the Man, and Carl Weingarten, with Djam Karet adding treatments to each artist's original composition. ~ John W. Patterson, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Solar Flare		Djam Karet, Walter Holland	(3:21)
Gondwanaland		Djam Karet, Kit Watkins	(4:30)
The Anointing of the Sick		Jeff Greinke, Djam Karet	(6:57)
The Day After		Djam Karet, Steve Roach	(12:36)
Foreign Lesion		Marc Anderson, Djam Karet	(4:14)
The 17th Karmapa		Carl Weingarten, Djam Karet	(3:02)
Moorings		Djam Karet, Loren Nerell, Kim Watkins	(6:52)
Cliff Spirits		Djam Karet, Walter Holland	(4:01)
Submersion		Loren Nerell, Djam Karet	(5:54)
Food Chain		Djam Karet, Steve Roach	(8:18)
Salt Road		Carl Weingarten, Djam Karet	(6:05)
The Fearful Void		Steve Roach, Djam Karet, Jeff Greinke	(6:37)

Credits

Marc Anderson (Berimbau), Henry J. Osborne (Conga), Marc Anderson (Percussion), Henry J. Osborne (Producer), Henry J. Osborne (Claves), Mike Henderson (Drums), Mike Henderson (Vocal Effect), Gayle Ellett (Producer), Gayle Ellett (Project Coordinator), Gayle Ellett (Guitar (7 String Electric)), Walter Holland (Synthesizer), Gayle Ellett (Mixing), Steve Watkins (Flute), Mike Henderson (Keyboards), Mike Henderson (Guitar (Electric)), Henry J. Osborne (Mixing), Henry J. Osborne (Keyboards), Gayle Ellett (Vocal Effect), Steve Roach (Matrix 12), Steve Watkins (Sampling), Carl Weingarten (Effects), Henry J. Osborne (Bass (Electric)), Steve Watkins (Synthesizer), Jeff Greinke (Processing), Henry J. Osborne (Glass), Gayle Ellett (Conga), Steve Roach (Sampling), Gayle Ellett (Drums), Henry J. Osborne (Rainstick), Henry J. Osborne (Radio), Gayle Ellett (Guitar (Synthesizer)), Gayle Ellett (Rainstick), Roger Seibel (Pre-Mastering), Gayle Ellett (Guitar (Steel)), Kit Watkins (Performer), Gayle Ellett (Keyboards), Gayle Ellett (Toy Instruments), Jeff Greinke (Vocals), Henry J. Osborne (Sampling), Henry J. Osborne (Metal Shaker), Loren Nerell (Synthesizer), Steve Roach (Didjeridu), Steve Roach (Processing), Jeff Greinke (Keyboards), Carl Weingarten (Dobro), Gayle Ellett (Sampling), Dave Druse (Artwork), Gayle Ellett (Metal Shaker), Kim Watkins (Performer), Henry J. Osborne (Bass), Marc Anderson (Sampling), Gayle Ellett (Talking Drum), Henry J. Osborne (Sound Effects), Henry J. Osborne (Vocal Effect)