2017年10月25日水曜日

[157] Galaxy Express 555 - Natural Mind


Label: Sun Ark Records

Catalog#: SA-049
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2017

1 The False Spring 7:15

2 Meadows 6:52
3 Fog 4:09
4 Valleys 4:15
5 Rain 5:42
6 Winds 7:16
7 Birds 6:21

Galaxy Express 555 is under glass by Christopher Farstad with some guests; big shuddering waves of Digi-Synth Work that break apart slowly into compositions of great subtlety and photographic depth. The title is a reference to the famous work on photography by Vilem Flusser: "The photographer’s gesture as the search for a viewpoint onto a scene takes place within the possibilities offered by the apparatus. The photographer moves within specific categories of space and time regarding the scene: proximity and distance, bird- and worm’s-eye views, frontal- and side-views, short or long exposures, etc. The Gestalt of space–time surrounding the scene is prefigured for the photographer by the categories of his camera. These categories are an a priori for him. He must ‘decide’ within them: he must press the trigger."


Cover art: John Cage, Dereau, No. 11 (1982) 

Courtesy of the John Cage Trust