Circuit

Landing | Format: Audio CD

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• Audio CD (October 19, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B000A2GGF6
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #623,924 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Making A Universal Circuit, January 4, 2011

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This review is from: Circuit (Audio CD)

Sounding as if nests full of hornets are being levitated into the air through the virtue of the afterwake of a windfunnel, the heavy, droning fuzz that marks the beginning of the opening track "White Walls" and continues for roughly the next minute is initially off-putting and dissonant, until notes begin to peal off of Aaron Snow's guitar like heavily elongated drops of moisture from a tree branch, Adrienne Snow's keyboard's begin their distinctive swirling, and bassist Dick Baldwin, with the help of drummer Daron Gardner establish an almost narcotic tempo. Landing has often been associated with Windy and Carl, not only because each band contains a spousal couple and have released a split recording, but also the similarities in the heavily-modulated, effect-driven sound they are able to coax out of keyboard and guitar, creating highly textural recordings. Unlike Windy and Carl, however, Landing employs a full-time rhythm section (Windy and Carl, having lost their rhythm section to the formation of Fuxa, have been a duo for well over fifteen years), and vocals are a prominent element on "Circuit" as well as tracks subsequent releases something only sporadically present on most of Windy and Carl's recordings.

And there are other differences as well. Windy and Carl tend to build their music around heavy drones, whereas Landing tends to employ more conventional structures ("Summer Song", "Across the Sky", and "Coming Down") . Both Carl Hutlgren and Aaron Snow tend to use effects to coax a levitational, shimmering sound from their guitars, but Hultgren's is richer in ambience and introspection, whereas Snow's is heavily modulated to be more echo-directed and tonally more expansive, though with a glacial sharpness. While Windy and Carl often create soundscapes that aurally replicate physical environments("Antarctica" and "Depths") or intimate states of mind ( "Consciousness" and "Songs For The Brokenhearted"), there is more of a vastness to Landing's guitar work, almost interstellar, nowhere more apparent than on the nine-minute plus final track, "A Song", whose effects suggest waveforms beamed toward the furthest corners of the universe. "Convergence" the primary instrumental track on "Circuit" is curiously bouyant, full of delay and reverb, when contrasted with the massive elongation and infinite, almost glacial feel of the guitar work on the rest of the disc, with "Summer Song" also delivering a positive vibe. "Circuit" is probably the best entry point for those who are new to Landing, and this CD is definitely recommended.