5.0 out of 5 stars
Refreshing, Cleansing, and Food For Thought, August 5, 2006
This review is from: Fire In The Hole (Audio CD)
Very, very interesting. On first pass, this is merely a modestly competent ambient/electronic album. It took me several passes (and a little bit of external research) to realise that it's a concept piece, and a very haunting concept piece at that. It is the life of Satam al-Suqami' from childhood to martyrdom -- from the playground to his final descent into the side of the twin towers. There's nothing political going here (as far as I can tell, but I obviously can't read the arabic on the inside of the insert), just a context for some moody, brooding textures with some soft middle eastern touches. A far more realized effort than his earlier F*ckscapes (the concept on that disc is pretty self-evident in the title), and not at all wanky like some of his projects with other people (e.g., In Search Of The Brown Note w/Phil Dole of Chord). Even the excrusiatingly long "Nine Hundred Eleven Seconds" works -- it serves a purpose and it pays off.
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