Resurgam

Alias | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Anticon
• ASIN: B001BGRZ28
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,463 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

In August 2007, after eight years of innovating in Oakland, Alias went home to Portland, Maine, a city which, despite plenty of inclement weather, has burned almost to the ground four times whose Latin motto translates in no uncertain terms to I will rise again. Thus, that motto, Resurgam, is a doubly fitting title for Alias' first solo instrumental album in five years, one which finds the accomplished electro/acoustic musician and beat-smith returning to a proven foundation, while building all else anew.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hip-hop Yin, August 28, 2008

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David M. Madden "nonnon/dj_webern" (salt lake, utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resurgam (Audio CD)

Alias's work follows the sample-heavy, drum machined (note the title "I Heart Drum Machines"), bit-reduced formula of hip-hop, and though he's also known for producing harder stuff for the likes on Sage Francis, here he prefers to package it all with a lighter, sometimes fey (ala his work with Tarsier) approach, dropping tripped-out folk guitar and softer sounds as well as crunchy snares into his MPC. He counterposes every big-beat ("New to a Few") and spry "dance" track ("Well Water" with Why?) with pulpy pieces such as the spacious piano-driven "Weathering" (Featuring The One AM Radio)" and a droning, otherworldly radio transmission on "Place of No More Choices". For all the Public Enemy and Wu-Tang you listen to all week, it's nice to put on something that incorporates the same elements but does so at a languid pace, just to refuel or take a break on a foggy morning.