Various - Spaciousness

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 24 / 12 / 2018

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Ying? She likes Yang. Like two peas in an iPod, this double album shows two faces. It is time consuming on side A with new age hippies Abdul Mogard and Matthew David. Side B brightens up a wee bit. Yet soon enough, Private Agenda's Discovery Channel muzak gets on your tits. On to Side B track 2, and the first moment with a surprise, 'Chatterscope' by Cathy Lucas turns out to be a jotted ditty of small proportions, and unlike most of the tracks here usies very little time. MJ Lallo's 'Birth of a Star Child' again means little but then Jon Tye and Ulrich Schnauss knock on the door to offer some value with 'Orange Cascade'. It is more of the same with India Jordan's 'Rest' which proves to be more champagne or mineral water advertising music. The inherent logic as promised follows in yang and starts on side C with Blackwater's intriguing, dark and sinister track, 'Woodstock'. Full of industrial echoes, 'Woodstock' brings back to mind the grim 1980s rather than the loose late 1960s. Susumu Yokota's 'Wave Drops' in the D.K. remix then next entirely changes the mood. Gone is the wish-washy muzak tone of lazy indifference and adventurism enters the stage. 'Wave Drops' is a subtle play of smashing chords before it melts down and drifts off into oblivion. Laraaji - a recognized household name in boredom - and Seahawkes follow with their 'Space Bubbles' and reluctantly take less than three minutes. 'If You Can't Understand This Plague, How Could An Alien?' by Andras kicks off side D in such a grand way that it's finished before you realize it's over. It is a gripping intermezzo very much needed in this sequence, upon which the great meet the minnows. it is followed by 'Song For Ingo Swann' by Teleplasmiste which is yet again an example of winding down in unspectacular fashion. There is flickering and mesmerizing excitement next on Yamaneko's 'Lost Winter's Hiding', which offers plenty of dark mystery and gentle brightness at the same time. Last honours go to Carlos Niño & Iasos on 'Going Home'. A 'Star Trek' type of home voyage closure, where you can imagine early birds chirping. Ying 1 - Yang 4.

Track Listing:-

1 Flecks of Endless Spaces
2 Ode To Flora
3 Ultramarine
4 Chatterscope
5 Birth of a Star Child
6 Orange Cascade
7 Rest
8 Woodstock
9 Wave Drops (DK Remix)
10 Space Bubbles
11 If You Can't Understand This Plaque, How Could an Alien
12 Song for Ingo Swann
13 Lost Winters Hiding
14 Going Home

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