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Tomorrowland is the duo of Nick Brackney and Steve Baker, based in
Michigan, who debuted with the single
I Wish I Was An Angel (Motorway, 1997) and a music that is slowly
evolving ambient filaments produced by manipulating acoustic instruments.
Stereoscopic Soundwaves (Darla, 1997) offers an even more extreme
treatment of sound. Arrival, Sea of Serenity and
A Drop Of Golden Sun hark back to 1970s kosmische musik even if the
duo does not employ electronics. The lengthy Kepler Planet Harmonies
marks a departure in that the analysis of scientific properties of digital
sound prevail over the construction of mood.
The trancey, tribal single Futurist (Burnt Hair, 1998)
focused again on textural dynamics.
Much improved technology allows much more complex overdubbing on
Sequence Of The Negative Space Changes (Kranky, 1998), an album
that is alternatively spiritual and visionary, on one hand releasing the
transcendental and quasi-melodic drones of
Sunspot, Sunbeam and Mantric, on the other hand
painting alien landscapes in Venus and Saturn.
Unfortunately, the duo discovers polyphony only for a few minutes, in the
tragic, symphonic impressionism of Synapse.
The rest of the album is a complex kind of "solo" music, even if made by a
multitude of treated instruments. The duo's compositional technique suppresses
the individual "personae" and secretes one, neutral, amorphous voice.
Anemone (Red Antenna, 2003) collects lo-fi electroacoustic experiments.
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