Vital Weekly Review of "MTEL"

CROW FEATHERS - MOVES TO E.LANSING (cassette by Turgid Animal)

Brandon Miller, the man behind Crow Feathers doesn't trust Vital Weekly to own their own cassette player, so he added a CDR of the music that can be found on 'Moves To E. Lansing'. Miller plays guitar, synthesizer and electronics. Turgid Animal is known to release noise music, and there are indeed moments when Miller shows his love of the genre, but not until we are well into the fourth piece 'Kursk Magnetic Anomaly'. The three preceding pieces are filled with soft tinkling guitars and likewise soft keyboard moves on 'Elegia', which ends with some force, before the real thunder starts. The noise piece isn't well spend on me, but the three tracks on the b-side aren't like that at all. Here Miller further explores the use of guitar and electronics in a rather melodious manner, but also in a free spirit. He doesn't let his sound to be restricted inside a composition, but rather sets a more free, spacious tone for them. Quite cosmic in approach, even when 'A Meditation' is hardly meditative, but a more angular take on cosmic music. Quite nice stuff altogether, and certainly should have found its way to a CDR release, me thinks. (FdW)