July 15, 2008
LF-011 Transgressions - Ric Tutlo
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Ric
Tutlo's "Transgressions" is a unique recording whichshowcases many
styles of the bass guitar - several of which are rarely,if ever,
attempted - and manages to wrap them all into a succinct,highly musical
album.
The record begins with "Reality in RealTime," an
intelligent, danceable track that features tribal rhythms,but
interestingly, no backbeat. It pulsates like a Trancetune,
hooking in the listener with its hypnotic rhythm, but offering amuch
more nuanced, subtle experience than conventional Trancemusic.
"Transgressions" progresses into spaced-out, cinematicambient on "Man
Down," which features an echoing vocal sample thatsounds as if it's
getting more and more distant from the earth.
"Divine Post" features Tutlo's bass inyet another
context as he demonstrates his proficiency at theinstrument in a
jangling, classically influenced solo piece beforemoving on to "CCSO,"
a spooky vocal interlude in which the bassprovides backdrop
atmospherics.
"Above a Whisper" is another virtuosicpiece in an
airy, jazz-inflected style that builds unexpectedly into aclimax of
hypnotic riffing. Tutlo introduces percussioneffects and the fuzz
bass on the funky "Not Now," a highly effective,catchy piece that again
demonstrates Tutlo's leanings toward electronicdance music.
"Mir" - presumably about the Russianspace station,
though the word can mean both "Peace" and "World" - isthe most ambient
piece on the record - a moody conglomerate ofotherworldly sound effects
and bell tones which builds gradually into adark ambient soundscape.
"Transgressions" quickly switches gearsfor the last
time and glides into "Bipolar Eclipse," a contemplative,reverb-soaked
solo bass recording which foreshadows the gloom andapocalypse of "End
of Everything," an appropriately-titled cacophony ofvocals and bass
sounds which climaxes in a swell of noisy distortionthat halts all of
the other sounds to a silent stillness. After this blazing
apocalypse, Tutlo reintroduces the opening bass lineas if to say to the
listener that his instrument and the music itcreates will survive long
after everything else is gone.
A true musician's album,"Transgressions" depicts the
possibilities inherent in a singleinstrument when one man's creative
vision takes force.
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