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Robert Davies - Sub Rosa.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Sub Rosa
Artist: Robert Davies
Year: 2006
Genre: New Age / Electronic / Ambient
DESCRIPTION
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Pity me, a poor ambient music critic, when confronted with a CD like Robert Davies' outstanding release, Sub Rosa. The words that came to my mind the first time I played this album were "pretty" "beautiful" and even "gorgeous" all of which are poison to many supposed "fans" of the genre who prefer their music to be sterile, cold, and dark lest some accuse it of being too "new agey". Now, without getting into the philosophical idiocy of that kind of thinking, let me stress that Sub Rosa is not the least bit "new agey" but it is arrestingly beautiful at times, sometimes quite pretty, and there are moments when it is flat out gorgeous. However, it is, body and soul, lock, stock and barrel, head over heels, an AMBIENT album. Okay, can we all agree on that? Whew! Now I can get on with praising yet another amazing release from one the more unheralded ambient labels around, Dataobscura.
Cloud Shadows starts things off with hazy melancholic undulations of low pitched organ swells, background electronic effects, and a flowing sense of melody which suggests the drifting cloudscapes of the title. Next up, Moon Chart opens with a brief flurry of panning spacy EM noises and textures before reverberating bell tones smooth out the rough edges and a warm drone caresses the periphery.
Before I go further, let me state that Davies may have gone to the "Tim Story song titling school" because, on some cuts, he shares that artist's knack for crafting deliciously visual yet somewhat ambiguous phrases. He also shares some musical traits with Story as well on a few tracks (Story is the master of tragic minimalism in ambient music). This comparison can be first detected on Her Refracted Eyes wherein the keyboards are almost palpably forlorn yet so, well, dammit, "PRETTY" that they nearly bring tears to my eyes. You might also draw comparisons between Davies and Harold Budd, but I think Story is a more pronounced likeness (albeit without the latter's abundance of acoustic piano). This track just begs to be put on "repeat" play, in my opinion, but then one would miss out on more gems like the gentle romanticism of "River Willow Shallows" which melds deeply echoed bell tones and smooth synth washes yielding a softly pastoral evocation, not unlike some of Darshan Ambient's work. "Mossy Stone Decay" ushers in a mood of shadow and mystery, but not in any way foreboding or dark, but more on the order of lack of light and coming upon an aged crumbling building in a forest clearing.
Sub Rosa is another sterling jewel from Dataobscura. When combined with Lammergeyer's Beneath the Sky, the label has a one-two punch among the finest ambient releases not just of this year but probably the decade so far. I know zilch about Robert Davies, but I sure hope this is just the start of his musical career. If this album is any indication of what he's capable of, ambient music lovers have lots of aural bliss to look forward to in the years ahead. Sub Rosa gets my highest recommendation. And, yes, I still maintain it's downright "beautiful", so there!
- reviewed by Bill Binkelman on 7/23/2006
http://www.zonemusicreporter.com/recording/viewreviews.asp?rvwbrdcmmt=318
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 13 [the tracks are not separated]
NOTE: I just posted the lossless version of this in alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.new-age, and there is a cue file with that post ;^)
Total Duration: 1:08:13
Total Size: 254 MBs (including scans, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: 320k CBR / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 28 November 2015
Tracklist
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01) Cloud Shadows
02) Moon Chart
03) Encrypted Sleep
04) Her Refracted Eyes
05) Fragrance Of Ether
06) River Willow Shallows
07) Cobwebs In Morning Glow
08) Mossy Stone Decay
09) Elemental Spell
10) Evening Shroud
11) Rose Petals Dripping Wet
12) Encrypted Dream
13) Cloud Whispers
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