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RAVENSTINE, ALLEN - Waiting for the Bomb

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: ReR Megacorp ReR AR2 Release Year: 2018 Note: ALLEN RAVENSTINE played with CHRIS CUTLER in PERE UBU and became an airline pilot afterwards - his second solo album for ReR is a playful ride into the reals of experimental "progressive" pop (mostly based on modular synths) with plenty of crazed out arrangements and ideas... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info Allen and I worked for several years together in the second coming of Pere Ubu before we both decided to quit at around the same time. I carried on playing – and running this label; Allen became a commercial airline pilot and designed simulator stress tests for other airline pilots. Now retirement has brought him back to music and modular synthesis and - in this unusual recording - he arrives at a hybrid musical form that is more or less without precedent: discursive, digressive and disrupted by generic and emotional shifts; a music in which real-world sounds and real-world instruments occasionally argue with - or complement - the electronic current; there’s agon here - and narrative. Narrative. Narrative. Narrative. For a largely abstract and instrumental recording, that’s a real achievement. These pieces – and the interactions between them – cumulatively capture an historical moment - allusively and elusively, out of the corner of their eyes - and, I dare to say, that’s not just an achievement, it’s a great achievement. https://allenravenstine.bandcamp.com/album /waiting-for-the-bomb