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Reverbaphon "Here Comes Everyone" Benbecula Records, 2007 (BEN040CD) CD Album 5060110361267 Release date: 3 December 2007 BUY THIS RELEASE Track Listing 01 Broad Island 02 Us Mob 03 Sea Minor Grave 04 Sferics 05 The Existential Sheriff 06 Lapsed Catalyst 07 Mbiraphon 08 Here Comes Everyone 09 Ainu Waulking Song 10 Space Ship Earth Reverbaphon returns with a brand new album that delves once again into experimental avant rock infused with highly innovative use of hardware samplers and FX. Drawing influences from all corners of the globe Reverbaphon illustrates that his immutable style is one of complete freedom of expression. Reviews "Reverbaphon's third album for Benbecula is drawn from recordings made between 2004 and 2006, with more of the concise and crafted pieces that made his first two albums notable. Working alone, Paul Smith has made it his mission to create serious music in an unserious way. If something can make a sound he will record it: this is the unserious part. There are guitars, E-bow, drum machine samples, swanny whistles, melodica, and keyboard. The sounds are then layered and woven into aural tapestries, this being the serious bit. There's a clockwork music box charm to 'Mbiraphon'. The Existential Sheriff is expansive and elegiac with a languorous drift of chiming guitar arpeggios before it breaks into scuttling, jazzy percussion. The attention to detail in these raises them above the mundane." The Wire "Post-rock, avant-rock, whatever you want to call it, the latest LP from Reverbaphon is a chin-scratching affair. With a mix of ambient electronics, samplers, and free jazz rhythms, Here Comes Everyone switches from melodious textures to experimental riffing with amazing confidence and skill." XLR8R / Weekly Top 10 "... a spacious and open-ended foray into organic avant-folk (occasionally tending towards psych-folk) that encompasses multiple styles without committing itself too pointedly to any single one." Textura "Hier mal jemand, der von Platte zu Platte einfach immer besser wird. Und wahrscheinlich nur noch zwei weitere Releases braucht, bis er sich alle übrig gebliebenen Flausen selber aus dem Kopf gezogen hat und bereit ist, die Welt zu erobern. Reverbaphon hat es raus, wie man feine Tracks macht, die einen ganz tief drinnen begeistern und nicht mehr loslassen. Warm die Gitarre, warm die Flächen, sanft die Beats. Und wenn er seine komischen Kontaktmikro-Orgien mal einfach vergessen würde, genau wie seine immer wieder aufblitzende Zirkus-Quietschigkeit, dann wird das noch. Hier, auf dem neuen Album, hört man diese Dinge nur noch ab und an. Hoffentlich sind sie dann demnächst komplett weg." De:Bug "On the whole, Here Comes Everyone places far less weight in the manipulated synthetic sound and caterwauling drum departments than we saw with 2006's Get This And This And This And This And Here And, which laid its emphasis on electric guitar constructions. Granted, it doesn't cover a whole lot of new ground, that's apparently not his style, but there is a palpable sense of ripening to be heard as he blossoms into the artist he is fully capable of being." PopMatters "Here Comes Everyone is mostly an upbeat and fun experience, however Reverbaphon experiments with the mood of the track just as much as he experiments with sound ... While the album is not without downsides and inconsistencies, it is still a pleasant listen containing more than a few gems. Fans of Kieran Hebden should definitely check it out." The Silent Ballet "... the melodies and atmosphere do have a neo-Celtic feel to them, and they are combined with glitchy squeals, electronic scrapes and digital swirls, but the whole concoction is far more than that, and more complex. Often it is difficult to distinguish which is which, as often the FX plays the role of the traditional while the acoustic instrumentation takes on the deceptive disguise of being an innovative laptop contrivance." The Skinny The List Resources Reverbaphon page on Benbecula |
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