review
Aquarius Records
Review of original CDr version of 'Parsimònia'
As frustrating as superlimited cd-r's can be, you really can complain when faced with music this dark and
mysteriously lovely. You can wish that someone would have the foresight to know when a record was amazing,
and thus might press more than 130 copies, but again, we're happy that 130 more people get a chance to hear
this record. The UK three piece known as Rameses III have been quietly laboring away for 5 or 6 years now,
having released cd-r's on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 267 Lattajjaa and handful of others. Their sound is
hushed, a whispery drone, disembodied guitars, the sounds of running water and bird calls, bowed strings,
shimmering ambience, a slow melodic churn through dark mysteries and warm soft soundscapes. Parsimonia was
originally released on Foxy Digitalis way back in 2004, this reissue adds some spiffy new artwork and like
we said, gives 130 more people the chance to enjoy some gorgeous late night drone and shimmer.
Which actually
means 30 AQ customers as this is frustratingly already out of print and we took all the copies the label
had left. The sound on Parsominia is just more of what we've come to love about Rameses III, soft subtle
soundscapes cobbled together from natural sounds and delicately crafted drones, never better exemplified
than on the title track, a nearly 12 minute track of warm melodic swells, broadcast across a spring meadow,
birds chirp, families laugh and talk, the wind rustles the leaves, all the while a huge shimmery cloud of
muted rumble and soft focused sonic swirl drifts dreamlike through the trees. The rest of Parsimonia is
equally drifty and dreamy, incorporating chiming bells, gentle finger picked steel string guitar and mumbly
murky feedback into sweet sweet swells of mystical and transcendental sound.
LIMITED TO 130 COPIES, OF WHICH WE GOT 30. IT'S ALREADY OUT OF PRINT SO ONCE THESE ARE GONE THEY ARE GONE FOR
GOOD (or until some other cd-r label decides to press up 100 more, arghh!)
2006/04/00