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A Simple Escape

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8 tracks

31:18

1	An Obscured Paradise	2:31
2	Factory of the Undead	2:34
3	Close your eyes	10:54
4	Scattered	2:35
5	The Makeshift Housing Project	3:37
6	What's a Melody Anyways	3:57
7	Chaotic Childhood	2:40
8	Electric Still Born	2:30

Album description

This album was a collection of works created in my discovery and influence of experimental intermedia arts. The tracks all have their own entities in this collection reflecting my progression into the experimental realm.

-Michael Erickson

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cvijaxo

Surrealistic Novel

19/05/09

I like titles. There is humor in them and that's always healthy.

An Obscured Paradise fools you with intro. It sounds like it'll be ambient. Far from it. This is noisy album.

Factory of undead - grat title and great industrial sounding. I can imagine this thing both as movie or as PC game (with mucho gore).

Close Your Eyes - instruction to listener to better absorb spaces and cacophonies in this noisy lenghty piece. Not good thing for very, very nervous ;). And banjo at the end LOL.

Scattered is a creapy, in spite the laoughs in it. Again good industries. I like them. Less i like white noise in foreground which makes me nervous but that's the idea I think.

Housing Project is not easier with noise. I can relate it better to some moving pictures than to pure listening 'unexperience'.

What's the melody reminds me of old casio toy synths from eighties. It wouldn't supprise me if it's done in it. And I agree,What's a Melody Enyways ? :)

And don't talk me about chaotic Childhood. At this point of listening I decide that this is one of those things you can oly hate or love there is no middle. It is demanding, and people don't like demanding things. But it is rewarding too, with sonic collages and passages. Point was near the end of album too so it means that it has good timing too.

I bought old surrealistic novel in collage by Max Ernst the other day ("Une Semaine De Bonté" I recommand it). After I've seen it in original Ernst's retrospective exibition in Danmark.

Looking those bizarre but genial collages i was thinking how I could transpose some of it in sounds, narrative without narrative. Well, this album is not Max Ernst but it is example of one of many ways to go to build very strange, surrealistic sonic narrative which is rewarding exeprience for patient listener.

Thanks for it!

Ivan1984

Realtime sonic narrative...

01/12/08

There is a sense of holism betwixt these tracks, almost epic in its narrative conception, at places a mere soundtrack to everyday life, realism and fantastic imaginative structures too. And, it all fits together curiously well. The everyday industrial realist backdrop opens huge vistas to the imagination strangely, anything on top of that is just icing on cake, so well is it constructed. It integrates well with deep-rooted subconscious memory, which can be unsettling for some but great fun for others.

In other respects its a wholesome electronic track that stands well for itself, a confident quirkiness, likeable eccentricity. All in all, through its facets and for its value as a single piece of work it is presented and thought out well. I loved it.

musictomyears

Very Interesting, Diverse, Interlligent, And Much Like a Good Story or Book, Keeps you Wondering Whats going to happen Next!

29/11/08

I liked the atmospheric, tense opening to this album, the build up....the industrial, powerful, wondering what is going to happen next... that just track one. Very movie like, sound track at times, but interesting...and fills me with wonderment and what is going to happen next...the sound effects are top quality, like a movie via the music alone.. Ihe images I see in my minds eye, via this album is fantastic....

A great piece of work this album is. Bravo