{"id":6350,"date":"2013-01-22T23:53:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T04:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2013-01-22T23:53:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T04:53:03","slug":"william-fowler-collins-tenebroso-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=6350","title":{"rendered":"William Fowler Collins – Tenebroso CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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William Fowler Collins<\/a> – Tenebroso CD<\/p>\n

Handmade Birds Records<\/a><\/p>\n

This disc from Handmade Birds is almost completely devoid of information. Adorned with deep dark artwork and a pitch black inner booklet the only information you will find here is the artist and album name on the spine. So before this disc is even spun you get quite a bleak impression of Collins’ work.<\/p>\n

Collins is a self professed dark ambient artist working in the realms of drone with an industrial tinge. Tenebroso clocks in at around an hour with a total of 6 tracks some spanning the length of 16 whopping minutes. <\/p>\n

Collins’ kicks things off with Scythe<\/i> which is perhaps the only track on here which I outright don’t like. Beginning with a noisy drone then awkwardly halting and employing floating, new-age piano poking for the second half it comes off as extremely lame and pretentious.<\/p>\n

Since Scythe<\/i> isn’t quite representative of the album I’m willing to dismiss it and lose myself in the extremely bleak and nihilistic drones that Collins’ presents with In Valleys<\/i> and What You Are Now We Used To Be<\/i> which recalls moments of Angelo Badalamenti’s ambient noise tracks on the Lost Highway score – a high point on Tenebroso for sure.<\/p>\n

Another comparison that is apt with the level of detail and style reached in the mammoth 16 minute track Tapeta Lucida<\/i> would be Malignant Record’s Terra Sancta project. Think desolate noise floors with slowly growing drones almost forming some sort of harmony but disintegrating into noise before a tone can be reached. This is a much better direction for the project than the angular new age and out-context pianos featured in Scythe<\/i>.<\/p>\n

When all is said and done Tenebroso isn’t a landmark album by any means but Collins’ does pay attention to detail and is consistent with his vision. I think Tenebroso may be a great album to some and rather dull to others yet that’s the risk one takes when composing such subtle music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Composition:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sounds:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Production Quality:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Concept:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Packaging:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Overall Rating:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\" <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Fowler Collins – Tenebroso CD
\nHandmade Birds Records
\nThis disc from Handmade Birds is almost completely devoid of information. Adorned with deep dark artwork and a pitch black inner booklet the only information you will find here is the artist and album name on the spine. So before this disc is even spun you get quite a bleak impression of Collins’ work.
\nCollins is a self professed dark ambient artist working in the realms of drone with an industrial tinge. Tenebroso clocks in at around an hour with a total of 6 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-webzine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}