Re: Hartung's 'Fragments'

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

This is one of the best reviews I have received. Thanks, Daryl.  I owe you 
one...a nice beer at Y2K7? :)

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl Shawn" <highhorse@mhorse.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Hartung's 'Fragments'


> I've been listening to "Fragments" for weeks now since Krispen sent it 
>off 
> free (thanks!) and thought I should do a brief review. It's impossible 
>to 
> get away from the space metaphors, like everybody else...I think there's 
> no question, this album is out there!
>
> On this particular recording (Krispen's a /wide-ranging/ artist) he 
> specializes in interplanetary soundscapes, full of oddly twisted guitars 
> that repeat like babbling creatures and all kinds of far-off noises that 
> may or may not be powered by solar wind. "Mork og Iser" sounds like 
>gyoto 
> monks being encircled by serpents. "Attack of the Mini Tabla" somehow 
> finds a sexy rhythm in the confusion, unlikely as that is. That plus the 
> shocking bongo solo make it seems like a scrap of Jobim that made its 
>way 
> to another galaxy through a rip in the fabric of the universe, and 
>somehow 
> managed to jam along with the three-headed natives. The last track, 
> "Nebula", is gorgeous, its lush emotion brought into even sharper relief 
> by the stark obliquity of the preceding tracks. All in all, it's a 
> wonderful and strange ride through a place very few have visited, and 
>only 
> those with powerful telescopes and deep imagination have even glimpsed.
>
> thanks again Krispen.
>
> Daryl Shawn
> www.swanwelder.com
>
>