Released
1995
Label
Self-released
Reviewed by
Kim Alexander
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Last Edit/Update
20 juli, 1998
The Merigars
THE LANGUAGE OF NOW
Track Listing
1. Thunderbird Motel Yesterday
2. America At Night
3. Give to the Water
4. This Heart
5. Dream (9.29.94)
6. The Danger
7. Bent Cities
8. Some One Will Always Sing
9. Yearly Sleep Pome
10. A Night In February
11. Jane's Green Eyes
12. Eyelids of Madness/Darkness
{the system is hidden holy evil}
13. Last Train Blues
14. Man Star Earth
The Language of Now is an excellent collaboration between Grainfield's Joshua Peck and Broca's Area. Whirring electronica
and spacious synth harmonics set the stage for Joshua Peck's spoken word
on topics ranging from "The system is 'holy-evil'", "Eyelids of
Madness/Darkness", to the darker more ambient works in "Bent Cities".
"Thunderbird Motel" is a
sensuous reminescent description by Joshua of a stay at the Thunderbird Motel,
supported with music by Broca's Area of "erotic innocense of her
mouth...I smell the immovable smell...I stare at the dim outline of her face...The hair
around the face like a low slung halo...What good is the physical...if the mental is
worthless and empty? -- That's why it all matters daily. The gift of thinking, speaking,
creating...and share and share and share..." -- an excellent track!
"America At Night" is
equally as good as the previous track -- puppy influenced, blended with oddities of sounds
and continuous sequencing. A very upbeat piece of work yet errily finessed and well
rounded, leading into "Give To The Water", a growling synthetic sequenced work
of art lending ear to a warning perhaps about the state of our water on the planet.
Ironically as I listened to this track, sitting in my van in downtown Denver in 90+ degree
temperatures, a man of dark skin walked by with two plastic gallons of water, one in each
hand -- walking with a struggling gait in the heat, sweat trickled from my brow.
"The Heart" is a more
tribal sounding track, a nice change from the previous works yet blends into
"Dream" with more snarling, growling synth-insertions and Joshua's
vision of dance and a woman talking about the university of Brooklyn, computers and
commitment, and her voice feels him in an echo...
"The Danger of Nature" is
a dark mysteriously ambient noise piece, threatening and twisted -- a good track for the
X-files!
It's been my experience that ANY
releases with Broca's Area is excellent and not to be missed by the serious electronic
enthusiast! Email John, or Joshua for a tape if they'll let it go, it is definitly
worth hearing.