cEvin Key - The Ghost of Each Room
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Artist: cEvin KeyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2001-08-14
Music Label: Metropolis Records
Soundtracks:
- bObs Shadow
- TAtayama
- hOroPter
- 15th Shade
- Sklang
- Frozen Sky
- Aphasia
- Klora
- cccc4
- A Certain Stuuckey
Free Music Notes for The Ghost of Each Room
Free Music Review: A masterpiece of electronica
Hit: 5 Stars
With "The Ghost of Each Room", one can hear both where Cevin Key has been in the past and where he intends to go. Classic Skinny Puppy-esque rhythms and synths are present, but the mixing is modern, layered and masterful. There's a lot more influence from glitch and various other modern subgenres. The arrangements are lush and constantly shifting, making the fact that a majority of the album lacks vocals ultimately unimportant.
Cevin's music may have mellowed out since the chaotic, noisy days of Last Rights, but it's still adventurous and fresh. This album makes a great chill out record and is full of beautiful, liquid, flowing synth sound and thick bass, and has a generally upbeat, positive vibe (think of some of the instrumental tracks from Bites like "Centre Bullet"). It feels very tropical, sunny and humid and reminds me of casually strolling through a coastal town in Hawaii or some other exotic island. However, it's also incredibly dense with sound and rhythmically odd, rewarding focused listening to a large extent. I find it to be the perfect balance.
There are three vocal tracks on here, and all three are gems. "15th Shade", featuring Edward Ka-Spel of Legendary Pink Dots, is a busy, bustling piece evoking summertime in an urban metropolis. Ka-Spel tells a tension-laden story about some anonymous approaching danger, and the girl who turns to him for help, which he is ultimately unable to give... Great stuff.
"Frozen Sky" was the first time since Skinny Puppy broke up that Cevin Key reunited with Nivek Ogre, and it shows within 4 minutes why Cevin should be doing the production / effects on Ogre's vocals, and not Mark Walk. Here, Ogre's melodic vocals (which sound muffled and irritating on Skinny Puppy's two more recent reunion albums) sound absolutely gorgeous. This song is much closer to modern electronic pop / EBM but it is never-the-less great.
"A Certain Stuuckey" is a classic 9 minute tirade against typical American / English by Genesis P-Orridge, backed by what is probably the most chaotic, off-kilter arrangement on the album. P-Orridge's sarcastic quip "Imagine... no possessions! That's what John Lennon said, and you know how much you always liked John Lennon!" is a stroke of genius and never fails to make me smile.
The instrumental tracks are harder to describe, but I find "Bob's Shadow" with its expert use of theramin and "Horopter", which includes Cevin's groovy drumset playing, to be the most obvious highlights. Every track is great, though.
In conclusion, I never thought I'd say this, but "The Ghost of Each Room" is not only as good as the incredible late 80's / early 90's Skinny Puppy albums, it's also completely it's own thing. Cevin Key may have been making music for 20 years now, but his music sounds and current as anything made by younger musicians, and continues to break ground. This is a modern electronic masterpiece if I've ever heard one.
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