Minimal Compact - Lowlands Flight '1986

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       As part of the Made for Measure series of records of soundtrack material,
Lowlands Flight diverges from Minimal Compact's usual avant-garde rock songs.
One side of the disc has music that accompanied a performance by Blue Ran
Dances, while the other side contains background music for a Holland radio
program, and as might be expected, most of these pieces are atmospheric and
moody instrumentals. Not that some of Minimal Compact's more typical moves don't
show up, from the bits of Middle Eastern melody that sift through on many of the
tracks to the slow and clunky, but thunderous drum rhythms on "The Conference of
Snakes," to the dark but elegant atmosphere that permeates the record. A few
tracks like "Scums & Halfwits" have some distorted vocals, and several more
pieces, especially on the second half, add in bits of spoken word. There is some
nice piano work on several of the pieces, especially "Clock Bird" and
"Waterfall." On "Clock Bird" the slow gloomy melody is carried on the low end of
the keys while a pair of repetitive chords at the high-end act as rhythm, and on
"Waterfall" the piece starts off with a bouncy guitar lick before more complex
piano blossoms out of it. "Naked as You Came" is an even stranger piece, even in
Minimal Compact's repertoire, as some crooning and Hawaiian guitar are thrown in
for a haunting and beautiful piece of avant-lounge. A few of the other pieces
don't really rise above their status as "background" music, but Lowlands Flight
does offer a different take on Minimal Compact, and is one of the more dynamic
records in the Made for Measure series.

Tracklist:
1 01. Minimal Compact - Clock Bird (06:46)
1 02. Minimal Compact - Ararat (02:38)
1 03. Minimal Compact - Scums & Halfwits (03:14)
1 04. Minimal Compact - Low Flight (04:09)
1 05. Minimal Compact - Fata Polis (03:30)
1 06. Minimal Compact - How Do You Regard Suicide (04:57)
1 07. Minimal Compact - The Conference Of Snakes (05:27)
1 08. Minimal Compact - Waterfall (03:38)
1 09. Minimal Compact - Naked As You Came (04:01) 

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