I’m going through a wordless music phase that started last summer when my wife and I fell under the spell of Harold Budd’s The Room.
From Pelican’s The Fire In oUr Throat… to Daniel Lanois’ Belladonna to Richard thompson’s soundtrack to Grizzly Man, there has been
a lot of provocative instrumental music around.
LARSEN’s Seies (Improtant Records) is a novel addittion to this list.
I don’t know squat about the history of the italian four-some’s “orchestrated ambience” but on this new outing their moody maneuvers are fetching indeed.
Her are your keywords: whispers, drones, buzzing, cello, repetition, glockenspiel, electronics, shadows.
If you still cherish Eno’s Music For Films and are just realizing that the chance to see that kind of gorgeous, nuanced progstrumentals perfromed live
doesn’t come often, get excited and head to …
(larsens’ forthcoming shows listed here)

Jim Macnie
The Providence Phoenix, March 10-16, 2006