#tarentel

[voskhozhdeniye]

Tarentel - A Cloud No Bigger Than A Man's Hand

[zombimanos]

[accidental-memory]

A brief aside on one of my favorite albums: Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun, by Tarentel.

Ghetto Beats... is two and a half hours long. It can easily fit into the genres of noise, prog, ambient, and post-rock. I want to focus on the percussion.

The band's drummer takes a very interesting approach, where the drums typically do not create a beat or a time signature for the rest of the instrumentation, but rather add one more layer to the cacophony of these songs. And as a drummer's job is generally to bang out the same rhythm line after line, it is worth noticing, particularly without the accompaniment matching his beat, that every repetition has some kind of variation, sometimes clearly intentional and other times through imperfect execution, and yet both of these only ever add to the experience.

Yet despite the percussion being a standout performance, the album itself does not even feature percussion for half of its duration! In fact, on the second disc, after the first song, we get an entire contiguous 42 minutes and 38 seconds of music with no drums whatsoever. It is not until 11 minutes 17 seconds into the song "Somebody Fucks With Everybody" that the drums finally kick back in. I utterly love the confident audacity of this choice.

If you fuck with any of the genres listed above, I think you'll find something to take away from this album.

[phludbruthr]

assorted album art I love (part 1)

[zombimanos]

[maquina-semiotica]

“ Steede Bonnet”, Tarentel

[dialoogid]

Tarentel - When We Almost Killed Ourselves (1999)

[maquina-semiotica]

“ Steede Bonnet”, Tarentel