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Underwater by DreamLand

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Ambient | New Age

8 tracks | 52 minutes

Released Oct 2002
on Uncle Buzz

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Underwater is decent, though not groundbreaking, electronic ambient music that is neither new age nor experimental rock or electronica. It's for people who like new age who are looking for something a little more daring and more disturbing, perhaps, or trance music aficionados who want something that's often placid in its textures, but still challenging. Johnny A. Rodriguez and James Sidlo are the multi-instrumentalists that create most of the soundscapes, with some help from a couple of friends. Rodriguez's synthesizers supply the dense electronic, room-filling eerieness that will probably land this on your noncommercial new age/electronic program. Sidlo's guitars and processing are on the whole more keening and foreboding, displaying an impressive range of dive-bombing and buzzing timbres, at times getting into dark and vaguely apocalyptic territory. Spooky, Gregorian-like deep vocal-electronic effects are skillfully deployed in "I Frequency, Dream in Soundwaves," and Sidlo's guitar takes on an almost desert Southwestern feel (albeit heavily processed) for "Brief Moon." ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

San Antonio-based ambient-trance band DreamLand has released their first full-length album of instrumental soundscapes with Dogfingers/Uncle Buzz Records, a Texas-based collective of experimental music artists and producers. Musicians Johnny A. Rodriguez (synthesizers, keyboards, Native American flutes and extended vocals) and James Sidlo (guitar, loops and atmospherics) have created instrumental pieces that will float through your stereo soundsystem like wind through an open window. Extended family (augmenting musicians) include "Bobdog" Catlin (whale bass, effects) and Stephanie Key (clarinet, ocarina and processing).

Underwater is meant to be not just an album, but an experience. The music is a piece of sonic architecture whose minor elements create a synthesized whole. Elements of this album range from Tangerine Dream-like explorations via extended vocals to sound-stylings similar to Fripp/Eno, Steve Roach and Robert Rich.

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