Sleeping in the Dead Pool, by former_airline

Sleeping in the Dead Pool

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Decoration De Sentiment, Control Factor, The Air Garden, 4 Fragments in the Mist, Nu Creative Dreads ~The Secret Dub Life of former_airline, 2011 OR SO...Selected Works 2011-2015, A Meteor Stream Attack on the Control Tower, and Sleeping in the Dead Pool. , and , .

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1.	Skysensor 02:52	buy track
2.	Portrait of a City 02:56	buy track
3.	Skysensor 2 05:27	buy track
4.	Airway to your Skull 03:36	buy track
5.	The Day of Forever 04:24	buy track
6.	Portrait of a City 2 02:06	buy track
7.	Music from the Death Lounge 07:36	buy track
8.	AWV1_1_1 10:36	buy track

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Originally released on CDR from ephre imprint, UK, 2011

ephre presents a highly varied and ambitious album from masaki kubo (aka former_airline). from the cold opening minimalism of ‘skysensor’ via the strangely warped harmonies of ‘the day of forever’ and the dense rhythmic abstractions of ‘music from the death lounge’, this is an album that twists and turns down unexpected musical corridors. some may also recognise certain thematic nods to the master of unbound sci-fi psycho eroticism, jg ballard.

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This is all a bit more noise based, with gritty, somewhat distorted sounds from radio, lo-fi electronics, synthesizers and such like. Occasionally loud, such as in ‘Airway To Your Skull’, but interestingly enough also contemplative, such as in ‘The Day Of Forever’ and ‘Music From The Death Lounge’ - which may even been taking the piss out of the glitch ambient movement, with somewhat up-speed tapes. Quite a varied disc, this one, with some interesting thoughts about noise music, through eight varied pieces, loud and a bit more quiet.

— Frans De Waad (VITAL WEEKLY#804)

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released October 25, 2011

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former_airline Tokyo, Japan

Masaki Kubo has been exploring and developing his sound since the 1990s through various bands and his own experiments with guitar, electronics, tape and more. This sonic cosmos came together under the name former_airline towards the end of the millennium’s first decade, which has drawn comparisons to author J.G. Ballard and been referred to as “sci-fi psycho-eroticism” or "dystopian snapshots”. ... more

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