King Chubby: Qedeshim
- Euronyme
- Maira
- Coatilicue
- Qedeshim
- Ch'ang-O
- Derceto
- Lilith
- Athra Qaddisa
- Astarte
- Dakini
- Primal Chaos
This King Chubby album is a vibrant collection of both natural and electronic
instrumentation. The majority of the tonal ambience is derived from electronic
means while the diverse variety of percussion comes from purely natural
sources. All different types of ethnic percussion are used from Aborignal to
Southeast Asi and many more than I am not familiar with. Primarily most of the
music is very mellow and trance like. The percussion is used more as a
meditation element rather than to create an environment tribal dance. One minor
side effect of this much natural instrumentation is the 'dirty' sound of the
final mixdown of several of the tracks. Technically speaking it must have been
a nightmare for the engineer on this album to record this project because of
the sheer variety of sound sources. Overall he did an excellent job but there
are still a few places where the certain tones wash out or simply sound wrong.
In any event, the album is a wonderful collection of both modern and ethnic
tones which should appeal to a wide section of the music listening public and
should not be missed.
King Chubby is: King Chubby, Ed Bialek, Marc Black & Will Ryan
Contact:
King Chubby
860 U.N. Plaza 18D
New York, NY 10017
(212) 421-8892
E-mail: kingchubby@aol.com
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