REVIEW: KOAN - FRONTIERS

 

KOAN - FRONTIERS (Red Stream, 2000):

Technical data:

Recorded by Spher

Art by Steve Miller / Extremities

Track List: 1- Transe in (Forest), 2- Innocent, 3- Unfolding Spaces, 4- Neon Dreams, 5- Underwaters, 6- Looking for the frontiers, 7- Disintegrating, 8-Chaos, 9- Transe Out (rain)

Koan´s music is really weird. Full of electronics and ambient parts with some vocals, and heavy use of keyboards and programming. In fact the vocals here are used as another instrument. That is, the voices here are doing melodies in order to make the result stranger and sometimes they are harmonized in order to create some weird chants (sometimes kind of gregorian, sometimes kind of tribal). There are some electronic drums that give rhythm to some of the tracks contained on this CD. If you like experimental music and electronics with innovative composition, this can be yours, if you don´t like it, probably you will hate it. Favorite tracks: "Unfolding Spaces", "Looking For the Forntiers" and " Chaos". Contact: www.redstream.org