{"product_id":"nico-georis-a-rainbow-in-curved-air","title":"Nico Georis - A Rainbow In Curved Air","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“It was never supposed to happen. No one was supposed to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereimagine Terry Riley’s A Rainbow In Curved Air—a piece of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emusic that, until now, has existed in its own class of expression. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo one was supposed to scale the perilous heights of the citadel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand come back with another document of the strange festival \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escenes within. With the release of Nico Georis’s A Rainbow In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCurved Air it’s clear now that this piece of music is a place that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyou can go to, a kind of astral sanctum that can be visited again \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand again so long as you know the mysterious paths that lead to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Doing away with the production tricks used on Riley’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoriginal recording (just intonation, mirror image delay, half-speed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etracking of all lead parts) Nico Georis confronts the central seven \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etime theme with a new transparency that gradually complexifies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einto astonishing Persian carpet displays of patterned musical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eawareness. This is music of the plenum and not the void: it is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eteeming with forms that behave in ways that recall descriptions \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof elaborately jeweled DMT hyperspace; sonic shapes that are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edriven by the pure uplift and force of infinite, unconstrained \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eautotransformation. In this way it is similar to the original but the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epace is way less manic, way more listenable as it rides forward \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon a calm surge of dazzling zero point energy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The three other songs on the record are Georis originals. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Vapor” is a moment of twilight abstraction, a plant music duet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat features Nico playing along with the plaintive washes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof sound produced by a cannabis plant connected to a Plant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWave device. This song was composed spontaneously as it was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebroadcast live over Nico’s Big Sur based pirate channel, Milky \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWay Radio. Side B contains two remarkable songs, “Hot Slots” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand “777”, that are built mostly out of samples of slot machine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esounds. They are both lush holograms of hallucinated beauty \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand convey something about the spirit of luck, abundance and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epossibility.” —Matt Baldwin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eAstral surrealism from Big Sur artist centered around reinterpretation of an experimental classic. Includes rainbow glasses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"South Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":64323009216889,"sku":null,"price":10.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/1463\/6153\/files\/unnamed4_d8c38544-439d-4b1a-aa3b-938fb615b530.jpg?v=1787904485","url":"https:\/\/vinyl-relic.com\/products\/nico-georis-a-rainbow-in-curved-air","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}