Ramda, by Mice Parade

Ramda

by Mice Parade

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Eddie Knuckles Cross cultural influences and beautiful, interesting songwriting, with odd time signatures used effectively. A delight to the auditory senses.

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1.	Ramda Flies With Magic Eyes 06:45	buy track
2.	Distant 04:09	buy track
3.	Galileo 06:15	buy track
4.	The Good Red Road 04:53	buy track
5.	Warpshire 04:38	buy track
6.	Gulliver's Travels 04:04	buy track
7.	The Lonely Lounge Piano Player's Lost in His Little World 08:30	buy track
8.	The One to Look for 05:30	buy track
9.	[attempt] 01:56	buy track
10.	More Music for Mallets,Voices & Organs 03:15	buy track
11.	Logic Parts 1&2 07:12	buy track
12.	Headphoneland in the School of Old 04:11	buy track
13.	Imagine Winooski 03:35	buy track
14.	Ramda's Untriumphant Return 00:52	buy track
15.	Logic Part 3 07:58	buy track

about

The solo project of New York’s Adam Pierce, who also drums in The Dylan Group (see 12FAT011) and runs the Bubble Core label, Mice Parade evidences a boldly inventive and highly individual take on post-rock / electronica imagineering.

Following up last year’s much-lauded Bubble Core album, ‘The True Meaning Of BoddleyBaye’, ‘Ramda’ forges a distinctive, immersive audio space of skittering, piled-up percussion and atmospheric, hook-laden melodics.

Again, bereft of samples or sequences, ‘Ramda’ is played live with endless multi-track overdubs. In an attempt to usher in some improvisation into a studio situation where one person is playing all the instruments, each track, as well as each mix, was recorded in just one take - no going back and fixing mistakes, no choosing the best from multiple versions.

Flowing together beautifully, the album’s 15 tracks continue to blur genres and mesmerize the listener with a series of glistening, interlocking melodic hooks and grooves. Shifting moods and drifting from the densely percussive to the sparse and fragile, phat / crisp drums, bass, picked / processed guitars, piano, vibes, xylophone and keyboards are carefully layered together in a bustling, bristling mix like some aural equivalent of tapestry or the intricate, architectural installation work of artist Jessica Stockholder.

Complex, morphous structures are dominated by some gorgeously orchestrated, deep melodic hooks and shimmering textures, occassionally displaying a seriously cinematic depth and quality (see especially the weightless, dreamlike ‘Distant’ or ‘Galileo’). Beneath these lies an ultra-detailed, at times dubwise, studio trickery - continuously breaking down and reconstructing themselves, tracks are riddled with cuts, false-turns and odd jumps, twists, drop-outs, and all manner of brief, perplexing sonic events. What remains to the fore, however, is the funky, organic and totally coherent nature of the album.

A stunning example of one-man audio construction, ‘Ramda’ lies close to the now forgotten solo instrumental masterpieces of producers like Kurt Ralske (Ultra Vivid Scene) and Joe Cassidy (Butterfly Child), whilst comparing favourably to more recent projects like Four Tet (again, recall that this is all played live - no samples!).

Expanding on the efforts of beat-scapers like Tortoise, Mice Parade is the sound of US post-rock leaving the drone behind, getting in on the groove and breaking out in an infectious pop rush and gush: tingling, light-headed and sublime. A truly beautiful, inventive album.

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released September 19, 1999

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Mice Parade Clermont, New York

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