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Electronica
Release Date: 05/08/2007
It's been a constant in the history of
Tarwater --
Bernd Jestram and
Ronald Lippok are never satisfied, even with all the world of music that's been produced in over a century of recorded sound.
Spider Smile, an invisibly conceptual album that deals with perceptions of America, sounds like an attempt to put into a
pop context some of the most inconceivable music that's ever been produced. Whether it's
electronic or electric or acoustic (or, usually, a mixture of all three),
instrumental or vocal (here the boundaries are more distinct),
Spider Smile is a cipher of bewitching sounds.
"Witch Park" has an array of shakers, sequencers, and what sounds like a harmonica squealing away in a manner that sounds halfway between the sort of
trance Robert Leiner used to produce and that of the Balinese
gamelan orchestras.
Tarwater's music is informed by the
blues of America, the
folk music of Africa, the
electronic mood music of
Cluster.
~John Bush, All Music Guide
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