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Strings slowly begin to creep in like "JAWS". At first it feels as if the two sounds might be competing, but then the strings start hitting more like the suspenseful score of an Alfred Hitchcock film as the trumpet comes blaring through. This is lively. This is a dawning of a New Year. It slowly begins to quiet down now. We go into "Hypnotized by Chaos" and feel this walking bass line with the trumpet sort of playing along and yet also sort of playing its own song. The bass continues with these playful notes while the trumpet can sound like a balloon losing air or a tire going flat perhaps.
A high pitched sound like a voice comes through now, though it might be strings, as that trumpet deflating sound continues. This takes us into deep throat singing sounds now combined with higher pitched squeals. It feels as if we're summoning a demon or perhaps some creature from "Lord of the Rings" as this takes us to new depths but also can just feel like a battle. This sound really can create so many visuals while listening to it that I'd love to see someone put "Hypnotized by Chaos" into a video with such ideas.
Into the third song now and the strings begin to slowly cut back through, one piece at a time. This can feel like the aftermath of that great battle as the bass mixes it up with the trumpet blares. This builds back to where it has that suspense and almost terror like "JAWS" again. This can begin to feel a little bit like jazz and then it dives off into a back and forth. A bass line then comes out which makes it feel as if we are sneaking around while drops of glass or crystals hit the ground around us.
I particularly enjoy the title "Daddy Said He Hates the Music" and it begins with voices and sounds which you might hear in a somewhat quiet jungle. The sound begins to move around as it feels like it's squeaking. This is the softest sound of these songs so far, but then the bass line picks up as if we're moving faster through the jungle. Vocals come out in a very primal way and this just feels like we're in the middle of a film set in the jungle and we have to try our best to make it out alive. Banging also comes out from the bow of the bass but it can sound like a drum.
Sharper scratches now take us into "Listening to Stone" and in some ways it does sound like we're scraping across the stone as well. This can almost become harsh in the scraping. I'm not sure why, but I'm reminded of when I was a child (too young to know better) and I was playing in the driveway and just dropped to my knees and slid, bleedng profusely in the process. The bass line is also back in here, perhaps to comfort me and my knees. As it can get almost like a duck call with the trumpet, the bass can come in like The Beats or just someone in that cigarette-filled room under a spotlight reading poetry.
The ninth song brings in this trumpet which makes me think of bull fighting, like a matador, and then the bass comes back in like "JAWS" again. This is the sound of the strings, sometimes just the movement on them, mixed with that sporatic and chaotic way the trumpet can blow out notes. This sound can feel both like we are going up a flight of stairs and falling down a flight of stairs at the same time. It is that controlled chaos, as it times it can feel structured and at times it can just feel random. The hitting of the bows now can sound like knocking. This intensifies and by the end of this track you will feel like someone wants to get in.
Onto the final track and we end how we began: bass strings cutting through like "JAWS", one at a time. You can begin to feel the bass line climb and drop off now, as if in a jazz way but again we're staying in that experimental realm. The trumpet comes through and adds to this jazz feeling. This all becomes silent and then comes back with sort of vocals into this muted fight between the trumpet and strings. The trumpet sounds like Charlie Brown's parents while the stirngs are hitting high and sharp.
We once again go into the quiet and then return with the sound of little trumpet blares. The trumpet can sound like a rip or meow as the notes come out and then the bass line returns in that jazz way that it does. Both sounds begin working together, like two wizards using their good magic to fight off the evil. The bass drops heavy and even if it's not as grand as the whole world ending, it can at least feel as if the battle has been won.
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