Yeti Rain - Discarnate


Year of Release: 2006
Label: Unicorn Digital
Catalog Number: UNCR 5037
Format: CD
Total Time: 55:47:00

This is not as inscrutable as stumbling upon an actual sasquatch, but it's feral nonetheless. Despite undomesticated traits, this forest-dwelling specimen is better classified as passive than ferocious. In other words, it's relatively tame. Still, it does seem foreboding at times without the claws and teeth to prove it. Regardless, it neither barks nor bites.

For the most part, it's strangely atmospheric avant-garde. The music is slow and sparse; featuring many exotic calls to animals hiding in the brush. Rather than come to the foreground, their quarry is shy and prefers to stick exclusively to the woods. In terms of tools, there is very little technological know-how being leveraged by their tribe. Instead, their impedimenta seems to be purposefully organic and crude.

All the pieces are spontaneously composed, and it's done so with wind synthesizers and drums. Roger Ebner is mostly responsible for these wispy instruments. William Kopecky also frugally infuses a fretless bass.

Coming up with comparisons to this is difficult, but there is one such comparison that the majority will already know. A lot of its icy ambiance parallels those lonelier scenes in the original Superman movie. To paint a visual, think of Christopher Reeve's character standing outside his crystal fortress. Only remove Reeve from the frozen tundra, draw a fully overcast sky, and hand the keys to the palace over to the abominable snowman. If you're familiar with that film's score, your imagination will be all you need to reconstruct this album in your own mind.

To be honest, the music will not appeal to most people as it's too placid for anyone to rock out to it. Not to mention, it's not exactly easy on the ears. It's the kind of din you'd expect to hear as you walk through a museum's corridors. For those who pay attention, they may espy rare and precious archeological finds. For that reason, Discarnate is metaphysical on the whole and will evade people in a fashion that's similar to the elusive bigfoot.

Then again, some will say they've found what's lurking here. Whether that's true or false is anybody's guess, because the album is open to interpretation. Some will say they're mysterious creature while others will swear it is a hoax. Putting wild speculations to rest, these two yetis are actual musicians and not pranksters in monkey suits.


Tracklisting:
The Veiled Daughters Of Sleep (8:06) / Book Of Visions (7:23) / Ebon Ebon Thalud (8:18) / Sea Of Endings (10:02) / The Prophets' Needle (4:39) / Darklight (6:53) / Dreaming In The Teeth Of Forever (10:26)

Musicians:
Roger Ebner - wind synthesizer, wind drum
William Kopecky - fretless bass, wind drum, tanpura

Discography:
Discarnate (2006)
Nest Of Storms (2008)

Genre: Other

Origin US

Added: August 2nd 2009
Reviewer: Joshua "Prawg Dawg" Turner
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Artist website: www.yetirain.com
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Language: english

  

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