Meisha - The First Lessons in New Era Time: The Universal Orchestra of Pituitary Knowledge Sing Om to the Disturbed Onlookers, Who Were Meisha and Robin Anyway?
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Meisha's music shifts and sways. It moves between the extremes of thick
tone drones to intricate shimmering guitar lines and explores the area
between the two in great depth.
This is their third album, and it follows logically behind the last two.
The dueling arpeggiated guitars that so easily invite comparisons to
Steve Reich seem to have become a method of writing they have become more
comfortable with, as they have less immediacy and a good deal of
patience. The result is expansive songs, which can slowly move from a
pop structured mish mash of picked guitar to a heavily layered collage of
tones.
The intricate side is developed further in a similar way. The bass
carries a good portion of the harmonic and melodic weight, allowing the
guitars more room to step forward and back in their repetition, rhythm,
and melodies. The drones also have a well defined sense of space, which
pursue ideas and explore loops at length without losing sight of the
overall aesthetic in the process.
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