Mar 5, 2013 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
“The suffused and vaguely crepuscolar opening on gentle piano strokes and thin chinks of the initial “Velar” and the charmingly rustic twining of string saw, warm deep tones, accordion and banjo flowerheads, a dainty percussive nixer on the following...
Oct 31, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
“Two old hands, post-rock deconstructor Adam Trainer and ambient guru Matt Rosner, have come together to form something new as Gilded. Whilst clearly not setting out to reinvent the wheel of experimental music, the merging of their two sympathetic skill sets –...
Oct 12, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
I’m no geologist, but thanks to a bit of search-engine scholarship I can now tell you that a “terrane” is a land-mass phenomenon where a tectonic plate breaks off and fuses with another, leaving a fault-line where the two bits of Earth-crust have “sutured.” The...
Oct 12, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
Piano. Bowed metal. Percussion. Repetition. Space. Texture… These are our basic ingredients; our oil, salt, pepper, spice, flour, water. We can draw on one tradition, or another – personal, geographic, familial. Our tools, our skillets, griddles, pans; these are our...
Oct 12, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
Sometimes I’m unsure exactly where to start with writing about an album. On other occasions, the band/musicians make things if not exactly easy then perhaps at least partially apparent, signposting their music through identifiable types of genre and style, and...
Sep 21, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
“Homophones, hey? Fun stuff. A pane you can see through, but you won’t if you can’t see pain through. Lean on a cane if you’re not able, but if you’re Abel, don’t lean on Cain. Terrain is anything you can stand on, but terrane is different from anything else...
