Artist: White Rainbow (Portland, OR)
Album: Prism of Eternal Now
Label: Kranky Records (Chicago, IL)
Sounds Like: Boards of Canada, Charlemagne Palestine, Brian Eno, Can
White Rainbow is just one man (Adam Forkner) dictating through his atmospheric music what it feels like to float around in space, to melt time and to dream with your eyes open.
The CD starts off with the most accessible track which had me darting to my "Love" button on Last.FM. The first sounds come from the tribal drums which closely resemble Can's "Halleluhwah". After that White Rainbow introduces the obvious Boards of Canada influence with a repeating, warm, synthesized bass-line which has no trouble sinking into your senses. Beautifully next you find the El Guincho like echoing and overlapping vocal batter.
The reason I chose Can over anyone else in the "Sounds Like" category is not only because of the drums but because of the experimental guitar lines as well. The, what sounds like, completely improvised wailing guitar solos over the extremely layered and repeating background noises creates a sense of leadership throughout the calming chaos.
Track 5, "April 25 11:14 PM", sounds like a cold and slow creation of something warm and beautiful. The minimalistic ambiance immediately brings Eno and Charlemagne to mind.
The whole album is great to make you wonder. It can easily be used as music to drift off to or sleep to or to enter the bizarre world to. I give this album my recommendation and remember kids; feed your head...
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