Re: User Pick of the Day #114: Bricolage [dividesbyzero]

WindowAbove — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:00:13 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 07/18/2014 20:00

His most overrated album. Permutation is his best.

User Pick of the Day #114: Bricolage [dividesbyzero]

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:47:22 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/18/2014 19:47

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Bricolage by Amon Tobin

Chart: Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by dividesbyzero
Rank on User's Chart: 8
Year: 1997
Rank on BEA Overall: 2,060
Average Rating: 80/100
Summary Info: The second studio album by the Brazilian electronic musician Amon Tobin and the first to be released under his real name.

dividesbyzero wrote:

Bricolage opens pretty simply. A neatly arranged slowly paced track based around a smooth as fuck jazz baseline. The neat and laid-back nature of stoney-street lets you know that Tobin is into jazz, and that he's just as happy to make use of cool-jazz and smooth jazz as he is to implement the intensity of bop and post-bop, but this hardly prepares you for what is to come. I guess this get classified as drum'n'bass with heavy influences from elsewehre, but with that influence coming from everywhere from nu-jazz to hip-hop to classical, Bricolage doesn't really function as a masterwork of melding together different genres so much as it does as a piece of music with its foundation laid in a plethora of genres but that amounts to something entirely unique form (and far greater than)any of the individual cogs from which it is composed. Easily sliding from a hypnotic cool-jazz melody to an erratic onrush of perfectly placed beats and noises, Bricolage seems to run across the mind of the listener, ravaging every synapse and almost immediately recreating the mental apparatus into something greater, just in time for it to repeat the process with an entirely different approach, and with and entirely different end result on the listener (though with the same lasting impact) as each previous time. At times, relaxing, romantic, energetic, smooth, frantic, organic, distorted, blah blah blah Bricolage is a symphony of paradoxes that not only flow into each perfectly, and with remarkable ease (defying whatever I used to think logic was). But as I said, this isn't an album made singular just for it's ability to make the juxtaposition of what one would think to be harshly opposing or just entirely unrelated elements seem completely natural, but for it's ability to take each of those individual elements and derive from them something peerless; something to which no accurate parallels can be drawn, and in the end, something that is just massive fun to listen to.

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