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The Edge Of The World

by transmission 13

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millicow This is the music I've always needed to hear but didn't know I needed until today. I have a feeling this album will stick with me for a long time. Favorite track: Imagine a Place.
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Diane Marie Kloba It is a great collection of artists from around the world
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Revival 02:26

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Review: .Trust the Doc ..Music Blog..
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL & LEFTFIELD
I was honoured to be asked by electronic music maestro Tranmission 13 (aka Mozz) (transmission-13.bandcamp.com/album/the-edge-of-the-world) to review his new album. The Edge of the World is his seventh album and finds him collaborating with an accomplished international cast that includes Diane Marie Kloba on vocals, another TTD favourite Guitar PK on Northern Lights, drummer Antonio De Braga on After the rain plus others including New Apostles.

The album opens with the half time beat, crashing guitar chords and dark atmosphere of Imagine A Place. It is adorned with spoken word of a dystopian kind (although the female voice talking about love is perhaps an antidote). I remember louder is a marked contrast, Kloba’s vocals dominating over picking guitar and sustained synth. Northern Lights is more in ambient territory with reverse notes and tasteful lead guitar. The Edge of the World is calm swirly ambience accompanying spoken word that appears to be a recording of a soldier from some past war. The music builds slowly and intensifies as the sounds of distant winds and passing noises bring to mind 23 Skidoo (a comparison I don’t make lightly since they are one of my favourite bands). That slow ambience continues on Wild Atlantic although the bendy guitars and long piercing notes have an air of the Spaghetti Western about them.

After The Rain is quite a departure, more of a chugging Rock-based song mainly built around a funkier take on 12 bar blues. The shift in direction is temporary though and Everything in Colour is, apart from the distressed spoken word, pure ambience and is filled with the most gorgeous contrasts of timbre and texture.

Just when you thought it was safe to assume how the remainder of the album might sound, up pops Driven where spoken word samples are place atop an almost Country-ish vibe. We then get the dark reprise of the opener Imagine A Place, long enigmatic notes and chords bubbling away as the spoken word focuses on naturally beautiful landscapes. Vocorder drifts on the horizon of the mix but remains quiet.

Penultimate track Mother Earth blends slide guitar with a lot of backwards notes and more spoken word samples. The album closes with Revival. Cue an evangelist preacher going ape about his religious fanaticism while the music is dominated by sweet long string chords! It’s a clever clash of soundworlds and a strong ending to an impressive album. If you enjoy inventive ambient soundscapes, samples of spoken word that expose both the frailty and fanaticism of human existence and ideology laced with accomplished musicianship and smart arranging skills, this album is for you.

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released February 15, 2019

Diane Marie Kloba - lyrics and vocals on I Remember Louder.
Guitar PK - Guitar on Northern Lights.
Antonio de Braga - Drums on After the Rain
New Apostles - Lyrics,vocals,wah wah,guitar,cello bass,cor anglais synth,guitar solo,micro korg sound effects on After the Rain.
JOHN 3:16 - Guitar on Wild Atlantic
Equinox - Lyrics and spoken word on Driven
The Sandalwoods - Positive Vibes

Thanks to you all for your contributions and taking time to be part of 'The Edge Of The World'.

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