Cory Bengtsen's (aka Gushing Cloud) first full length is an album of melodic electronics and guitar, collaborating on tracks with Cheer-Accident's Thymme Jones, Dog Hallucination's D. Petri, and Lovely Little Girls' Alex Perkolup.
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Cory Bengtsen-guitar, bass, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, synthesizer, drums, zither, percussion, sampler, turntable, computer
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Label: IntangibleCat
Catalog ID: CAT-18
Squidco Product Code: 17939
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2013
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack, not sealed
Recorded by Gushing Cloud between 2007 and 2013. Mastered by James Plotkin.
"Gushing Cloud follows up Cory Bengtsen's (aka Gushing Cloud) debut 2010 EP, Prism Shelter, with the strikingly colorful full-length CD Beat Wings In Vain. This album is infinitely more focused, complex, and heady; the result of 3 years of heavy experimentation and honing of creative and technical craft. It's a fascinatingly varied patchwork of colors, ideas, and strong musical character spread over realms of groovy electronic, thoughtful ambient, and noisy/experimental/progressive rock music.
Collaborations are featured throughout the album, with song writing and instrumental additions from Dog Hallucination's D. Petri, Lovely Little Girls' Alex Perkolup, and Cheer-Accident's Thymme Jones and Jeff Libersher. GC places these characteristically flavorful contributions in a uniquely conceived context that harmonizes the electronic and organic elements with genuine style. While some comparisons to the sound and spirituality of forward thinking electronic acts like Boards of Canada or Four Tet might be made, to some people Gushing Cloud's songs may feel more like groovy electronic instrumental step-grandchildren of Brian Eno's non-ambient albums of the 70's or the first four classic Faust albums. Kumo/Bengtsen playing saxophone in the avant-art-rock group Lovely Little Girls has perhaps rubbed off a bit onto parts of the album, as has being in the experimental electronic quartet Amalgamated and occasionally playing with the Chicago experi-prog-rock mainstays Cheer-Accident. Also spending 9 years in the guitar-heavy experimental-dreamy-art-noise-rock band Rebekah's Tape shows in many of the guitar parts. Influences are inevitable, and can of course be discerned, but there is an organic earnestness of personality in this music that is difficult to pigeonhole.
Melodies on guitar, saxophone (alto, tenor, and baritone), synth, piano, and trumpet are engaging and hooky, yet off kilter with subliminals. Multi-tracked synthesizers, various weird laptop manipulations, bass guitar, poly-rhythmic drums, odd-ball samples, funk grooves, noisy guitar, and zither are utilized in the earthy-technological infrastructures jutting up around and sprawling out beneath. Beat Wings In Vain is rife with complexities, and will bear innumerable listenings for audio scrupulizers, while holding a good deal more than sufficient emotional, festive, groovy content to fulfill the lusts of enthused weirdo dance floor inhabitants or thoughtful household head-nodders."-Intangible Cat
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• Show Bio for Cory Bengtsen Cory Bengtsen is sound artist performing on keyboards, saxophone, turntables, &c. He is know for the groups Amalgamated, Rebekah's Tape, Lovely Little Girls, and Cheer Accident. ^ Hide Bio for Cory Bengtsen
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Track Listing:
1. Matching Our Yonders 7:10
2. Witness 6:08
3. Prison Swelter 3:49
4. Beat Wings In Vain 6:09
5. Turnflew 4:57
6. Not To Dream 3:22
7. Return To Hunger 6:16
8. Gesturing Stream 11:28
9. Dirt Beam 5:25
Electro-Acoustic
Electronica
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