taylor deupree will make you happy (hopefully)

[david turgeon <david.t@xxxxxxxx>]

mmmm...  the newest taylor deupree _occur_ (12k) certainly makes me 
happy.  it has more or less the same feel as two albums i very much like, 
hecker's _[ot] xackpy breakpoint_ & shirt trax' _good news about space_ 
(which i've previously rambled about here & elsewhere, but what can i do, 
they are very singular...) except with "improved" (or at least different) 
production methods.

if shirt trax might seem too "simple" & hecker too "flat", _occur_ shows 
deupree's precision in coining just the right sound so it feels like it's 
always belonged there, all this with plenty of depth, inhabiting a 
surprisingly calm atmosphere.  while a lot of so-called "complex" 
microsound improv sounds to me, ironically enough, like ambient music, 
_occur_ is inversely, an "ambient"-like recording which gets one's 
attention without effort.

yet, it could have probably gotten more complex (hecker) or exhaustive 
(shirt trax).  the abstraction & lack of predictability is still what gets 
me most interested in projects like these.  though needless to say, 
abstraction & sound research (yes!  microsound!) are probably better heard 
combined, as is the case with this CD...  so i won't complain too hard.  :)

all in all, a nice & all-too-rare attempt to push the microsound edge 
towards new fields.  i'm not so sure i'll be as thrilled by deupree's next 
album (a "polar opposite" to _occur_ described as "a work of intense 
repetition") but then again, deupree doesn't seem to me like a composer who 
will shy away at sounding "off" every so often...  even his "club" music 
may never sound groundbreaking, but neither is it ever generic...

oh, & the cover design is damn slick!

~ david