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For countless centuries, vocalist & violinist Thoth and bassist & percussionist Rhan have roamed the environs of space, sending musical reports back to earthbound beings. They have now techno-fitted this vehicle, their most sophisticated craft, which enables them to reach even more exotic worlds.
Chronicling their most recent cosmic sonic journeys, this digital log finds Thoth (of the Oscar-winning documentary "THOTH") warping his violin and stretching his voice into innumerable galactic tongues to record their adventures, while Rhan translates the rhythmic pulses of comets’ echoes into the engines’ percussive beat to steer their craft. Together, the nomadic duo takes you soaring on their virtual flying carpet of sound.
From the beginnings of the universe to a future not yet fully imagined, our Space Gypsies will transport you past drifting cosmic debris, through urban space stations and beyond the farthest blue star.
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OVERTURE
REVIEW
6/7/2007
Space-Time Continuum
I'm With the Band - By Sarah Stachura
Who knew that Luzerne County contained an alternate universe? Ambient duo Rhan Wilson & Thoth used Sweet Valley as a launch pad for its debut CD, Space Gypsies. The 12-track CD was recorded in California, but arranged, edited, and assembled at Bethel Hill Studios. The album contains soaring violins, tribal drumbeats, chimes, birdcalls, haunting vocals, and, on track 5 ("Adrift in Space Debris"), the sound of a percolator.
Good to the last cosmic drop? It's a matter of taste, for sure.
These two have some heavy credentials under their belts (or in vocalist/violinist Thoth's case, gold-sequined loincloths). Rhan Wilson (percussion, guitars) is a woodworker, landscaper, and graphic designer. Thoth is the star of a 2002 Oscar-winning documentary short called (what else?) Thoth, and has appeared on The Tonight Show and The View.
The album is a concept of sorts: Thoth and Wilson have devised their own creation theory for anyone who cares to listen. On tracks like "Mir Genesis," Thoth accompanies Wilson and the music with a spoken-word commentary ("Everything starts with darkness/There is nothing but darkness."). Stuff like "2GSS-77" (growling whispers half in gibberish, half in English) might be a little deep for some of us down here on murky old Earth. However, Thoth's violin is pretty damn magical. He manages to conjure up images of harems (track 3 is called "Ringing Planet Bellidanz," get it?), classical composers, and European folk dancers all at once.
The crown jewel of Space Gypsies is a bouncing piece called "Collapse of a Blue Star." Now, I don't know about the reaction of light and gases, but that song could have the stuffiest of astronomers grooving along a black hole's edge.
According to a national press release, Space Gypsies is 10 earth years in the making. Those who enjoy traveling at the speed of light can pick up a copy at www.cdbaby.com/all/wilsonr.
OFFICIAL NATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
OSCAR STAR THOTH AND STAGE MASTER RHAN RELEASE “SPACE GYPSIES” CD
Effects-filled sonic space journey now available nationally
Violinist-vocalist Thoth (Tonight Show, The View), who first came to national attention in 2002 in an Oscar-winning documentary (“Thoth," Sarah Kernochan, Best Documentary Short) and Rhan, legendary percussionist and stage performer (Memorial for Jerry Garcia, Haunted by Waters, Land of the Blind), proudly present their ambient cosmic-music debut, “Space Gypsies.”
Ten years in the making, "Space Gypsies", features material recorded, mixed and entrancified over a decade’s time, from the former duo’s touring days of the nineties to studio stereophonic spices only available now.
Intended to take listeners on a gentle, curving ride through the spaces between the cells of the brain and the planets of the outer reaches, “Space Gypsies” begins with the creation of the universe in the first track, "Mir Genesis," all the way through to "Happy Little Number," a paean to a brighter future, as its final sound.
What does it sound like? Let’s put it this way: between Thoth warping his violin and stretching his voice into innumerable tongues and Rhan translating the rhythmic pulses into a percussive beat, the duo takes you soaring on a virtual flying carpet of sound.
"Space Gypsies" is available online at CDBaby (www.cdbaby.com/all/wilsonr), as well as digital distrib sites, iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, AudioLunchbox, Liquid Digital Media, and GreatIndieMusic.
"Space Gypsies" info:
rhanw@rhanwilson.com,
Thoth background: www.myspace.com/skthoth
Rhan background (including info on Rhan’s radio-splash CD’s "An Altared Christmas" and "The Return of An Altared Christmas:" www.rhanwilson.com
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