Editorial Reviews
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Music Review
Music: Music of the World: Spain
Script for a Jester's Tear [Import]
Step into My Office, Baby [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
Album Description
Mike Martinez's second effort as Electric Birds flirts with minimal techno as a counterpoint to his lushly overlapping soundscapes, and the result is hypnotic. The opening "Avocet" spontaneously restructures itself mid-track, where another artist would let it loop; "A Green Frost" evokes a dark, frozen forest without resorting to sound-effect cliche; and "Terra Forms" simply slips by in the night, virtually unnoticed but with its presence felt. Martinez has effectively swallowed his influences and mastered his tools, and the result- a focused, deliberate work of almost visual intensity- is a rare pleasure in a climate of half-baked demos. - Rob Geary - XLR8R Magazine - November 2001