{"id":12801,"date":"2015-12-09T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12801"},"modified":"2015-12-09T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:01:54","slug":"cd-shape-shift-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12801","title":{"rendered":"CD: Shape Shift (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"GD30OB2-N.cdr\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: Relapse Records<\/a><\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong> \u00a0October, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong> \u00a09 tracks \/ 56 mins.<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> Zombi (Steve Moore, A.E. Paterra)<\/p>\n

Special Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0 Also available on CD, LP, and cassette tape.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steve Moore (Cub<\/strong><\/a>) and A.E. Paterra\u2019s non-film album draws heavily from the instrumental sounds of Goblin, Tangerine Dream, and Fabio Frizzi (and maybe a little Stomu Yamashta), but each track is distinct in both design and tone, ultimately making Shape Shift<\/strong> feel like a newly discovered prog-rock concept album from the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

Paterra\u2019s drums and Moore\u2019s electric bass showcase their obvious performance skills (the duo\u2019s work in “Total Breakthrough” is especially brilliant), but then there\u2019s the subtleties in other instrumentation, and a crazy fidelity to specific synth nuances that admittedly overtake tracks beyond their natural lengths (such as “Siberia II,” which is heavily cyclical at nearly 15 mins.).<\/p>\n

And yet it all works, as drums, bass, electric guitar, gyrating synths and elliptical motifs induce a trance state, especially the multi-layered “Metaverse” with its unrelenting ostinato and fat, drippy synth chords. There\u2019s no doubt Shape Shift<\/strong> is made for a live if not vinyl experience, featuring a riveting music that needs to be played loud<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2015 Mark R. Hasan. This review originally appeared in the October 2015 issue of Rue Morgue magazine.<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — Composer on IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a>
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Steve Moore (Cub) and A.E. Paterra\u2019s non-film album draws heavily from the instrumental sounds of Goblin, Tangerine Dream, and Fabio Frizzi (and maybe a little Stomu Yamashta), but each track is distinct in both design and tone…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[4129,4130,3947,4131],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3kt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12814,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801\/revisions\/12814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}