{"id":7069,"date":"2013-10-02T01:35:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T05:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2014-03-13T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T20:13:59","slug":"mp3-gravity-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7069","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Gravity (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Good<\/p>\n

Label: Water Tower Music<\/a> \/ Released: September 17, 2013<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 16 tracks \/ (71:44)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: Available as a digital album.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Steven Price<\/p>\n

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With more than a decade of experience as a musician, editor and synth programmer, Steven Price made a striking impression with Attack the Block<\/strong> (2011), a great blend of percussion and aggressive sounds for the quirky yet gory tale of punk kids saving their hood from ape-like space invaders.<\/p>\n

Gravity<\/strong> owes more than a little to Michael Kamen and Orbital\u2019s Event Horizon <\/strong>(1997) where drones and repeated motifs are intertwined like snarling sonic undercurrents. The goal is perhaps to capture the complete disorientation of drifting through a sterile environment with reverberations evoking little glimmers of light, if not glimpses of the safety zones from a drifting space station, but as an album, it\u2019s perhaps a little too dry, if not monochromatic.<\/p>\n

There are brief moments of harmony, and Price makes increasing use of a human voice, but Gravity<\/strong> is a very chilly work whose impressionistic design \u2013 likely inspired by the static-like mush of space sounds recorded by NASA probes (such as Voyager<\/a>) – is geared towards specific imagery. Lacking overt dramatic peaks, the album\u2019s first two-thirds kind of meander through the same swirling clouds before there\u2019s a glint of change, and even as the album comes to a close, the score remains rather fuzzy on specific character resolutions.<\/p>\n

Presumably within the film\u2019s sound mix, Price\u2019s music co-exists with a hyper-real sound design, and the real dramatic punches come from striking imagery, but as a standalone work, the score feels like an isolated sound element \u2013 fascinating to examine with its nuances exposed so starkly, but generally unengaging.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2013 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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