Shame, Despair, Anger
Just over a year ago the Gulf of Mexico had changed, not due to to some natural phenomena such as a hurricane, but the change was caused by man’s hubris — Deep Horizon. C. Reider has composed and performed a response to this disaster with Owning Extinctions which he released on his own label, Vuzh Music. Filled with abstractions of noise and other sound manipulation, Reider successful constructs a musical rebuttal to the atrocities released on the gulf. The six tracks are broken up into various technical and political explanations (and excuses) of the Deep Horizon oil plume each with its own ennui but all comment directly on mankind’s (maybe specifically American) gluttony driven by oil and greed.
[...] May 2011 release of C. Reider’s Owning Extinctions… – Check out that review: Acts of Silence: Shame – Despair – Anger Posted by C. Reider Tags:owning extinctions, quietnoise Categories:reviews & mentions [...]
Thanks for the review David. I hope all is well.
Owning Extinctions is a great release–it’s accessible, but it’s also gripping and with a narrative quality befitting its song titles.
[...] Reider from his collaboration with Desohill, Falling Into Disrepair (2010); his recent solo work, Owning Extinctions (2011); his Crook’d Finger remixes (2000); and the community remix of C. Reider’s work [...]