July 15, 2008
LF-011 Transgressions - Ric Tutlo
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Ric Tutlo's "Transgressions" is a unique recording which
showcases many styles of the bass guitar - several of which are rarely,
if ever, attempted - and manages to wrap them all into a succinct,
highly musical album.
The record begins with "Reality in Real
Time," an intelligent, danceable track that features tribal rhythms,
but interestingly, no backbeat. It pulsates like a Trance
tune, hooking in the listener with its hypnotic rhythm, but offering a
much more nuanced, subtle experience than conventional Trance
music. "Transgressions" progresses into spaced-out, cinematic
ambient on "Man Down," which features an echoing vocal sample that
sounds as if it's getting more and more distant from the earth.
"Divine Post" features Tutlo's bass in
yet another context as he demonstrates his proficiency at the
instrument in a jangling, classically influenced solo piece before
moving on to "CCSO," a spooky vocal interlude in which the bass
provides backdrop atmospherics.
"Above a Whisper" is another virtuosic
piece in an airy, jazz-inflected style that builds unexpectedly into a
climax of hypnotic riffing. Tutlo introduces percussion
effects and the fuzz bass on the funky "Not Now," a highly effective,
catchy piece that again demonstrates Tutlo's leanings toward electronic
dance music.
"Mir" - presumably about the Russian
space station, though the word can mean both "Peace" and "World" - is
the most ambient piece on the record - a moody conglomerate of
otherworldly sound effects and bell tones which builds gradually into a
dark ambient soundscape.
"Transgressions" quickly switches gears
for the last time and glides into "Bipolar Eclipse," a contemplative,
reverb-soaked solo bass recording which foreshadows the gloom and
apocalypse of "End of Everything," an appropriately-titled cacophony of
vocals and bass sounds which climaxes in a swell of noisy distortion
that halts all of the other sounds to a silent stillness.
After this blazing apocalypse, Tutlo reintroduces the opening bass line
as if to say to the listener that his instrument and the music it
creates will survive long after everything else is gone.
A true musician's album,
"Transgressions" depicts the possibilities inherent in a single
instrument when one man's creative vision takes force.
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A&R - Justin Robert Wierbonski, Christopher Costabile
Technical - Justin Robert Wierbonski
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