Various E Day 2010 Play:    Mid-Fi   Hi-Fi (Excerpt from track 'Day of E' from Free System Projekt)

CD / 5 tracks / 60.06 mins

This is a limited edition CD where nearly all the music is otherwise unavailable (it is only the Eric Seifert track I am uncertain about). A gentle rhythm and strummed acoustic guitar backed by lush synths make a lovely start to the highly melodic ‘Gaia’ by David Wright and Friends. They are joined by beautiful gently played electric guitar. It’s basically a conventional soft rock instrumental rather than electronic music as we would usually think of it but that doesn’t get in the way of it being an absolute corker! Erik Seifert donates his track ‘Cern’. It starts with gurgling sounds and half heard sampled text. A little melodic motif hangs teasingly in the air then in comes a fizzing sequence, another close on its heals. A lovely shuffling rhythm really gets in its stride. This is such an infectious track. The melodic sequences, lead lines and foot tapping beats are so full of joyous energy it is impossible not to love it. I imagine that E.R.G. will be new to most SMD customers, they certainly are to me! ‘Asturiana’ is a short acoustic guitar lead piece accompanied by Theremin warblings. Sort of pleasant- but also rather odd! Next we get a twenty-four minute beauty from Free System Projekt called ‘Day of E’. Metallic tones shimmer over bubbling effects. Things take a dark, even spooky twist. It all sounds like something from Klaus Schulze’s ‘Cyborg’ actually, until the mood changes with the introduction of soothing flutey synth. The wonderful chilled out feel is banished with the introduction of an absolutely stonking ballsey sequence backed by blissful mellotron. Another, even more bass laden sequence joins the first. The pattern of the pulsations is so complex that it draws you in, resulting in quite a hypnotic effect. Code Indigo’s ‘Eden to Chaos (Corrupted Time Mix)’ is a new version of the ‘TimeCode’ track. Gentle rhythms mix with samples of speech and the most gorgeous wordless female vocal colouring. Then in comes a mellow piano lead line and in complete contrast, scything electric guitar flourishes. The rhythms also seem to become more intense, the guitar really letting rip nearer the end. As with the opener this is also more like a rock instrumental but this time with added oomph! DL

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