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The PiNG presents Planet Of The Loops



THE AMBiENT PiNG   http://www.theambientping.com
Every Tuesday Night @ The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen St. West (At the corner of Gladstone/Dufferin St.)
Doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30 - PayWhatYouCan
http://www.gladstonehotel.com/MapQuest%20Maps%20map.htm
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This Tuesday November 23rd - Planet Of The Loops

Andrew Aldridge's (now) quarterly series Planet Of The Loops
lands at the PiNG for another evening of loop-based
improvisations which will surely have your head spinning.
This flight will be crewed by the members of Hamilton-based
low frequency pilot, who will be accompanied by their new
drummer and a complement of delay devices. Take us out #1...
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/4/lowfrequencypilot.htm
http://www.geocities.com/energymadeaudible/planet.html

Between Sets CD - "November Suite" by Robert Fripp
It's the perfect time of year to play this soundscape CD,
recorded live at Green Park Station, a converted railway station
in Bath, UK, on a very cold afternoon on November 21st 1996.
http://www.disciplineglobalmobile.com/index.htm
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Coming Tuesday November 30th - Nilan Perera and Friends
http://www.sarahpeebles.net/cinn_bio_perera.htm

Between Sets CD - "Fluidities" by Jonathan Hughes (Foundry)
http://foundrysite.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=29 
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rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews

"Land of the Blind" by The Circular Ruins 

The music of The Circular Ruins has always struck me as
lush, as very full. An intricately detailed canvas of sound art
that captures a sense of both time and place. With the release
of "Land of the Blind", The Circular Ruins have collected eight
stunning pieces that continue to engage & delight in the same manner.

The disc opens with "A Storm of Secondary Things". Delicate
sweeping pads loop and swirl, while complex percussive
patterns play underneath. Shimmering melodies unfold as
the piece progresses. A beautiful introduction to the disc.

"Holiday in Reality" is built around fluttering patterns of sound,
a series of squelchy electronic patterns rising and falling
throughout. A sense of movement, of journey permeates
throughout the track, a lovely feeling of travel. Wonderful.

"Thought is False Happiness" builds upon a laticework of
pads and waves, intricate folds weaving and gaining in
complexity as time passes. A stunning piece.

Track four, "Anamnesis", is a much more subtle piece,
a minimal sense of movement that uses silences to accent
the tones throughout. Patches of dialogue pass through 
like fragments from half forgotten dreams. A fantastic track
that I find myself drawn to again and again.

"The Abyss of Proof" is an ominous track, a dark foreboding
introduction leading into a tense claustrophobic environment.
Be careful when you stare into the abyss, it has a way
of staring back at you...

"Interior Distance" features a repeated arpegio overtop an
organic backdrop of landscape sounds. Delicate and simple,
yet somehow vaguely threatening. A slow and steady journey
through the familiar territory of reason to the darker lands of delirium.

"Standing in Violent Golds" is a more dense piece, dark matter
and alien elements clashing, conflicted. There are small pieces 
of beauty that stand in contrast to the controlled chaos at play
here, but they serve only as small reminders of order, in effect
bringing the confusion more into focus.

Disc closer "A Distant Assembly" is an epic track that utilizes
oblique motion to anchor simple melody lines, slow waves of
sound rising and falling like tides. Tones gain in strength, finding
order and reason, gradually melting into other forms, taking on
other shapes and meaning. A hundred vistas pass by during the
course of it's length, each another glimpse of alien worlds, different
spaces, a thousand more just beyond reach. And then it is done,
an afterimage reflected in our mind's eye the only reminder 
of what we've seen.

Without doubt, "The Land of the Blind" lives up to and surpasses
all of my expectations with regards to The Circular Ruins. A truly
wonderful disc featuring a truly wonderful collection of music,
I recommend it wholeheartedly to fans of the ambient genre
in all of it's forms, as well as to all those who enjoy the discovery
of inner journeys.

rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com

http://www.pingthings.com = ambient + electronic + chill things

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for updates on *all* the latest releases on sale at ping things
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THE AMBiENT PiNG presents live performances by Toronto's
finest ambient, chillout and experimental music artists plus
performers from across the continent, every Tuesday evening
at the Ballroom in the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West
at Gladstone/Dufferin St. - Both the Queen Streetcar and the
Dufferin Bus stop right at the hotel. http://www.gladstonehotel.com
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Please forward this e-mail to any friends who may be interested
in live ambient, chillout and experimental music performances