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from Vital e-magazine from the Staalplaat office [Number 326 - Week 23/2002]
written by Frans de Waard
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JONATHAN HUGHES - TRILLIUM (CD by The Foundry)
Jonathan Hughes hails from Buffalo, NY and has been doing synthesizer music since the early 80s when he got a synth as a teenager. He also plays bass in a world music group Lotusflower. But no worldy things on his CD for The Foundry. This is his first solo CD, at least under his own name. The ones before were under the Subspace monniker (and unheard by me). All the music here has a 3/4 time signature, which is basically the measure of a waltz or polka. However Hughes does some interesting work. The rhythm parts give the pieces a distinct push, a nice drive. Rhythms, since this is not just a work of heavily floating synths; they are there (I hasten to say: of course, it's The Foundry in combination with Hypnos releasing this), but rhythms play an important role. Obviously an album like this has those deep washes, but Hughes plays also around with more harsher sounds, especially in the first track, which makes this distinctively remote from anything new agey. Nice one. (FdW)
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