A Reminiscent Drive - Mercy Street
(Fcom, 1997)
Now
is the time for the survivors. The new century has digested easy techno
music and computerized control. Now, what we need is a total cultural
understanding of all things musical, like having a well developed sense
of mental gymnastics. And that's exactly what Jay Alansky has. He
always has, since the pre-punk and decadent folk music of the Beautiful
Losers and since the "Price of Love", his double album obsessed with
Spector, Rundgren and the Beach Boys.
Afterwards, with the "A
Reminiscent Drive" project, he gave us Balearic House along with
reinvented electronic, brought the British techno scene to its knees
with "Mercy Street" and "Ambrosia" became a classic of lounge and of
its compilations. All this without sampling and without computers, by
appropriating Burt Bacharach, the Residents or R. Gottehrer. Jay
Alansky invented downtempo before its time. In the meantime he wrote
for Julien Clerc, Lio and Jil Caplan and offered the Innocents their
first big hit. Jay Alansky?s inspiration all along came from delving
into that giant jukebox that serves as his brain.
We can not help
but evoke, when listening to a piece like "Un maximum de lumière", all
that prophetic German electronic rock in the style of Can, Neu or Amon
Duul2. When we hear the reverb-inundated voice some may think there is
homage to John Cale or Brian Eno. ? Or those from the nineties? they'll
speak of chill-out or dark ambient.
- Patrick Eudeline
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