CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
DAVID BEHRMAN: "On The Other Ocean / Figure In A Clearing" (Lovely):: On Discreet Music and the Fripp collaborations, Eno taught me to appreciate this kind of semi-improvised, semi-electric, semi-minimal trance and/or background music, but I think Behrman, a Soho/California composer who uses computers for chance input and builds his own synthesizers, does it better.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
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DAVID BEHRMAN: "On The Other Ocean / Figure In A Clearing" (Lovely):: On Discreet Music and the Fripp collaborations, Eno taught me to appreciate this kind of semiimprovised, semi-electric, semi-minimal trance and/or background music, but I think Behrman, a Soho/California composer who uses computers for chance input and builds his own synthesizers, does it better. Certainly his textures are more interesting, without any hint of unseemly lushness —or of Glass-type climaxes, for that matter. Steady as she goes. (Address: 463 West Street, NYC 10014.) ARODNEY CROWELL: "Ain't Living Long Like This" (Warner Bros.):: He's smart, he's soulful, he's got that tragic sense of life—yes, folks, Gram Parsons lives on in spirit, right down to Emmylou on harmony. If only the tempos were a little snappier, there might be more than four songs on side two, and chances are that the extra would be as good as the rest. From "California Earthquake": "You're a partner of the devil and we ain't afraid of him/We'll build ourselves another town so you can tear it down again." Talk about inspirational verse. A-