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In the five years before you, the listener, entered the world of
Mosquito Dream, Plotkin recorded a guitar track, which
he gave to Boxmedia founder Gutzeit. Gutzeit mashed and mangled
the track into five discrete bits. The aforementioned bits were then passed
back and forth between Plotkin and Gutzeit over several years and
subjected to further modification, resulting in six tracks that sound
very, very little like a guitar. What they sound most like is that
droning noise you sometimes hear when you're alone in a wide-open
space, miles from anything that could be predictably relied upon
to make a droning noise -- in all probability, the noise made by the
world turning. The more you listen to Mosquito Dream,
the more you'll notice minor variances in tone, fluctuations in melody
and palpable changes in mood. By the end of your thousandth trip
through the album, you should be able to see into other dimensions
or alter the fabric of space-time with your hair. The tuned-in reader
will wisely surmise that for listeners whose experimental streak can
only just encompass rock bands with a horn section, Mosquito
Dream will be a pointless and unhappy excursion. For those who
appreciate the simple pleasures of sound, it should be more
stimulating and rewarding. |
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