A Silent Movement, by California Storm

A Silent Movement

by California Storm

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1.	The Dark Machine 01:54	buy track
2.	A Thousand Miles Away From the Sun 01:09	buy track
3.	The Village 02:06	buy track
4.	The Silent Movement 02:08	buy track
5.	Twisted 00:33	buy track
6.	Smooth Rotation on a Midnight Cloud 02:51	buy track
7.	Early Morning Sunlight 01:23	buy track
8.	Large Scale Intruders 03:26	buy track
9.	A Cloudless Sky and an Empty Road 01:36	buy track
10.	A Frozen View 02:48	buy track
11.	Interplanetary Communication 02:26	buy track
12.	The Pleasures of Rain 01:55	buy track
13.	There's a New Place in Ohio 06:57	buy track
14.	In Control 02:41	buy track
15.	Something Strange Happened 01:16	buy track
16.	Life's a Laundromat 01:29	buy track
17.	You and Me and Protons 04:44	buy track
18.	The Strange Shadow Behind the Table 01:56	buy track
19.	Shyness Alert 02:42	buy track
20.	The Shadow and the Ghost 03:30	buy track
21.	Green Lantern 00:54	buy track
22.	The Silver Surface of an Object 02:21	buy track
23.	Slightly More Normal 02:10	buy track
24.	Another Summer Passes By 01:50	buy track
25.	A Star Behind the Scene 02:55	buy track
26.	Unknown Territories 02:15	buy track
27.	The Other Side of Midnight 02:49	buy track
28.	Sugar Bay 01:18	buy track
29.	The Narrow Sequence 03:16	buy track
30.	On the Building Looking at the Moon 00:52	buy track
31.	Capricorn 01:39	buy track
32.	A Beat on Repeat 01:47	buy track
33.	A Circle of Dreams 05:15	buy track

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Near eighty minutes of arpeggiated and atomized 70s-style electronic bliss-out by the mysteriously-coined California Storm. Someone’s fully ingested the more elaborate slabs of classic Teutonic synth-itude and all things Namlookian across thirty-three (!) vignettes that literally recall more astute signifiers across the genre’s rich history than many artists hope to ever cite. So, if variety across the analog spectrum’s your game, drink deep of this beauteous long-player that’s so agog with bright analogics you’ll be a week absorbing it all. “You And Me And Protons” could have been summarily swiped from one of several early 80s Tangerine Dream sides, all bright crystalline sequencers and mellotron wash, while “Large Scale Intruders” reaps the moog-ian whirlwind in a pristine rush of industrialized bottom end that’s blackened with dark streaks of Rhys Fulber/Synaesthesia-esque crusts. That California Storm crosses these disparate barriers and more speaks of an artist unafraid to test the categorical waters. “Life’s A Laundromat” is a beguiling piece of bubbly, effervescent synth-pop whose economy of duration does it a disservice: it could go on for double its length and never wear out its welcome. Ditto the following “A Thousand Miles Away From the Sun”, whose klingklang you wish could be stretched like aural taffy to engulf your ears in sugary overload. But that’s where California Storm’s greatest strength lies, providing the listener with well-sculpted compositional teases that only begs you play the whole damn thing again once it’s over. The record’s innocent charm never wavers one circuit-coerced iota, guaranteeing you’ll weather this particular Storm with barely-controlled glee and a cheshire-cat grin; it’s nigh on irresistible.

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released July 9, 2021

Cover photo: Gary Hart (www.garyhartphotography.com)

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We're here because of Pete Namlook. We were the North American distributor of FAX and decided to pay tribute to him with an 8-CD boxed set entitled Die Welt ist Klang. Since we couldn't release that box on FAX, we started Carpe Sonum.

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