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Chicago-based texturalists provide music well-suited to the album's title, as most tempos proceed with the narcotic heaviness of gravity slowly pulling an object down through water. Dominated by keyboards and accented with trumpet, cello, the occasional guitars, and (unusually for the genre) multi-part vocal harmonies, L'Altra's music sounds like a sort of rarefied, astringent jazz, in that its timbres might fit that genre, but they're placed with a sense of rhythm and structure that avoids nearly all of that genre's propulsiveness and development. Instead, static moments tend to slowly mutate into other, different static moments. Think late Talk Talk overlaid with Islands-era King Crimson. Music of a Sinking Occasion is one of those recordings that sound strangely absent in daylight but utterly apt in darkness. |
