Take the 'sonic geography' inhabited in such pieces as Aztalan or the The Colorado Terrain Investigation. Piece de resistance is the full, over 22 minute, version of Tape Death Cut, from the split LP with Hands To. If you are young, but willing to seek out some recent history, this is a place to start. Final belongs that particular wave of guitar players that play the guitar, but if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't know. Usually the six string sound is well hidde beneath a bath of samples and sound effects.
Slowly melodies evolve, take shape and disappear.
More then others in this area, Finals guitars and basses are actually to be heard on this one. Most of the sounds on this new release were generated in real-time using conbtrol voltages derived from pitch material from other instruments. The ghosts of composers and bands notyetdead dance jigs in Cricklewood, and despite separate tracks, this collection comes across as an almost symphonic piece. This slides into a semi-eastern, but almost certainly extraterrestial gong being pounded by insistent metallic flies. Footing now lost, I slip further into the oscillators, into my stirred memories of Morton Subotnick's 'Wild Bull','Silver Apples Of The Moon' and '4 Butterflies' of years ago.