This is the twelfth collection of fine audio material spawned from the hip of Integrated Arts. We feel that music devoted entirely to
stimulation of the aural passage promotes or provokes thought, and gets all the merit it deserves. We provide in-depth, entertaining
reviews of any genre of music, and we are armed only with the strategy of getting you to know the music like we do.
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Aquatic Reflections / Rick Gardner
Let's set aside the frivolities, shall we? Let us remind you, there are certain people that do indeed believe that Roswell was more than an
experimental hub for the government, that there was some serious activity hidden there, and we, the general public were kept completely
ignorant of the facts. Well, for all of you that refuse to release the notion that aliens do inhabit the greater sphere of our cosmos, we offer
you Rick Gardner. Picture this: Fast Eddie builds a prototype hydrogen impeller engine, originally geared for his '69 Impala Invicta,
but soon finds out that the patent isscoffed at by the Feds, yet embraced by black suit wearing omnibots, intent on introducing this
engine into a spaceship that Eddie could not even begin to comprehend. They wish to bestow massive amounts of money towards Eddie
and his beneficiaries, and thus, raise suspicions in Eddie's head that something is definitely amiss. After months of negotiations,
financial hurdles,and check-ups by the firm's doctor in house, Eddie finally relinquishes this technology to the seemingly arbitrary
omnibots, only to realize that he has given them the key to astrally connect a vast horizon to Earth in less time than previously possible.
He is asked to attend the inaugural launch of the spaceship, to be performed under the clouds of extreme secrecy. He agrees. Yet again, Eddie is hit with another covert surprise; this one 51; he is the commander of the ship for the virginlaunch. He concedes after being prodded with various tools of shock and horror, and ultimately enters the ship. Leaving family behind is the least of his worries (save death), yet he can't help towonder WHY there is this strange but beautiful music being played in the command vestibule. He is lulled into a somnambulant state of bliss, the strains of Rick Gardner's Rubber Horn pulling his fears from their root and replacing them with a sense of solace that soothes his inner being, soothing him toward the omnibot's prime objective. Fast Eddie has been subjected to the aural hypnotics of Rick Gardner, an earth creature that has collaborated with a plethora of beings from other planets, culminating essentially into this; Aquatic Reflections is a pronounced diversion from the structured phrase envelope we are so used to hearing, yet with the synth washes, overlays, and rambling trumpet riffs, seem to form into a plausible whole, which propels the teeming listener into a state of transcendental acuity. Much like John Hassell and the stranger side of Bill Laswell after the Material days, Rick Gardner opens up ideas which prompted this protracted message in the first place.
First rate.
