CD (JNR05)
Release Date: 05/24/05
Track Listing:
- Feline
- Flying Towards The Hole
- The Basal Ganglia Forest
- The Identification Toss
- Fourth Song
- Slowed Down Thumb
- Bagel and Green
(mp3)
- Escape Velocity / The Receptor Is Open
If you enter one hypnagogic state
of bodiless illumination this year it should be Receptor Sight's new album
Cycles and Connections! This album would be a good soundtrack to a neuroscience
textbook / any movie made in Japan / or an isolated sequence of hallucinations
which occur spontaneously while you're walking alone after midnight on 22nd St.
Receptor Sight is the mental construct of the brothers Roffeld: Greg and Steve.
Deriving their name from information reading proteins on the cell surface of the
brain, the northern California duo creates strikingly original prog-influenced/
semi-improv soundscapes from their secluded Mt Shasta studio. Musically the
sound can be reminiscent of everything from Can to Sonic Youth, to early Floyd
and Coil. The instrumentation is diverse, yet focused; some-what minimalist yet
always interesting. Receptor sight has developed as a vehicle to push musical
boundaries while dually serving as a sort-of consciousness exploration. If you
allow it, this album will take you places far beyond the normalcy of reality.
With Cycles and Connections, the groups sophomore effort,
Receptor Sight has come into their own sound; and admirably, not a single
computer or synthesizer was used in the recording of this album. Expanding upon
their influences of psychedelic rock, Receptor Sight has created a sound which
has yet to be truly categorized. Synchronicity is the theme here, a coincidence
of sounds that, once they are played, seem to be meaningfully related. The
energy which permeates the universe will flow from your speakers.
REVIEWS
"Their brand of experimental space rock, made entirely without synths or other electronics, is some of the most consistently engaging of its type. Mysterious and occasionally beautiful stuff."
— Ground and Sky
"More of a soundtrack to nightmares than a cozy electronic ambient piece "Cycles and Connections" fire off synapses and tantalize optic nerves with acid jarring noise manipulations."
— Smother
"Sounds like...well, nothing I've ever heard."
— The Phantom Tollbooth
"Receptor Sight have come up with a creative and interesting listen for those looking to broaden their concept of what music is, how it is performed, and what it may become."
— Verbicide
"Rivals anything by Explosions in the Sky... noise defeats the rock by majority decision."
— 75 or Less
"Meditative instrumental compositions that defy classification... These ever changing compositions have a way of disturbing and comforting simultaneously."
— 1340 Mag
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