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With Form It Threatens Silence

by Kurt Rongey

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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs) Kurt Rongey - one creative half of the fantastic "Underground Railroad" - is one of the most skilled and innovative avantgarde artists I'm currently aware of, and frankly I don't understand at all why he doesn't sell much more copies of this terrific album here. Kurt Rongey is a true master of contemporary counterpoint and polyphony, and casts a huge shadow on all those wannabe-proggers who think they can keep up with him, but just keep on rehashing the same old dull musical phrases. Favorite track: Eroica.
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1.
Eroica 08:19
Waving window Light that turns my eye Looking in at us From your old world Over our heads Sprinkled through the sky On the frost we stand While you climb there Wanderer-hero Still our world is young Run from the limelight As if from another dimension Wanderer-hero Hold to a hope Take your place And stay with us for future days. Out of the darkness Opportunity appears again An idea from something deep inside you. It's worth the pain to see If your course will take its time.
2.
Mechmech A 03:14
Instrumental.
3.
Mechmech B 03:56
Instrumental.
4.
Mechmech C 06:09
Instrumental.
5.
Lie Still 07:52
Lie still It's descending from your tired eye Apprehended underneath That homicidal sky Come out For it pulls at every living cell Throwing rainbows overhead Snowcaps and spinning bell Repent When the golden kingdoms are far away I reflect and I deny The savage words you say
6.
Kunstwolle 23:50
Dealt the hand that quickly lost us the game In the gorge the exile in perfume lost. Seraphim, the light within me. Fantasy, and hidden turnstiles. Help me walk beyond this song. Close the case and snuff the candles. Shelter those I love. Hopefulness encased in longing I heard in the night the sound of unbending sleep Pooled around a stolen meaning Glimmering above the shoreline Mirror image of myself With each day it takes its breath With form it threatens silence End of an age Leaves flowering forth on the branch Shaken by spring Smooth against our frozen hands Full of wine and winding out Blown from the center of the sun Home is thrown away in shortened space Galaxies are moving out across the edge Piece of rock evolved, moved while I watched and learned and followed speed and voracity pummeling the mortar the pent-up things scattered all over the floor slithering into the stillness as the coursing blood fires on through hallways peeling through the morning into daylight through the evening struck, passed, welded out of flashing slivers through the days slamming into weeks through the turning moon spilling slivered flashes on the mass I stopped the standing waves sounded out a beaming smile made the matter glow slid across the hardened prow careened around the edges racing through a year into decades through the pitching generations no time, no need to grasp or clutch your screeching signs

about

Four pieces - a paean to pioneers of science, an instrumental suite celebrating things mechanical, a dirge about crises of faith, and an extended cyberphonic poem about man's impulse to transcend.

Although most of the material was written in an initial creative burst of a few months, this album was difficult to bring to completion. All instrumental parts were played and sequenced on a single keyboard - the Kurzweil K2000, between March and November 1993, with the exception of the slightly earlier track 4. "Kunstwolle" was the only piece to be altered in the ensuing years, subject to a tightening up in 1995. The intention to record the vocal parts for the relevant tracks was hindered for over a decade by life's necessities and inadequate equipment for the task. Finally in spring 2005, while recording vocal tracks for The Underground Railroad's "The Origin of Consciousness." vocals were laid down. Yet another year passed before completion in 2007. Perhaps appropriate to its technological slant, "With Form It Threatens Silence" has never been available on CD, only as a digital download.

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released May 12, 2007

Kurt Rongey: Kurzweil K2000, vocals.
David Basby played keyboards and participated in the composition of Mechmech C. David appears courtesy of Esotericity Music.

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