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LOOP!STATION: LOVE VS. LOVE On Loop! Station's newest CD, Love vs. Love, once again Robin Coomer's voice has a quality that makes other singers seem inhibited. Against Sam Bass's rich cello playing, her singing on this disc shows sureness and power. Not just her voice, but the strange harmonics of the loops, also, despite the sometimes other-worldly quality, somehow have the ability to engage the hearer with the pull of unsuspected emotion. None of this seems merely showy, although it's certain that no other performers could produce music that compares in any way with these unique sounds. The lyrics, all by Robin, are haunting in themselves. Sam Bass typically plays with expressiveness and assurance-- deeply resonant and musically knowledgeable. But it is never really certain who is accompanying whom on this CD, which at times shows the perfectly matched duo's fearlessness in employing dissonance, and even the sound of breathing. As progressive and daring as this new album is-- it could never be background music--the tonalities that are Loop! Station's hallmark are enabled, on two songs on the disc, by the Vaslin composite Stradivarius Cello, which was made in the Eighteenth Century, around 1730. To listen to the tracks and buy this cd click here |
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LOOP!STATION: OBEY YOUR SIGNAL: LOOP THE LOOP It's got a bebop-jazz, plucked-cello backbone holding up a layer of drawn-out bowed notes under the soaring arch of a world class singer. LOOP!STATION uses an RC20 machine to let the performers record their work live onstage and play it back in a repeat pattern. Together Sam Bass and Robin Coomer record, play, record again, and ultimately spin out a wide-ranging and shimmering sonic net. Is it necessary to get such a production-booth level of engineering for a live show? Yes. Cellist Bass' orchestral arrangements are the only suitable accompaniment to Coomer's huge, elastic alto, as muscular and beautiful as the angsty love child of k.d. lang and Suzanne Vega. This girl's voice would eat any lesser music for breakfast. Think the Cocteau Twins with PJ Harvey at the controls. Think halucinatory aural investigations. Think great make-out music... - Hiya Swanhuyser, SF Weekly, March 2006 To listen to the tracks and buy this cd click here |
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LOOP!STATION: BALANCE ON WHAT LOOP!STATION' second release emerged from the studio with a pocketful of potent tunes. And if you dont know who they are yet, LOOP!STATION is your new favorite sonic drug, doled out by the stellar musical duo of Robin Coomer and Sam Bass. One woman, one man, one voice, one cello, multiple layered 'loops' hand tooled and shaped into lovely, cascading, provocative orchestral compositions with an immediate soul-rocking palpability. LOOP!STATION's second release 'balance on what'is as dynamic as it is raw. Coomers voice packs the intensity of a siren wailing atop a speeding vehicle yet paridoxically lures you closer like the true sirens of old, tempting wandering hearts to dash themselves against salty rocks. Sam Bass matches her step for step, bowing his cello near to the breaking point as he mind bogglingly coaxes rich textures and layered themes ranging from chamber classical to rip torn rock out of just one instrument. Like falling in love at first sight with scattering crimson hot embers, LOOP!STATION's music will dazzle you with its firey brilliance - and may just burn you to the core. - Sol Crawford - amnesia To listen to the tracks and buy this cd click here |
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LOOP!STATION: CONVERSATIONS WITH WATER Loop!Station's debut album "Conversations With Water" reflects suttle moods with deeply beautiful layers of music. Most memorable is the penultimate track "Fandango" which perfectly integrates all of Loop!Station's greatest strengths. Complex sound sculptures are created using multiple loops cleverly correographed together. Loop!Station paint a wonderful soundscape which is best experienced live. Cellist Sam Bass also performs with Deadweight and has featured on Mr. Bungle's "California" release on Warner Bros. Records. Robin Coomer has also contributed her vocals to Birdsaw, Eric McFadden and Faun Fables. Loop!Station are currently recording their next album and showcasing their new material to audiences from San Francisco to New York. - Jeffery Decoster, San Francisco Magazine, May 2003 To listen to the tracks and buy this cd click here |
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