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- Date Released: January 1, 2003
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental
- Label: Caciocavallo / Iris
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Artist and musician Robin Storey has been experimenting with found sound and ambient soundscapes since the early 1990s. Rapoon's I Am Not a Foreigner finds him in a highly abstract mode, creating nine ethereal (and yet sometimes quite abrasive) meditations on the idea of foreignness. The album opens with "Breakfast in Mesopotamia," a strange juxtaposition of gentle keyboards à la Brian Eno circa 1975 and twisted samples of Arabic singing -- each in a different key, naturally. "Machine Tongue" is a spacious composition that combines hints of North African drums and eerie ululations to create a sound that invokes images of ghostly dervishes spinning on a dusty plain. Several tracks, notably "Yarsut" and the stunningly beautiful "Dusk Moon," rely heavily on drastically twisted samples of choral singing, and "Horizons Endless" prominently features what sounds like a disgruntled android playing a jawharp. The album's only real disappointment is "Endings in Rain," which is both too long and too devoid of ideas. Overall, though, this is a fine example of what ambient music can be at its best -- lovely and at times even soothing -- but complex and challenging enough to engage the attention for more than a few minutes.
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| 01. |  |
Breakfast in Mesopotamia |
7:36 |
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| 02. | |
Via |
5:06 |
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| 03. | |
Drift |
6:03 |
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| 04. | |
Machine Tongue |
4:41 |
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| 05. | |
Tarsut |
7:41 |
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| 06. | |
Yarsut |
4:38 |
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| 07. | |
Endings in Rain |
10:16 |
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| 08. | |
Horizons Endless |
7:35 |
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| 09. | |
Dusk Moon |
8:56 |
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09 Total Tracks, 62:32 Total Length
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