White Rainbow – ZOME

When I was living in Jersey and doing most of my record/CD shopping in New York City, you could find this CD anywhere for super cheap. At one point the Academy CD store had cases of them, and you could buy as many copies as you wanted for about ninety-nine cents. Now that it’s out-of-print it’ll cost you about $40 on Amazon to score a new copy. I should’ve bought more than the few I did at the time…

Via AllMusic.com:

White Rainbow recorded a respectable disc of ambient music on ZOME, released about two years (in November 2005) after it was recorded (in October 2003). Comprised of just four tracks, it was at times tangentially related to songs and rock music, and at others drifted into wholly instrumental electronic-dominated territory. The mood on the opening selection, “Gilded Golden Ladies,” is languid and mellow with an electronic sheen, the vocals functioning more as ornamental elements than features on which to focus. The material gets less conventional as the disc progresses, at times skirting the space rock of a band such as 1970s Pink Floyd, but with a more placid, serenely passive ambience in its combination of crystalline reverbed guitar, basic keyboard riffs, and electronic skitters. The closing title cut, which at 20 minutes takes up about half the album, gets into more electronic, intelligent new age-ish territory, with spacious decaying and overlapping tones establishing an atmosphere of consistent but always-slightly-varying calm. Toward the final part, there’s a mild buildup in tension as more parts are added and intersect, and gaps between the repetitions of notes become shorter and shorter.

White Rainbow
ZOME
(States Rights Records)
MediaFire DL Link

01. Gilded Golden Ladies
02. How High A Ridge I Could Not Tell (Song For Eugene Levy)
03. Germany
04. ZOME