Manual, Bajamar - 43m 11s - Music Database

Tracks & Durations

1. Bajamar	1:50
2. Celebration	10:52
3. Reminiscence	10:28
4. September Swell	15:07
5. La Torche	4:50

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Review

In the legion of dream guitar bands that includes Tristeza, Sigur Rós and Mono, Manual maintains a chillier, more classical European strain than his counterparts. He is Danish composer Jonas Munk, and for the last few years he's been putting out airy dreamscapes, culminating in the 2005 release Azure Vista. That CD was a masterpiece of slow-build guitar with haunting crescendos that drifted languidly between Arvo Pärt and Explosions in the Sky. Bajamar is something of a retreat for Manual, away from melody, quiet resolve, and cathartic release and into a world of unremitting tension and edgy discordances. Borrowing the delay and reverb strategies of the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie, he's wed them to the guitar symphonies of Glen Branca. The three central tracks on the album--"Celebration," "Reminiscence," and "September Swell"--don't follow any dramatic arc over their 10-to-15-minute spans, but reside in a drone zone of clanging harmonics and back-sliding brakes hitting metal on metal. It isn't until the final "La Torche" that Manual gives up a fragmentary melody. There's much to be said for Munk's residency in the drone zone, but do we need another sonic Rothko when he has something different to offer? --John Diliberto

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