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Fly Pan Am - 'Fly Pan Am' (1999)

Um disco para entrar na lista dos melhores de todos os tempos. Banda canadense da Constellation Records liderada pelo Roger Teller-Craig, um dos guitarristas do Godspeed You! Black Emperor. O projeto foi formado para executar a idéia original do GY!BE, que era de explorar ao máximo a repetição minimalista e texturas noise de fundo ou invadindo a área e deixando os músicos um pouco para lá. Belas melodias convivem com dissonâncias e atonalismos.



"fly pan am playfully explore the tensions between modernist tropes and pop irreverence without succumbing to cloying irony or mock seriousness. the straight-up metronomic drumming, with its obstinate refusal to add flourishes or fills, establishes a foundation upon which bass and guitar lines weave and shift with a naïve rigour. the music is sometimes wilfully infuriating in its pursuit of an idea (i.e. track 3, which after a lovely series of harmonic changes, culminates in the repetition of a half-tone interval for over 10 minutes, while the digitalia of local electronic/actuelle musician alex st.onge takes over), and challenges the listener to construct an underlying narrative out of sonic collage (i.e. tracks 2 & 4, each in three parts). tape-based experimentation by all the members of the group add drones, transitional accents, and abrupt interruptions to the live band material."