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How Big Is Your World? Ken Seeno – “Spirit Of 77″

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This year, Ken Seeno played on Ponytail’s Do Whatever You Want All The Time–the group’s saddest and best and probably last record. He also put out two excellent tapes: Invisible Surfer On An Invisible Wave and Open Window. The both of them mix cheeseball synth work with patient, Terry Riley-like meditative minimalism. Not too sophisticated–like not even reaching for the pleasant, somber grooves of komische–they hover around in this weird awesome netherworld between like, 80s movie make-out music and what I wanted all those Ashra releases I read about to sound like. So basically, both tapes are perfect. In the video above, Seeno performs his song “Spirt of 77″ from Open Window which seems like it must be a reference to Ashra’s “77 Slightly Delayed” only this has the potential to emotionally destroy with gut-level guitar emoting. There are interviews where Seeno praises the Allman Brothers and Fleetwood Mac. This also makes sense and is probably where this song’s heart comes from.

Written by Brandon

June 22nd, 2011 at 2:50 pm

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