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Four Faradays in a Cage four faradays in a cage

Release date: June 2010 Buy the CD!

Track listing:
[01] September Song (9:27)
[02] Antarctica (9:05)
[03] The Byways (4:17)
[04] Orange Ice (10:20)
[05] Concrete, Glass, Steel (4:37) mp3
[06] Four Faradays in a Cage (16:25)

Personnel:
John MacNeill - keyboards
Mike Marando - bass guitar
John Orsi - drumset, percussion
Don Sullivan - guitar, synth guitar, loops

All songs (c) 2010 Incandescent Sky/it's Twilight Time BMI

story.

This album is a document of a blistering improvisation session held on September 29, 2007 right before the ISky quartet went on hiatus to persue other projects. The band later revisted the raw performances, and the urgency of the tracks begged for them to be released as a proper ISky album. John MacNeill provided a bit of spit and polish in 2009, but the album presents the band in very direct and fine form. The energy of the album could not be fully contained on one disc; it has inspired the group to reform in 2010 to see what happens next.

reviews.

"Incandescent Sky return with a bagful of impressive ideas and daring, and this record explores all of them to powerful effects. This is as meditative and free as any of their records, and may be their best."
-Mike Wood for Music Emissions>>>

"A very strong cloud of dream invades every cut, and the players didn't plan on setting land speed records—save that for Greg Howe and Vitali Kuprij—instead creating landscapes, vistas, and auroral skies. More than once, the listener is struck by the interchangeability of the guitar and keyboards as tones and envelope characteristics fade and twist. Marando's bass is far far away, echoing though vapors and shafts of hazy light while Orsi keeps the pulse and tempo fresh"
-Marc Tucker for Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange>>>

"Third release from Incandescent Sky , Four Faradays in a Cage is their best to date. What I liked about the two previous albums (great production, musicality, performances...) is still there but, to me, the band has focused more on producing music pieces than just improvising. This makes Four Faradays in a Cage an album to be enjoyed from begining to end".
-Marc Roy for Proggnosis>>>

"Together, John MacNeill (keyboards), John Orsi(drumset and percussion), Don Sullivan (guitar and guitar-to-MIDI), and Mike Marando (bass guitar) pull together all of their unique influences for Four Faradays In A Cage to create a sound that sounds familiar at times, but you’re so caught up in what they’re creating that the “strangeness” (if you want to call it that) sounds like the comforts of home, or a time when new musical discoveries were the reason you looked forward to waking up in the morning."
-John Book for This Is Book's Music>>>