Rake, by The Sublimator

Rake

by The Sublimator

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1.	Howl! 05:34	buy track
2.	Opa-Locka 06:51	buy track
3.	Exploding Hearts 06:39	buy track
4.	Paper Cranes 04:46	buy track
5.	Shaheed 06:59	buy track
6.	Indiana 07:35	buy track
7.	Yankee Girl Mojo 07:05	buy track
8.	Caravaggio 03:45	buy track
9.	Appliances 07:55	buy track
10.	Hang 04:02	buy track
11.	Note to Self 01:02	buy track

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Rake by The Subliminator
2008 CD

Atlanta's Serson Brannen, veteran spacerocker, started the Subliminator project in '05. After years as a member of Spaceseed he is now a solo act and was immediately signed to Atlanta's Scared and Stickfigure recordings. "Recalibrated" his first release for the label achieved critical acclaim and another, "Rake" (Quick,what's a rake?) is now available. He has collected two of Creative Loafing's Best of Atlanta awards in '06 and '07. Relentless touring (Who else do you know that tours by motorcycle?) has kept him in the public eye and he has been taking the avant-garde/underground scene by storm. Combining vocals and theremins his sound is unique, original, eclectic, hard edged and brings rock n' roll flash to dark sonic art.

"At first listen, the uninitiated may find The Subliminators' Rake completely offputting.

Its melange of sound, hollowedout spoken word delivery and abstract music are absolutely indifferent to the common mosaic of mainstream and non-mainstream music alike. It is experimental and ambient, post-apocalyptic and spacey at the same time.

Making it past "Howl", a zip-zap nod to Ginsberg's poem, offers results in the form of the world flavor mood of "Shaheed", in which ex-Spaceseed vocalist Serson Brannen offers, "But is Jerusalem more sacred than Oklahoma City? / Not to an Okie / Is Mecca more sacred than Atlanta / Not to me, Not to me". Brannen's words intersect calm, soothing Arabic harmonies.

At times abrasive, other times harmonious, Rake is incoherent coherence, navigating mood and sound with one strong voice as narration, spouting philosophy and opinions or stories of bleakness and humanity.

Rake is a mood inducer, be it stressful or warmth. The construction of songs is built on repetition and brief musical ideas - straightforward keyboard patterns and looped vocals. Rake is a church sermon against a backdrop of ghosts in the machine, machines to build the music and a human voice delivered electrically and passionately, like synthesized humanity. The Subliminator is spoken word techno-psychedelia in the midst of the burgeoning Area Code Noise movement of modern music.

While Rake is no bitter pill to swallow, it is an acquired taste, one that is fruitful to those interested in something beyond the well known verse-chorus-verse of genre music. It is futurist poetry laid against compositions made from the scraps of music's elegy. Orwellian in feel, The Subliminator is humanism with an Atari soundtrack." - Southeast Perfomer

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released July 27, 2008

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