Hypnagogue Review: Ambient Red Washes by Larry Kucharz

 Larry Kucharz
 "Ambient Red Washes"
 International Audiochrome
 http://hometown.aol.com/audiochrom/
 
 The word "wash" carries many connotations: an immersion; fluidity; 
 broad brushstrokes of color; cleansing. All of these apply to Larry 
 Kucharz's latest release, "Ambient Red Washes."
 
 These eleven languidly minimal pieces move like wind-stirred water. 
 It is true ambient music, stuff that imposes itself on your mind for 
 a few passing moments before settling in to become and enhance the 
 background. Kucharz's work has a depth that doesn't challenge the 
 listener to discover it; it exists for them, readily seen from the 
 surface, but also offering the opportunity to drill down deeper. It 
 is music you can almost literally look intoâto watch the composer at 
 work as he establishes the interwoven relationships of each synth 
 wave.
 
 "Ambient Red Washes" contains four 10-year-old pieces in addition to 
 the eight new movements. While these sometimes feel thinner than 
 their 2003 counterparts, they meld nicely into the flow to complete 
 the whole. The contrast also shows how Kucharz has evolved as a 
 composer, and how much more richness his later work contains. My one 
 downside on this album is that Kucharz sometimes uses a heavy hand at 
 the end of a piece, cutting it off abruptly rather than allowing it 
 to fade as naturally as it arose.
 
 Overall, "Ambient Red Washes" is time well spent, eyes closed and 
 headphones on, immersed in the pigmentation of Kucharz's composition, 
 emerging soothed, cleansed, and ready to go back again.  John Shanahan
www.braindrizzle.netfirms.com/hypnagogue.html
 
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available from BACKROADS MUSIC          toll free (800) 767-4748 
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also available: all ambient and techno CDâs of Larry Kucharz 
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Armchair DJ Interview  âCLASSICAL TO TECHNO TO CLASSICALâ  Larry Kucharz
interviewed by Brian J. Dillard    complete interview at:
http://www.armchairdj.com/handler.asp?/features/interviews/larry_kucharz.asp 
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Unit 34: assorted tracks
â...techno by a composer rather than a dance producer. The distinction
is that one would move your feet and the other would move your brain. ...â
(thunderfinger)   M station     http://www.mstation.org/beatz.php 
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For Ambientrance Interview with Larry Kucharz goto:   
http://www.spiderbytes.com/ambientrance/intkucharz.htm 
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