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Effortless Battle
Ian Nagoski →24 listeners69 plays
ambientnoiseprogressiveusaprogressive electronic
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"There's a whole world of organic warmth, buzzing activity, and ethereal beauty in Effortless Battle, one must simply be willing to immerse themselves deep enough into the music to experience it fully. Those who do will be well rewarded." - Adam Strohm, Fakejazz.com ""...this record is a damnably good effort. There's a single 31-minute drone piece which kicks off the CD and is, frankly, terrifyingly awesome ... 'Effortless Battle' starts off with a harmless 'fluttering' drone, as though the listener's lower body half is caressed by butterfly wings, this long drone gradually seeps out a this resinous eminence like tar that insinuates itself into your core. Rather than experiencing a sound which makes itself heard, its more like being invaded by unseen germs or infections ... After some 5-6 minute, Nagoski sets into some serious throbbing as his electronic penis begins to swell and grow in stature in size. He brings in some slightly troubling chords on top of the pulsing madness, generating a dangerous drone ... by the 15 minutes mark, the sound is becoming lethal. More layers are fed in by a team of mad scientists; the slow and deliberate pace of it becomes numbing, and the comforting tonal center which we started out with has vanished. You get that sick, vertiginous feeling like when you're far too drunk or you smoked too many cigarettes, and the floor is just dropping away from you. A shimmering power-pack of transcendental beauty is this 'Effortless Battle," a major minimo
