{"id":274,"date":"2009-01-20T00:15:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T07:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downthelinezine.com\/archives\/?p=274"},"modified":"2011-02-09T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:35:38","slug":"ancestral-echowunderzeit-by-writ-on-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/ancestral-echowunderzeit-by-writ-on-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Echo\/Wunderzeit! by Writ on Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wow\"WRIT ON WATER
ANCESTRAL ECHO\/WUNDERZEIT!<\/strong>
2008 Cyrus Shade Recordings
Purchase: writonwater.com<\/a>
Review by: Matt Crosslin<\/p>\n

This single disc is a collection of two EPs combined on to one disc.\u00a0 Both EPs contain some songs that were considered for A Wingless King<\/em>, but didn\u2019t quite fit.\u00a0 For lack of a better description, songs were grouped in to an \u201celectric\u201d EP and an \u201cacoustic\u201d EP \u2013 even though those are just general ideas and not strict rules.<\/p>\n

Left over EPs are strange beasts.\u00a0 Usually, when a band says that songs were \u201cconsidered for our album, but didn\u2019t quite fit,\u201d what they really mean is \u201cthese songs aren\u2019t that good, but we spent money on them, so now we want our fans to help us recover those funds.\u201d\u00a0 Not so with these songs.<\/p>\n

Ancestral Echo<\/em> starts off the disc with a nice groove that lets you know right away why these songs deserved to see the light of the day.\u00a0 The intro groove of \u201cThis Kingdom of Tin\u201d gives way in to a spoken word styled vocal delivery that works nice.\u00a0 Then the background chanting kicks in.\u00a0 This song builds and builds, layer upon layer of sound.<\/p>\n

Ever wondered where that little intro sound bite on their website comes from?\u00a0 The answer lies on this CD.\u00a0 The rest of the EP gives you what you have come to expect from Writ on Water.\u00a0 Then 12 seconds of\u2026 somebody opening something\u2026 and then the next EP.<\/p>\n

The second half is Wunderzeit!<\/em> \u2013 an EP of acoustic flavored songs and two remixes.\u00a0 \u201cWondertime\u201d actual appears twice on this part of the CD \u2013 once as a remix and once as an acoustic demo.\u00a0 Both versions are very different from the one you originally heard on A Wingless King<\/em>, so don\u2019t start thinking \u201cfiller.\u201d\u00a0 The acoustic demo really does fit in with the other acoustic-styled songs on the EP.\u00a0 The remixes are electronic-flavored, but placed as book ends on the acoustic songs. The stand out cut on the Wunderzeit!<\/em> EP is hard to pick, but I would go for \u201cSanta Cruz,\u201d a rollicking instrumental that is almost over too soon.<\/p>\n

On further listens, the remixes are very well executed (I need to check out this Travelogue outfit), but still a tad bit out of place.\u00a0 That\u2019s not a big deal to me, but Writ fans that aren\u2019t in to techno might scratch their heads a bit.\u00a0 Overall, another quality entry in to the Writ on Water catalogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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