Jan 24 2008
Alexis Gideon: Flight of the Liophant
Alexis Gideon + Flight of the Liophant
OTO Rating: 6/10
Audio alchemist Alexis Gideon doesn’t produce shimmering nuggets of ill-begotten gold, but his laboratory shufflings mushroom into symphonies of explosions, clattering, and digital chattering that builds into a sonic crescendo deserving a thoughtful, if schizophrenic, ear. The quirky vignettes set a base layer for hilarious, often immature, and always random flowing that comes out of no where and returns as quickly as it appeared. In his first solo album, Flight of the Liophant, Gideon unleashes a frantic and passionate explosion of sounds obviously plucked from a talented mind, but the delivery is so fractured that the album feels like pages of poetry crafted, shuffled, and rebound. Still intact are superbly concocted blends of organic Americana acoustic, drum and bass, experiential ranting and raving, lo-fi arcade musings, and a grab bag of other sounds perhaps identified better by the performer or those more talented at the isolation of audio than I. I see promise, talent, creativity, and sometimes brilliance, but the packaging is too flighty for it to be durable and stand up to multiple listens. The album shows range but only glimpses of discipline – if he can throw in a bit of precision we might just have a keeper.
Track listing:
01 Maybe It Was May
02 Liophant
03 Your Eyes
04 Waves In Waves
05 Gone Goodbye
06 He She
07 Light
08 Greenroom Tea Time
09 Lastly
10 Wake Up Wake Up
11 Sweet Deream (For My Irish Lass)
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