HR168 - Mitch Rushton - Trans-Siberian - C46 — 1989
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SIDE ONE:
Part one: MOSCOW AND SUBURBS Part two: MOSCOW TO NOVOSIBIRSK Part three: NOVOSIBIRSK TO IRKUTSK |
SIDE TWO:
Part Four: LAKE BAIKAL Part five: IRKUTSK TO KHABAROVSK Part six: KHABAROVSK TO VLADIVOSTOK Part seven: VLADIVOSTOK AND THE SEA OF JAPAN |
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
Trans-Siberian is Mitch Rushton’s musical interpretation of the nearly six-thousand mile Trans-Siberian Railway journey from Moscow to Vladivostok. The set consists of seven tracks, representing varying points on the journey. And that’s what I had in mind as I experienced this album.
After a soothing space-symphonic introduction, the train begins to pick up speed with a steady rhythmic pattern and pleasantly narcotic melody. By the Novosibirsk to Irkutsk stretch the train is moving at full gallop, with a Hi Ho Silver! Lone Ranger in space groove. Passing Lake Baikal, we ease into a more floating ambient-soundscape segment. And then the pace picks up again, with Irkutsk to Khabarovsk laying down an intensely kinetic rhythm over which spacey waves and effects drift. And on we go. Similar to the Emmellar duo project with Mark Lydon that preceded this tape in the Harsh Reality catalog (HR167), Rushton excels at thematic development and kept me dreamily engaged throughout.
Trans-Siberian is Mitch Rushton’s musical interpretation of the nearly six-thousand mile Trans-Siberian Railway journey from Moscow to Vladivostok. The set consists of seven tracks, representing varying points on the journey. And that’s what I had in mind as I experienced this album.
After a soothing space-symphonic introduction, the train begins to pick up speed with a steady rhythmic pattern and pleasantly narcotic melody. By the Novosibirsk to Irkutsk stretch the train is moving at full gallop, with a Hi Ho Silver! Lone Ranger in space groove. Passing Lake Baikal, we ease into a more floating ambient-soundscape segment. And then the pace picks up again, with Irkutsk to Khabarovsk laying down an intensely kinetic rhythm over which spacey waves and effects drift. And on we go. Similar to the Emmellar duo project with Mark Lydon that preceded this tape in the Harsh Reality catalog (HR167), Rushton excels at thematic development and kept me dreamily engaged throughout.