Akira


  Hollywood Boulevard between
Betty Grable's and Rod Serling's stars...
    August 26th, 2006.

1526 SKELTON Magnyf. 1664 Yf it lyke you that I myght rowne in your eyre.

"Hollywood is like life,
you face it with the sum total
of your equipment."
- Joan Crawford    

Metro Red Line

Patio        









Thanksbetogiving
Hollywood

"He may not be one of the most prolific electronic composers currently out there,
nor one of the best known, but whether as a solo artist, software designer
or as a collaborator with Bjork, David Sylvian or Harold Budd,
Los Angeles-based musician Akira Rabelais is one of the very brightest
stars in the field - and speaking of stars, this hour long piece of music
was edited from location recordings made between Betty Grable's and
Rod Serling's stars on the Walk Of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.
Fragments from a variety of dislocated strands come together:
snatches of dialogue, all manner of incidentally intersecting live,
the bustle of tourists and passing traffic all come together,
with regular wafts of music clashing and
intermingling between shops and car stereos.
There are no tricks or fancy editing techniques here,
just a patient craftsmanship,
letting you into a subtly manipulated reality,
and the power of Rabelais' piece is vividly evocative."
    - Boomkat

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