Carl Weingarten & Forrest Fang

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The album provides a pleasant impressionistic listening experience, one with very few dissonant spaces. The moods created on Invisibility are as detailed and nuanced as each of the compositions. Themes of warmth, hope and consonance emerge out of the nine impressionistic nocturnes. For the most part, Weingarten's guitar breathes warm chords beneath Fang's swirling synthetic atmospheres. When this effort begins to seem over harmonious, Fang makes things interesting by throwing in cycling crystalline chimes or earthen percussion for Weingarten's snaking guitar melodies to weave through. On a few tracks, the guitar is way up front in the mix and Weingarten slides and picks poignant leads and rolling swells, the echoes of which fade away into the vast ambient elsewhere. In other places his long tones and loops intertwine completely within the fabric of Fang's electronic timbral designs. It is through these deeper spatial dimensions that Invisibility aspires to impact psychologically, somewhere between the explicit and the ephemeral. - Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END

... We find Fang and Weingarten exploring new possibilities in a musical realm forged by Fripp and Eno, the minimalists and generation or two of fellow ambient musicians. Fang's shimmering electronics provide a bed upon which Weingarten layers guitar motifs, textures and sonorities... Guitar sequences were developed to move the music ahead rather than to merely create a trance-like groove. The results are truly magnificent and repeated listenings will reward the attentive listener with a multitude of details and kaleidoscopic timbres and complete musical satisfaction. - Dean Suzuki/KPFA Producer & Host