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Robert Poss:
Crossing Casco Bay
This review poses one distinct challenge that separates it from most other reviews I have writtenin other reviews I was reviewing music, but here I am just reviewing sound. Unfortunately, for 3/5 of Robert Posss new album, that is all that there is. I know what some of you out there are saying, but its not true. Im not opposed to ambient music, at least in principle, but this album is just downright bad. One whole song is the ambient noise of crickets chirping. Now, crickets chirping may be a pretty noise, but it surely isnt music. Two of the last songs involve music; however, when Poss actually decides to put music on his album, you can almost see why he shied away from it earlier. The two songs that do have musical inclinations are undistinguished and pretty disposable on their own. All of this leads us to the wider question: Why would anyone spend the time and money necessary to create an album of nothing? The answer to this completely eludes me. There is no justification for the existence of this album. No one is asking for an album of mostly silence and occasional sounds, and no musician should take pride in creating it, as it does not technically qualify as music. Brian Eno made several good ambient albums, and, as far as I can tell, the genre does not really have anywhere to go. Robert Poss could be seen as a weird deconstruction of the ambient genre, the response to some dare about making less and less music on an album. As far as actually listening to it, though, I cant see what the possible point in doing so might be.
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