{"id":1131,"date":"2005-06-01T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2005-06-01T05:00:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T10:00:04","slug":"ht004-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/ht004-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc and Sender: Arc and Sender"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arc and Sender - s\/t <\/p><\/div>\n

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  1. (untitled)<\/li>\n
  2. [download#5#nohits] [download#5#image]<\/li>\n
  3. Semblance<\/li>\n
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  5. Perambulations<\/li>\n
  6. Light Pain <\/li>\n
  7. Skinner Box<\/li>\n
  8. Sleep Hope Wake and Then<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All compositions \u00a92005 Arc and Sender.
    \nFeatures guest appearances by saxophonist Dan Scofield (Shot X Shot, Sonic Liberation Front<\/a>) and violinist Jennifer Hutt.<\/p>\n

    Recording by Edan Cohen at Soundgun (2004\/05).
    \nAdditional recording and mixing by
    \nEric Carbonara at     Nada Sound Studio<\/a>.
    \nMastered by Mark Guenther at     Seattle Disc Mastering<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Arc And Sender\u2019s self-titled debut includes a range of pieces \u2013 from avant-garde interstitials to hard-driving walls of sounds to placid guitar arrangements. Despite being a relatively new band, the trio is earning comparisons to similar adventurous instrumental guitar-based bands like Growing, Tarentel, and godspeed you black emperor as well as guitar experimenters like Glenn Branca and Nels Cline.<\/p>\n

    Arc and Sender\u2019s primary line-up features Jason Hutt on guitars, Ryan Grove on drums and Greg Pardew alternating between standard guitar and baritone guitar. The result is a density and swiftness that are impossible with the involvement of bass guitar. The album begins with a foreboding introduction before the storm-like crunch of \u201cHundred-Year Flood\u201d fully introduces the band. The intricacy of Arc and Sender\u2019s cacophony is best heard in this piece as each guitarist improvises freely within the composition\u2019s structure. The guitars swell like waves out of the song\u2019s surface, speeding by like a passing ambulance\u2019s sirens.<\/p>\n

    Perhaps the most interesting track is \u201cSquares and Circles.\u201d Featuring all three members on prepared guitar, Arc and Sender creates a unique gamelan-type sound that showcases the band\u2019s innovative quest for unique tones and textures. Likewise, \u201cSkinner Box\u201d showcases the band\u2019s ability to construct fully improvisational pieces alongside with fully composed pieces.<\/p>\n

    While the massiveness of the guitars often sounds like more than two guitars, the only instance of actual over-dubbing is of violin and saxophone. Saxophonist Dan Scofield guests on \u201cLight Pain.\u201d His layered parts (he plays both alto and baritone) give the piece an unorthodox dizzying effect. Similarly, the addition of Jennifer Hutt\u2019s violin on \u201cPerambulations\u201d gives the track more gravity and urgency. Pieces like \u201cSemblance\u201d and \u201cSleep Wake\u2026\u201d add another dimension to the band. Arc and Sender prove that they can create heavily textured music without the guitar barrage present in pieces like \u201cHundred-Year Flood\u201d and \u201cPerambulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

    While the quiet\/loud and soft\/hard dichotomies are explored by Arc and Sender, it is done unobtrusively and gradually \u2013 differentiating the trio from bands often described as \u2018math rock\u2019 or \u2018post-rock\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    (untitled) [download#5#nohits] [download#5#image] Semblance [download#6#nohits] [download#6#image] Perambulations Light Pain Skinner Box Sleep Hope Wake and Then All compositions \u00a92005 Arc […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,47,68,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc-and-sender","category-artists","category-ht004","category-releases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":488,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/arc-and-sender-st\/","url_meta":{"origin":1131,"position":0},"title":"Arc and Sender – s\/t","author":"admin","date":"June 7, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Arc and Sender Arc and Sender 2005 CD, Mp3 Download","rel":"","context":"In "Arc and Sender"","block_context":{"text":"Arc and Sender","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/category\/arc-and-sender\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"arcandsender","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hightwo.net\/two\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/arcandsender-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":814,"url":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/review-arc-and-sender-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1131,"position":1},"title":"Review – Arc and Sender","author":"admin","date":"March 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Christian Carey Source: Signal to Noise Fall 2005 Experimental instrumental rock trio Arc And Sender wreak exuberant fury on their self-titled debut... 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