JONATHAN COLECLOUGH/BASS COMMUNION/COLIN POTTER

BASS COMMUNION is the electronic side project of one Steven Wilson. He released his first BASS COMMUNION album in 1998, with a followup recording in 1999. I have those two and appreciate them enough to have given the 4 star rating for both. It was nice to hear some guitar and sax in those, and they both clock in at around an hour.

This particular recording is different. Released in 2003 Steven gets some help from two drone artists in Jonathan Coleclough and Colin Potter. And this recording really does drone a lot. All soundscapes all the time. And that time is 2 1/2 hours! I do not have the patience for this. My plan was to spin it 3 times, I managed to play it twice, which was 5 hours of listening time. Just too samey, even though of course these guys change things up at times. And this is mostly all electronics.

A two disc affair, with disc two being one long 74 minute track called "Epidural". Disc one has four soundscapes on it ranging from 9 to 28 minutes. One interesting thing about this album is that all three musicians were involved in playing the music and the mixing it. The opener "Passed" is performed by Wilson but mixed by Potter. "Yossaria" was performed by Potter and Coleclough but mixed by Wilson. "Raiser" was performed by Wilson and mixed by Potter. "Pethidine" performed by Wilson and Coleclough and mixed by Coleclough. And finally "Epidural was performed by Wilson and mixed by Coleclough.

So a lot of droning and spacey soundscapes. It's fairly dark. I remember BASS COMMUNION playing before a Steven Wilson concert I went to years ago. And it's kind of cool that the cover art for this one was done by Coleclough, with the three pills representing these three droners. This is the kind of music I need to microdose, not eat the whole mushroom. Come on Steven! Too much.

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