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Rating: An elegant orchestration of 5 long instrumental pieces (7 on the double LP) where indie-rock elements blend with droning inclinations, utilizing that recognizable soft/loud scheme of the end of the millennium which made the fortune of contemporary Canadian, Scottish, etc. bands. This small gem from 1999 finds its strength precisely in the element that led the "post-rock" genre/melting pot (a very debatable categorization) to a monotonous flattening of content: namely, that phase of calm and atmosphere hard to recreate in contrast to the explosive parts. Because although many have achieved interesting results through contrasting both parts - more due to the merit of the "loud", violent chaos moments - finding the closure of the circle through the more emotional phase is a merit of few.
The guitarist of Tarentel, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, thus exposes the credo and technical characteristics of the band: "We don’t want to bore you, playing our pieces. For the bassline that Kenseth (Thibideau, former bassist, ed.) created for "Ursa Major", Jeff (Rosenberg, ed.) rewrote the part for his laptop, giving the track a new dimension. We like the idea of constantly renewing our sound. This makes everything more interesting to move forward".
A prehistoric man throws a bone up into the sky. The bone spins in the air, but... suddenly the scene shifts to a rotating space station, among the stars.
From Bone to Satellite.
Feeling comfortable with gloomy Morricone-esque guitar echoes in a spaghetti-western version from "Once Upon a Time in the Cosmos", only to get lost in the sudden roar of feedback and dissonances, alternating anxiety and swagger. The compositions are simple and understandable, in their unpredictability. The skyline of a nighttime San Francisco is just noticeable under the vastness of that dark space that evokes memories of future events.
The constant evolution in parallel with the Universe, the stars, and the constellations is not just an intuition for this album, but it sums up the spirit of the Tarentel, who for over ten years of career do not lose the habit of changing and varying from one work to another. In the end, this is the very essence of human evolution: a closed cyclical path of transformation that starts from the bone and arrives to knowledge.
These are 74 minutes of cold instrumental epicness.
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By CosmicJocker
A cosmic dust permeates the tracks; sudden guitar fluorescences illuminate hidden paths while the froth of elastic rhythms crashes against the rocks.
"From Bone to Satellite" is certainly a good record with an interesting structure. However, it seems to me to be a somewhat artificial structure that suffers from a monochromatism similar to Blok's poems from the later period.
