The Amazing Births - Younger Moon mp3 album

Amazing Births was a duo out of Westlake, Ohio consisting of Mark McGuire on guitar, tapes, and electronics and Julian Gulyas on synthesizer and electronics. Mark McGuire, as it turns out, has had a prolific career with tons of albums under his name, and varying projects, including the Emeralds. Amazing Births seemed to have slipped through the cracks. This is an extremely obscure album being sold for ridiculously cheap these days. So you probably think this is some second-rate act not worth your time. Not at all! What you get is wonderful combination of electronic and minimalism with a droning quality to it. It's quite a departure from Aisling Sustrunk as it moves away from musique concrète to a more synth and organ with tape loops approach. And seeing what instruments and approach these guys had by this point, make no mistake of the worship of Fripp & Eno and of Heldon. Lots of strange synth effects and tape manipulation similar to Frippertronics. Four lengthy cuts on this album but all wonderful pieces. On "Dial Out" it's easy to see where Mark McGuire got his inspiration for his guitar playing and that's Robert Fripp. "Whelm" reminds me a bit of Manuel Göttsching's Inventions for Electric Guitar while "Eclipsed by the Younger Moon" starts off like a rather pleasant ambient number and then towards the end the mood gets more eerie. I can't believe this album is languishing in total obscurity mainly because these guys never had a Bandcamp page or a webpage so I doubt a whole lot sold outside the Westlake area. They seemed to have completely vanished as there's been no new releases since, probably due to Mark moving to Portland (and then, more recently Los Angeles). Surprisingly good and worth your time if the description sounds good to you.