Entry 200 - Black Rain - Dark Pool

 

Sometimes when I listen to my collection I'm left with the question, when is something music and when is it something else? At what point do we cross that line from being musical to being just pure rhythm or noise? Dark Pool makes me ask this question a lot throughout its play time.

What is this? What am I listening to? There is absolutely structure, there is absolutely percussive elements, sometimes there's even a trace of melody... but this is not music... this is something different.

Dark Pool is more of an experience than it is an album. It channels primitive brain emotions: fear, seeking shelter from an unknown threat, the deep need to be comforted but finding none.

Where I would typically look for melody there is droning noise. Where I would look for a consistent beat I find chaos. Where I would find structure I only find disarray.

Black Rain has tapped into the primordial part of the human consciousness with Dark Pool. This is not music, this is not noise... the album exists in that razors edge between the two worlds.