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'A Survey of Remembered Things' A Survey Of Remembered Things (Quirkworks, 1997), a split album with percussionist John Orsi, contains some of the most interesting pieces of this period. Chango is a psychological study in the vein of the late Steve Roach. A Tibetan mantra and cosmic clouds orbit around the mechanical rhythm of The Paradigm Pool. A tender musicbox theme rings inside the paradisiac bubble of Evaporata. The standout is the quiet, liquid, zen-like chamber music of Mercurial Wave. Bone may have achieved here what he did not and will not achieve in the short-song format: a celestial choir and a romantic piano figure, coupled with an African polyrhythm, propel Komarov's Fire into a pop-jazz ecstasis. |