Neil Rolnick: Messages

Using simply a laptop and tons of imagination, Neil Rolnick creates an album of sonic samples that get stretched, pulled intertwined and released in quite creative and diverse ways. Taking simple words like “measuring” or “falling apart”, Rolnick purees them into a mosaic of ideas on “sO mANy mE’s”, while “MONO Prelude” combines sitarish noodles with something from pop rocker Joe Jackson. “WakeUp” feels like a Supertramp song taken into outer space, while “Gate Beats” mix bebopping robots forming dots and dashes. Something from Wendy Carlos meeting at the crossroads takes place on “A Robert Johnson Sampler”, and something whipping the rowing team in Ben-Hur goes into ramming speed on “Balkanization”. The next generation from the wave of Brian Eno comes to explore new lands.