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What?! No One Else Knows This Band?

djhexane | Ohio, USofA | 06/17/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you like Porcupine Tree's more ambient and spacious work, you should really like this album. It features the headman and vocalist of Porcupine Tree. Although he provides no vocals on this one, mmostly due to the fact that all of these songs are instrumentals. Now if you're looking for something thats 2 to 3 minutes in length, and conists of a set up like verse chorus, verse chorus Chorus. GO SOMEWHERE Else. This band has no time for ignorant pop lovers. This is very spacious, ambient, spacy, sometimes psychedlicy, electro-y rock. Bass Communion Pwowns you like no tommorow. Because tomorrow's gone (as Porcupine Tree would say)."

Drones, bleeps, a Robert Fripp sample - late night snooze

o dubhthaigh | north rustico, pei, canada | 03/10/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Both this one and the other BC disc dealing with alleged "ghost voices" are late night fodder for radio programs such as John Di Liberto's stuff on "Stars End". For all of Wilson's compelling work in Porcupine Tree, these releases and the No Man discs are strictly vanity projects for the completists. They certainly don't have the tension and release of the best of Eno's stuff or from other projects like Channel Light Vessel.

There's nothing really wrong with this stuff, but having stopped smoking pot 25 years ago, I tend to be less impressed. However, were I to be suffering through an interminable night of insomnia, I'd slap this baby right into the disc player, pick up some Willard Quine and I'm sure happy land would follow.

The selling point here, however, are the Fripp samples - that ascending sustain that is Fripp's trademark resounds at peak moments, as it always has, to raise the emotional investment in this music. I feel as though I could likely guess from whence these ascensions were sampled, but if you are familiar with anything like what he did on the Roches' "Losing True", you'll have the idea.

Worth purchasing? That's up to you. I'm heading back to sleep."

Bass Communion - 'Bass Communion II' (Resurgence)

Mike Reed | USA | 12/22/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Yet,another one of Porcupine Tree's main man Steve Wilson's side projects.He's got several,so I hear,like the three releases by Incredible Expanding Mindf**k(check them out).This is my first ever listen to Bass Communion and I like what I hear. In my humble opinion,it's best described as 'ambient progressive'. Tracks that make this import title a true keeper are the spaced out "Advert", "16 Second Swarm" and the thirteen minute, atmospheric "Wide Open Killingfield". Also liked the bonus two-track EP, but I don't understand why they simply couldn't tag those songs onto the one CD. Good release to have,just the same. Might appeal to fans of Flower Kings, Translantic, No Man and Flying Saucer Attack."