Search - O-Type :: Western Classics

O-Type is made up of members of the legendary and iconoclast MX-80 sans singer Rich Stim. Here, Bay Area guitarist Bruce Anderson and sampler/sound sculptor Dale Sophiea facilitate a dark venture into electronic ambient tendencies within a six-string frame that references the sustained tones of Morton Feldman and Ennio Morricone. Western Classics is not a tribute per se to the films represented by the song titles, though each musical venture takes a nod to the cinematic view before re-morphing and adding fields of abstraction. The final piece, "McCabe & Mrs. Miller (With Deleted Scenes)" pools together the members? three decades of musical research of minimalism, sound collage, music concrete and composition into a 30-minute epic that stands above and beyond association with any current musical trends or scenes. The fifth release in O-Type?s New Edge series of ambient music!