{"id":1275,"date":"2022-12-14T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/computerchemist354397511.wordpress.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2023-08-02T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T18:34:13","slug":"underneath-the-soul-ft-radioray-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerchemist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/12\/14\/underneath-the-soul-ft-radioray-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Underneath the Soul ft. RadioRay (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"#reviews\">Click <strong>HERE <\/strong>to jump to reviews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/computerchemist.bandcamp.com\/album\/underneath-the-soul-ft-radioray\">Click <strong>HERE <\/strong>to listen\/order<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1447365577\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/computerchemist.bandcamp.com\/album\/underneath-the-soul-ft-radioray\">underneath the soul ft. radioray by computerchemist<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;WTF? And where can I get more?!&#8221;<br>A second prog \/ spacerock album collaboration with vocalist\/musician RadioRay who has played with Alan Davey&#8217;s &#8220;The Psychedelic Warlords&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Label: Terrainflight TF018<br>Release Date: February 02, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Track listing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">flower on the grave 10:00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">way too much 08:28<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">turned to frost 11:10<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">mean machine 07:30<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">underneath the soul 17:58<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">ray sutton: lyrics, melodies &amp; vox<br>shelley: voice (4)<br>dave pearson: synths, acoustic &amp; electric guitars, bass, drums and sequencer programming<br><br>all composing, production and mastering in the digital domain at terrainflight hungary between nov 2021 and jan 2022 by dave pearson<br>ray&#8217;s parts recorded in his studio in the uk<br><br>all tracks \u00a9\u2117 2022 by ray sutton &amp; dave pearson<br><br>dave thanks: my wife and family, and everybody else who has helped to encourage and support my music over the years<br>ray thanks: ray would like to thank shelley and all those who turn off the telly<br><br>contacts:<br>terrainflight: <a href=\"mailto:info@terrainflight.com\">info@terrainflight.com<\/a><br>dave: <a href=\"https:\/\/computerchemist.bandcamp.com\">computerchemist.bandcamp.com<\/a><br>ray: <a href=\"https:\/\/radiorayisdead.bandcamp.com\">radiorayisdead.bandcamp.com<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"reviews\">Reviews<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"musikzirkus_en\">Stephan Schelle, musikzirkus-magazin (EN)<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/computerchemist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stephan_schelle.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1667\" width=\"225\" height=\"221\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Since 1998, <em>journalist<\/em><\/em>\/<em>photographer Stephan Schelle has maintained two internet sites dealing with rock and electronic music. In April 2007 he created the German language internet music review magazine Musikzirkus-Magazin.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">A year after the joint album &#8220;Masks&#8221; Dave Pearson aka Computerchemist and Ray Sutton aka Radioray are working together again. The result is their second album &#8220;Underneath The Soul&#8221;, which was released in February 2022. Once again the duo presented themselves as rocking but also with atmospherics. This time, however, the album doesn&#8217;t consistently resemble space rock bands like Hawkwind, but rather turns to prog\/art rock in some pieces and adds other styles like wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thematically it is, as on the predecessor &#8220;Masks&#8221;, quite sombre. This time the duo denounces environmental destruction. The cover already makes it clear in which direction the future of mankind is going if something is not finally done and we lay our home planet in rubble and ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">While Dave Pearson recorded synthesizers, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, drums and sequencer programming, Ray Sutton was responsible for the lyrics and the vocal melodies, which he also sang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The album begins with the ten minute &#8220;Flower On The Grave&#8221;. A rhythm from the drum computer and a piano melody introduce the song, in which Ray Sutton starts singing after just a few moments. That sounds <strong>very rocky with a prog touch<\/strong>. The song seems a bit melancholic, but catches your ear quickly and exudes a cozy atmosphere, despite the dark subject matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the 8:28 minute &#8220;Way Too Much&#8221;, which begins with wonderful electronic sounds, a rhythm quickly sets in and it gets rocky. Dave also gives the track a pretty fat bass rhythm. After more than a minute, some space rock elements come back into the music. &#8220;Way Too Much&#8221; is a driving, hypnotic song with some dry and edgy sounds. In the instrumental middle part, Dave lets his guitar slide into space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The following \u201cTurned To Frost\u201d is 11:10 minutes long. Pearly\/rhythmic keyboard motifs can be identified at first. Then Ray starts with some kind of chanting. His voice is alienated by the vocoder. It looks <strong>unreal and surreal<\/strong>. This atmosphere lasts up to minute four and is then transferred into a spacey\/rocking part. One has the feeling that a band is jamming here and not a single musician playing all the instruments alone.<strong> It all sounds very compact and harmonious. <\/strong>Hats off, gents<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The powerful &#8220;Mean Machine&#8221; comes across with a good portion of punk feeling at the beginning, only to then unite with space rock. It&#8217;s going really well. Some speech samples are then built into the second third, which spread out over rushing synths (like a turbine igniting wind). Then it goes on again very space rock-like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The 17:58 minute title track, with which the album ends, then starts psychedelic and a bit calmer. Again, there are some elements that point in the direction of space rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When Dave Pearson aka Computerchemist makes music together with Ray Sutton aka Radioray, it&#8217;s always quite rocky. In many cases they move in space rock. <strong>What&#8217;s impressive about this album again is that the music sounds a lot like a band and less like a singer plus a multi-instrumentalist playing all the instruments.<\/strong> &#8220;Underneath The Soul&#8221; is convincing &#8211; like &#8220;Masks&#8221; &#8211; in its entirety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>&#8212; Stephan Schelle, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musikzirkus-magazin.de\/dateien\/Pages\/CD_Kritiken\/elektronik\/computerchemist_underneath_the_soul.htm\" target=\"_blank\">musikzirkus-magazin.de<\/a>, December 2022<\/em> (google translated &#8211; all corrections are welcome!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stephen Jansen<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/computerchemist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stephen_jansen.jpg?w=217\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1280\" width=\"163\" height=\"198\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Stephen Jansen is an acclaimed writer of screenplays and novels. His plays have been performed in Germany, Australia, and the UK. He is signed to the Ahn &amp; Simrock Verlag theatre agency in Hamburg. He has a written a novel with ex-Hawkwind member Harvey Bainbridge and has worked as a Screenwriting lecturer and researcher for the UK&nbsp;TV show Most Haunted.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">WTF? And where can I get more? On the periodic table of music, Computerchemist started with Landform, moved through the various Berlin School styles, and then threw Nitro-Glycerin into the mix to give us Underneath the Soul with RadioRay. <strong>This is solid rock.<\/strong> Granite. Igneous strata found in the same caves as <strong>Hawkwind and early King Crimson.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Flower on the Grave, Way too Much, and Turn to Frost have <strong>blistering guitar passages worthy of Hillage.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But the real surprise here is Mean Machine. What a track! <strong>Blasts along like Hawkwind\u2019s Silver Machine with the ghost of Robert Calvert <\/strong>somewhere in the background. The final track, Underneath the Soul, is an extended piece and<strong> epic in nature<\/strong>, with that wonderful trip into instrumental heaven that I look forward to on all the good Prog albums.<br>This music is a brave step, but sometimes you have to take chances. This applies both to the listener and the artist. Computerchemist together with RadioRay have moved into new territory, I hope it won\u2019t be the last expedition, and that they take fans new and old, along with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>&#8212; Stephen Jansen, author of &#8220;The Light From Dead Stars&#8221; with Harvey Bainbridge, 15 Apr 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"musikzirkus_de\">Stephan Schelle, musikzirkus-magazin (DE)<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/computerchemist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/stephan_schelle.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1667\" width=\"225\" height=\"221\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Since 1998, <em>journalist<\/em><\/em>\/<em>photographer Stephan Schelle has maintained two internet sites dealing with rock and electronic music. In April 2007 he created the German language internet music review magazine Musikzirkus-Magazin.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ein Jahr nach dem gemeinsamen Album \u201eMasks\u201c arbeiten Dave Pearson aka Computerchemist und Ray Sutton aka Radioray erneut zusammen. Das Ergebnis ist ihr zweites gemeinsames Album \u201eUnderneath The Soul\u201c, das bereits im Februar 2022 erschienen ist. Erneut pr\u00e4sentiert sich das Duo recht rockig aber auch atmosph\u00e4risch. Dieses Mal \u00e4hnelt das Album aber nicht durchg\u00e4ngig Spacerockbands wie Hawkwind, sondern wandelt in einigen St\u00fccken eher im Prog-\/Artrock und f\u00fcgt weitere Stilistiken wie Wave hinzu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thematisch geht es, wie schon auf dem Vorg\u00e4nger \u201eMasks\u201c, recht d\u00fcster zu. Dieses Mal prangert das Duo die Umweltzerst\u00f6rung an. Das Cover macht schon deutlich in welche Richtung die Zukunft der Menschheit geht, wenn nicht endlich etwas unternommen wird und wir unseren Heimatplaneten in Schutt und Asche legen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">W\u00e4hrend Dave Pearson Synthesizer, Akustik- und E-Gitarre, Bass, Schlagzeug und Sequenzerprogrammierung eingespielt hat, war Ray Sutton f\u00fcr die Texte und die Gesangsmelodien, die er auch eingesungen hat, zust\u00e4ndig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Das Album beginnt mit dem zehnmin\u00fctigen \u201eFlower On The Grave\u201c. Ein Rhythmus aus dem Drumcompter und eine Pianomelodie leiten in den Song ein, bei dem schon nach wenigen Momenten Ray Sutton gesanglich einsetzt. <strong>Das klingt sehr rockig mit proggigem Einschlag<\/strong>. Der Song wirkt ein wenig melancholisch, geht aber schnell ins Ohr und verstr\u00f6mt, trotz der d\u00fcsteren Thematik, eine wohlige Stimmung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In das 8:28min\u00fctige \u201eWay Too Much\u201c, das mit herrlichen elektronischen Kl\u00e4ngen beginnt, setzt schnell ein Rhythmus ein und es wird rockig. Dave spendiert dem Track dar\u00fcber hinaus einen recht fetten Bassrhythmus. Nach mehr als einer Minute kommen dann wieder einige Spacerockelemente in die Musik. \u201eWay Too Much\u201c ist ein treibender, hypnotischer Song mit einigen trockenen und kantigen Sounds. Im instrumentalen Mittelteil l\u00e4sst Dave dann seine Gitarre ordentlich ins Weltall abgleiten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">11:10 Minuten ist dann das folgende \u201eTurned To Frost\u201c lang. Perlend\/rhythmische Keyboardmotive sind zun\u00e4chst auszumachen. Dann setzt Ray mit einer Art Sprechgesang ein. Seine Stimme ist dabei vom Vocoder verfremdet. Das wirkt unwirklich und surreal. Diese Stimmung zieht sich bis zu Minute Vier hin und wird dann in einen spacig\/rockigen Part \u00fcberf\u00fchrt. Man hat das Gef\u00fchl als w\u00fcrde hier eine Band jammen und nicht ein einzelner Musiker alle Instrumente allein einspielen. Das klingt alles sehr kompakt und harmonisch. Hut ab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mit einer geh\u00f6rigen Portion Punkfeeling kommt dann das druckvolle \u201eMean Machine\u201c zu Beginn r\u00fcber, um sich dann mit Spacerock zu vereinen. Das geht ganz sch\u00f6n ab. Einige Sprachsamples werden dann im zweiten Drittel eingebaut, die sich auf rauschenden Synthies (so als w\u00fcrde eine Turbine Wind entfachen) ausbreiten. Danach geht es wieder sehr Spacerockartig weiter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Psychedelisch und etwas ruhiger startet dann das 17:58 min\u00fctige Titelst\u00fcck, mit dem das Album dann endet. Auch hier sind wieder einige Elemente enthalten, die in Richtung Spacerock weisen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Wenn Dave Pearson aka Computerchemist zusammen mit Ray Sutton aka Radioray Musik macht, dann ist diese immer recht rockig angelegt. In vielen F\u00e4llen bewegen sie sich im Spacerock. Beeindruckend ist bei diesem Album wieder, dass die Musik sehr nach einer Band und weniger nach einem S\u00e4nger plus Multiinstrumentlisten, der alle Instrumente eingespielt hat, klingt. \u201eUnderneath The Soul\u201c \u00fcberzeugt &#8211; wie auch schon \u201eMasks\u201c auf ganzer L\u00e4nge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>&#8212; Stephan Schelle, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musikzirkus-magazin.de\/dateien\/Pages\/CD_Kritiken\/elektronik\/computerchemist_underneath_the_soul.htm\" target=\"_blank\">musikzirkus-magazin.de<\/a>, Dezember 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/computerchemist.bandcamp.com\/album\/underneath-the-soul-ft-radioray\">Click <strong>HERE <\/strong>to listen\/order<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WTF? 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