Terminal Muse: Yellow

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This CD completed the Terminal Muse trilogy, and was Lid Emba’s final recording. After five CDs, I felt that I’d exhausted the premise, or at least working under that name, and suspected that it was time to move on. That being said, I’m as proud of Yellow as it is possible to be proud of one’s own work without tipping over into arrogance. The closer, “Hazel in my house,” was my elegy for the late, great, and much too unsung Eddie Hazel.

–Sean Moore

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February 26, 2013

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The fifth full-length release from Lid Emba...and the third in the Terminal Muse series. This band is the project created by Sean Moore...a fellow who uses sound as a means of composition. Yellow contains more strange instrumental music created for the thinking listener. Having heard previous Lid Emba releases, we were surprised at how musical some of this album is. Drums and melodies are more pronounced this time around which could indicate a slight change in direction for the band in the future. Yellow is a short album that clocks in at just over 34 minutes. These five tracks spin like modern mood pieces...and they create some very odd moods. Cool cuts include "One Less Philistine," "Daniel's Wired Mercy," and "Hazel In My House."

Baby Sue Magazine

Lid Emba, AKA Sean Moore, experimental soundscaper, is completing a trilogy of releases called Terminal Muse which have explored the idea of isolation in his music. The third instalment, Yellow, came out this week (the first two called Red and Blue respectively). His beginnings in recordings came at an early age - an inadvertent recording of his dog getting run over when he was a child. The tangle of sounds enveloping an ordinary neighbourhood, eclipsed by a childhood horror. Fast forward to now, where Moore created the Terminal Muse triad to come to terms with coping with a year of Hepatitis C treatment which has thankfully worked. The utilisation of sounds that blend together yet seem distinct, fuse to each other's core so that they become undetectable - it can be dense, cruel, lonely - but above all else there is a cathartic liberation in these tunes, a sense of shrugging off the shackles. The Terminal Muse stuff is through Stickfigure Recordings - if you like experimenting with wholesale the breadth of sound encapsulated by personal experience (which, whether you are aware of it or not, most of you do), this is well worth exploring further - head here for more.

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