Screening ~ Low End ~ 2004
Maor Appelbaum Productions MAP001.
 
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1. Alone Suffering And Screaming
2. Out-Law
3. The Last One
4. Space Dogs Of War
5. Experiments
6. Coming Home
7. Printing Images
8. The Morning After

All music and arrangements by Maor Appelbaum

All music played on this album is performed only on bass guitars with effects and manipulations

This Israeli experimental project is a one-man show from Maor Appelbaum, who I've only heard of previously through his work with the unconventional metal band Sleepless. The entire disc was recorded using only bass guitar and effects over the course of 1999/2000 and varies from flowing ambient sounds to a more ethereal and spacey sort of approach, with all of the songs relying on fairly repetitive structures. I'm not particularly moved by a lot of these sounds, but I will give him credit for having done a hell of a lot considering a bass guitar was the only instrument - especially because very little of this sounds like bass at all! "Space Dogs of War" has more back and forth movement and lush depth befitting of its title, similar to "Coming Home"; whereas "Experiments" is fairly minimal in its use of soft bass drones and light smatterings of movement, but it also foregoes the spacey sort of aesthetic for a more sinister tone, and therefore I enjoy it much more. "Printing Images" is sort of a mix of the two approaches, with some darker passages strengthening the less interesting "outer space" kind of feel heard in the other compositions... - aversionline.com