![]() ![]() It's very dramatic, and the final scene between Whitmore and his daughter is beautifully written. All of this leads to a big confrontation between Preacher and Dingo (the conflict with which the story began). 9.) Kitty decides to take the young girl under her wing, dress her up and show her (and her dad) what it's like to be an attractive young lady. 5.) The Preacher decides to conduct a "temperance" campaign and wipe out booze in Dodge 6.) Kitty (and later Wally and friends) decide to fight back 7.) The Preacher's daughter enlists the kindly Festus to assist in the campaign, creating additional conflict 8.) A huge street brawl breaks out at the preacher's meeting. 4.) Whitmore convinces the boy's parents that his recovery is due to divine intervention, but Doc Adams says it was a standard medical treatment issue (I thought the episode might develop this idea: spiritualism vs medicine, but it was dropped). 3.) Drunken rowdies in Dodge led by Wally (LQ Jones) accidentally cause a young boy to be run over. Dingo will continue to circulate as the plot develops. 2.) Young, violent miscreant named Dingo (John Saxon) puts the moves on her her father intervenes. Bennett, Christina Vantzau, Asher Woodworth, Tasos Grammatikos, Les Ateliers Claus, The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library, The Oglala Sioux Tribe, and the people of Livaniana, Embrosnerós, and Rodakino, Crete.Here they are: 1.) Rough-and-tough (self-appointed) Preacher (Whitmore) comes to Dodge with his lovely young daughter. ![]() ![]() Special thanks to Benjamin Bennett, William E. "Nowhere" and "Badlands" recorded at Les Ateliers Claus (Brussels, Belgium) and in Badlands National Park (South Dakota, USA), "Spectral Valley" recorded at The Schoolhouse (Brooklyn, USA), "Embrosnerós" recorded in Embrosnerós (Apokoronas, Crete, Greece) Bennett describes its creation as taking place “mostly during sunset hours, blanketed by waves of cicadas as sheep bells twinkled in the distance.” A micro-tuned DX7 radiates in the periphery while the guitar’s strings hang and reverberate like deepening shadows at dusk.Īll music composed, performed, recorded, and mixed by John Also Bennett Gestural breaths of lap steel shimmer in sparkling air, with echoes of both the dusty West and some forgotten paradise. Even outlier “Spectral Valley” – one of the few nods towards Bennett’s work in progressive kosmische trio Forma – unfolds with patient grandeur, rich swells of electronics gleaming in long golden arcs.Ĭlosing track “Embrosnerόs” (named for the verdant interior Cretan village where it was recorded) best embodies the album’s cinematic liminality, at the axis of barren and beatific. The use of extreme glissandos conjures a sense of windswept plains and winding canyons, primordial and unpopulated. Footsteps crunch across dry soil and rocky ravines, beneath skies stretching to the horizon. Opening with the desolate 15-minute “Nowhere,” Bennett’s playing is both glacial and geological, attuned to “the wonder and absolute emptiness” of the Badlands as “an infinite living sculpture.” Notes stretch, shift, and drift into vistas of twilit silence. ![]() This multi-layered generative process resulted in a collection as vast and bewildering as the terrain that inspired it: Out there in the middle of nowhere. The following year, upon relocating with his wife (Kranky composer Christina Vantzou) to the cliffside village of Livaniana on the island of Crete, Bennett discovered a method of translating his minimalist lap steel phrases into live MIDI information, which he then used to trigger different waveforms to extend the resonance of the instrument. Moved by the scale and complexity of the landscape – “remnants of an ancient seafloor mixed with the ash of a volcanic eruption, eroded over millennia and now resembling the tangled folds of earth’s brain” – he sculpted a series of stark, microtonal arrangements using a 1940’s Oahu lap steel guitar, a Yamaha SY77 multi-timbral synthesizer, and field recordings. Experimental musician John Also Bennett’s latest full-length emerged from a bicoastal pandemic road trip through the badlands of South Dakota. ![]()
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