RAVEN RECORD REVIEW

Carl Roessler and Clive Wright "Quiet Music"

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CC Tribal Tribal virtuouso musician extraordinaire, Carl Roessler, and master guitarist Clive Wright are CC Tribal. Their wonderful debut recording is a refreshing addition to recent releases harkening to the birth of a new, alternative world genre. It is fitting that the cover art of the pair was captured during a recent lunar eclipse as it cast their shadows on the desert floor.

"Quiet Music" is a fusion of sweeping, synthesizer-driven soundscape beds overlaid with digitally delayed guitar and richly textured native wind instruments and breezy percussion. Wright is a master of the ebow which he used to effect the disc's distinctive guitar sound. With elements drawn from the Brian Eno/Harold ambient sector, CC Tribal's mix of modern and indigenous instrumentation also speaks to a kind of future/primitive fusion.

As such, the CD runs the gamut from the sweeping atmospherics of "Northern Lights"(complete with chorus of dolphins) and the ethereal "Awesome Day", to the didjeridu-infused, eerie suspense of "Spiral Ascension" and otherworldly, glissading clockwork of "Nightime"--each piece on the recording is the sonic equivalent of taking a deep, shamanic journey. The final track, "Land, Sea and Sky" (and title of the accompanying Videodisc), is a transcendent, heartsong of flute and guitar soaring somewhere close to Paradise.

It's not really surprising that some of the music was recorded in the amazing Integratron space out in the California desert (see photo and link below). Whether the Space Brothers have actually visited the place is anyone's guess, but there is no doubt that there were spirits in attendance when this talented duo created what promises to be the first of many future incredible collaborations.

Carl Roessler is an esteemed member of the Raven Drum Artists Collective and currently Musician-In-Residence at the Living Desert Museum in Palm Desert, California. He has also been involved in doing healing workshops in the Coachella Valley when he is not performing like a desert dervish in drum circles with swarms of children (and their transfixed parents) at the Museum's Village Watutu.

Clive Wright is a record producer and composer of music for commercials. He has worked in the Hip Hop and R&B field with Montel Jordan among others, and was also lead guitarist for the platinum selling band, Cock Robin.

The duo is now starting to present the CC Tribal experience in live performance and their debut recording and videodisc are available at the web address below:

http://www.geocities.com/cctribal/