Ben Reynolds – Music Is The Music Language CD

Ben Reynolds – Music Is The Music Language CD "It’s no secret that Ben Reynolds has put out a heap of records within a very short time. Pretty much every review of his work begins by exclaiming how prolific he has been recently. Luckily, his work ethic (he has also recently begun collaborating with Ashtray Navigations and he plays bass with The Wow) is matched by a desire to push boundaries and stretch musical ideas. Many of Reynolds’ past CD-R releases have been beautiful marriages of acoustic guitar flurries with amorphous electronic drones. On “Music is the Music Language,” his first ‘legit’ CD and the first release for the Finnish Ikuisuus label, Ben has tangled up his previous musical ideas and created what is perhaps his most abstract and phantasmagoric release yet. It’s immediately apparent from the first ten seconds or so into the record that something unearthly is going on. “Swing + Maths” begins with a subtle electronic trill with what sounds like haphazardly manipulated han