THE MESSAGE SERVICE

The Message Service is bowed electric guitar with evolving percussion. Lush soundscapes. A ceremonial & planetary type feel. A movement of textural sound combinations creating colors for the mind.

The Message Service has received an Honorable Mention for Best Recordings of 2003 from Wind and Wire reviewer Bill Binkleman. The catagory is Best Ambient, Spacemusic, and Ethno-Tribal Recordings of 2003. View Awards

Reviews

"With ethnic percussion peppering the bowed strings of his Telecaster and/or Stratocaster Antony De Gennaro launches into "Orbit" above softly-spiraling worlds of subdued psychedelia where Easternish drones shimmer in metallic radiance and sprinklings of cymbal-dust. With luxuriously unhurried transformations,"I Once Was Me" hovers on contemplative ripples and slow-motion curlicues, sometimes accented with spaciously-applied percussive bits. Opening "The Cosmic Door"(3:24) reveals a brassily-sheening world covered with lightly-buzzy energy-clouds, marked by thumps, patters and six-string reverberations.

"Muted clangs announce the beginning of a freeform "Ceremony" (15:21); its seething mists part to reveal sonorous organ chords and floating jangles which stream along in lazily wandering channels, darkening seductively in its final sweltering moments. Thank the entity of your choice, it's 'Friday' filled with twinkling belltones and trickling notes which take their own little daytrips, and thus end these seven tracks of peacefully rarefied exotica from the northwesterner Antony De Gennaro... With thoughtful pacing and an amiably straightforward approach, the paisley currents of The Message Service just "are". The dismissive non-listener could pass this off as "some kind of hippy music", but these accessible vibes are smoothed out into something rather more magical and just as effective. Nice work! David J Opdyke, June 2003 Read Full Review

"This work is in the original pioneering spirit that inspired Space Pirate Radio in 1973. This work has that original spirit of freedom that we got from the first days of Pink Floyd, expanded upon by Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul 2, Heldon and others. Bravo and keep the spirit. Like the artists I mentioned, I will be going back to your album long after the bulk of New Age acoustic guitar, solo piano and so called healing works are filed and forgotten." Guy Guden, Space Pirate Radio.

The Message Service is a gripping composition of the best eclectic ambient guitar in my recent radio programming. The Message Service has also made me go back into Legends in Stone. I am finding it to be as enthralling also. Both will find a lot of airplay on 'The Wall'. Flyingman (Mark Caldwell) WAWL, 'Light in the Night', Chattanooga, TN.

We are loving The Message Service. 'Friday' has become a permanent part of our library, we'll be playing it 20 years from now! Thanks for coming up with such a unique, creative piece.
DJ Thornton, Morning Breeze, KSBR Jazz! FM 88.5 Mission Viejo, CA

June 2003 Review Bill Binkelman, WIND and WIRE, Minneapolis - St. Paul.

Song clips available via Real Audio:

Orbit
I Once Was Me
Above     RealAudio
The Cosmic Door
Ceremony     RealAudio
Life Forms
Friday

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