On The Seventh Day

An imaginative, avant-garde style offering from Lord Of The Ants that combines his trademark cinematic electronica style with classical influences to create music that is both thematic and very atmospheric. The music is complex and intriguing with strong contemporary rhythms, nice deep basses and interesting soundscapes that remain full of form, structure and anticipation without ever venturing into the experimental. This is coupled with beautifully complex arrangements and excellent piano alongside great synth work and searing guitar. Lord Of The Ants continues to produce a multifarious musical style that is quite fascinating, incorporating musical styles ranging from Tangerine Dream and Vangelis to Moby and Boards of Canada. Add to that the alluring abstract themes and it is music to make us think.

Jean Lauxerois begins his notes to Marc Coppey’s recording of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites by enumerating the many reasons why yet another version of these familiar works “to swell the ever-growing ranks” is superfluous, then explains Coppey’s decision to ignore the arguments as “obedience to a deeper logic, a feeling of necessity”. Lauxerois offers many examples of this “deeper logic”–such as that the Suites somehow correspond to the six days of creation (and on the seventh day God rested…), or that the Suites somehow possess an internal universal code summarizing Leibnitz’s best-of-all-possible-worlds theorem. While it’s impossible to know exactly how obedient Coppey has been to this “deeper logic”, thankfully he delivers an expertly performed set that on purely musical terms renders such rhetorical tripe irrelevant.