Dan Fröberg - At Dawn we All Fall Down the Stairs [Ideal Recordings - 2010]Dan Fröberg is a sound artist from Sweden, of whom I don't know much about. Apparently his label's site calls him a "wild man of the arts". Well anyways there's nothing really outright "wild" about this rather conceptual release, being recorded with glass instruments and found sound, with rather long and windy liner notes going into depth about the theories behind the piece. Of course the problem with conceptual releases like this is that the music becomes more interesting in theory than in practice. Sure enough these drones do occasional reach orchestral proportions, but it doesn't outright blow my mind as the label suggests it would. Anyways the long title track (42 minutes) is better than the other, shorter track, which starts out annoying and ends up not sounding much different from what has been achieved already earlier. I'm willing to give Fröberg the benefit of a doubt as far as his talents. I just think there should be more to his music than just an idea.    Lawrence J. Patti
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