The Life Force Trio - The Living Room
[Plug Research]

With Plug Research's reputation ballooning along with the ever present Carlos Nino, (one half of Ammon Contact and the driving force behind Build and ark and Hu Vibrational) The life force trio is an endeavour that carries a lot of weighty expectations and lives up to them with a proud sense of the diversity of The Living Room.

The Life Force Trio centres around heavy ambience, a spiritual aura encircles the tracks, diffusing into all elements almost invisibly. Most of the tracks are instrumental, with vocals featured sitting among the arrangements instead of on top. Soft vocal backdrops are used as instruments in Space Flowers/Carousel and childish foreign vocals skip in and out of opener Coliseum.

Starship takes from older references, with harmonium and Piaf-esque delicately wobbling violins dancing like an old couple on Super8 film. The track plays out with tinny drums, shifting without moving, echoes of a time lost to modern music.

The Living Room represents experimentation, a deluge of different genres and styles, with tracks varying between super futuristic programming and old jazz influences, (track seven is aptly titled Alice! in a nod to Ms Coltrane).

Elements used are left in their original form, not modernised or 'brought up to date' as it were. It's as close as we'll get to a compilation of found ambience, spanning the last 50 years of jazz and electronica, and it's just spectacular.