Embracing that view, Red Light New Music fashioned a program that melded increasingly complex compositions with episodes of ambient sound, carefully amplified and subtly lighted.
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Though Sketches of Spam is a genre traversing song-cycle which simultaneously embraces and deconstructs folk, jazz, fusion, ambient, drum 'n' bass, metal, funk, punk, blues, and every permutation thereof - and many of which have yet to be tagged - Cataldi's diverse compositions hang together as a collection, which is a rare feat in any generation of modern recorded music.
A mix of classic - not nostalgic - rock (the influence, presumably, of producer Tony Visconti), ambient duskiness and the electronic furbelows he has embraced since the 1990s, Reality gels unexpectedly well.
He was the first BBC DJ to regularly play dub reggae, and through the 1980s and 90s he would embrace New York hip-hop, Chicago house, Detroit techno, Pakistani qawaali, Congolese soukous, ambient electronica, death metal and alternative country music - broadcasting at its most challenging and innovative.
From the gothic-industrial dirge that opens the CD to the experimental ambient track at the end, this is clearly a new A.F.I., willing to embrace all of its influences, whether they be the Misfits, Queen, Bauhaus, Duran Duran, or, on "Bleed Black," Eric Burdon and the Animals doing "The House of the Rising Sun".
