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A musical prodigy at age 6,
Ebeling has been displaying natural talent ever
since.Eventually mastering nearly
any namable instrument, he became an indispensable part of hundreds
of studio recordings, live acts, and a looming figure behind the
scenes of uncountable musical entities.As a Grammy nominated producer and engineer his
credits are vast and intense.As
a writer and performer, Ebeling formed Ebeling Hughes in 1994 and
Downtown in 2001.Known as one
of the modern descendants of space-rock, Ebeling is a globe
trotting key carrying member of the music-that-matters
echelon.
A little boy named Bobby Ebeling spent his magical
youth listening to The Beatles.He really loved that song "Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds."On the other side of
Detroit, another wide-eyed youngster named Chucky Hughes was
dreamily soaking in the rays of Tomita and his synthesized
orchestrations.Now everyone
knows that when hallucinaiton meets technology, harmony is attained
upon cloudless levels.So it was
that these two boys soon immersed themselves into the Star Wars
enlightenment of '76.Through
endless recesses of adventures in their own Millenium Falcons, they
prepared for the jump into hyperspace.
Uniting hemispheres in
1993, Chuck Hughes' Eno-ethic soaked into Bob Ebeling's Atom Heart
Motherisms.Today Ebeling Hughes
are mellow like meadows and producing the inspirational emeralds
for the next generation.On
their international debut release, Transfigured Night, Ebeling
Hughes spell out their manicness with a psychedelic, lush tale of
love and life stripped down to its honest essences.
Born of a
desire to defeat the depression dragon, which can and does
illusively soar down from absolutely nowhere, Ebeling Hughes helps
us to drink the nectar of the cosmos, and prepare for gravity to
pull us back.Opening with an
invitation to 'Transfigure' oneself, wandering through metaphysical
ceremony and temporal illusion, these hymns carry peace into the
soul and beckon you to quietude within a dreamy
'night.'Transfigured Night
makes you feel strange and then you realize, you are
strange.
Ebeling Hughes
Transfigured Night
Zero
Hour
This enhanced CD from this revisionist psychedelic duo Bob
Ebeling and Chuck Hughes is an album that is to be respected for
its historic nods to original UK acts such as Pink Floyd and their
imitators.This is the second
such album that I have reviewed this month.I guess that it’s become trendy
again.Even so, Transfigured
Night was recorded between ’96 and ’97.It’s nice to see them following through with the
original project to it’s fruition.That alone should command respect, especially
during a time when electronic music has become the meat and
potatoes of the industry.Finely
tuned prog acid rock from a duo that is on their way to a
goldmine.Zero Hour Records, 14
West 23rd Street, Fourth Floor, New York, NY 10010
--Richard T
Thurston
Ebeling Hughes - "Transfigured Night" (Zero Hour 1998,
ZER CD 1240)
From Aural Innovations #4 (October 1998)
Ebeling
Hughes are, well, Ebeling and Hughes.Bob and Charles, respectively, that
is.Specifically, a duo of
multi-instrumentalists from Detroit, Michigan that derive their
inspiration (don't we all?) from 70's masters Pink Floyd and the
like.Oddly, Ebeling got his
start working on albums by rapper Kid Rock, a friend from high
school days.Once he'd gained
valuable experience in the music studio, which I suspect he now
considers a laboratory, Ebeling Hughes was born in order to create
experimental mood music in the psychedelic/space
realm.An early four-track
cassette simply entitled "Space" was then followed up by the 1996
full-length debut "The Little Bugs Glow."Now comes "Transfigured Night," a 14-track journey
into the world of texture and sonic experimentation.
Heavy,
synthetic-sounding bass and broad organ tones from Hughes provide
the tapestry for the opening track 'Transfigured,' which turns out
in the end to be one of the strongest tunes.Hughes also provides the vocals, normally softly
delivered in a slick, pseudo-Britpop manner, as you discover during
the next track, 'Butterfly,' which is reminiscent of No-Man (the
one with Porcupine Tree's Steve Wilson).Here we hear Ebeling's acoustic guitar (revisited
often) and some really boomy bass sounds.Like many tracks to come, this song has the feel of
Floyd's "Obscured by Clouds" album, one that I quite like despite
it's stifled tempo.Unfortunately, most tracks on 'Transfigured Night'
are irreparably spoiled by plodding pace.Ebeling's drumming accurately keeps the time and
provides dimension to the sonic extravagancy, but mostly it reminds
the listener just how slow we're moving forward.
Things don't
really pick up until late in the album with 'Twinkle Little Star,'
a melodic track with soothing vocals and harmonizing
Turtles-style.'Please Thank
You' then provides some highlights with phased guitars, synths, and
effects, recalling Steve Hillage at his best, but it's all too
brief as this one is only two minutes long.The album's best song is the finale 'Night,' a
quicker, heavily-syncopated instrumental piece, with more of that
great boomy bass and thick swashes of synth.All-in-all, this is an album heavy on the
experimental side with loads of studio wizardry and slick
production, but lacking enough substance in the music to support it
all.Perhaps, as in the case of
Alan Parsons, the future of Ebeling and Hughes is in engineering
and production rather than as performing artists (although I could
imagine success in the film soundtrack arena).And I say that recognizing that Bob Ebeling did
just that on the latest album by fellow Motor City madmen Walk on
Water, reviewed here also.
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