Icicle Blue Avalanche rolls over the listener with extraordinary, sculpted sounds. The collection features both electroacoustic studio works and solo electric/MIDI guitar and live electronics.
What the critics say:
“Earsay hits a new high with John Oliver’s Icicle Blue Avalanche, one of the most viscerally dramatic discs I’ve heard in quite a while…huge slabs of extremely solid music.”
– Splendidezine.com
“Repeated listening…reveals some limpid melodic lines floating above unusual harmonic progressions, and occasional touches of humour.”
– The Georgia Straight
“…shimmering bells of guitar, softly growling guitar.”
– Musicworks
“John Oliver’s Icicle Blue Avalanche proves true to his concept of “immersive music.” He accomplishes this through a collage of musical approaches, the results being a kind of melodic dissonance and, at other times, ambient dissonance. The guitar playing is excellent and perfectly complemented by the atmospheric drones, bass and other tones.”
– Paul A. Toth, Violent Contradiction