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«There's a moment about a minute and a half before the close of DOPO's track "For the Entrance of the Sun (Pt. I)" when a bit of feedback peaks out, glistening and razor sharp. That snap breaks open the group's droney, folksy, communal music to reveal its darker operating principle. Electric instruments are nothing new to folk music, no more so than is the psychedelic imagery DOPO embraces. But the five-person DOPO takes its electrical charge seriously, dancing with that power. The snap in question hints at the way that gentle sounds can be found, in time, to have hidden deeper impulses. Here are eight tracks of magical, trance-inducing music, less composition than rituals, and each one of them keeps a meditative state at bay by summoning the power of that electrical charge. Sometimes it is literal, as on "Horses Running Towards the South," with its serrated halo of woozily strummed guitar, and "All the Mountains Are Dancing," which has more than its share of chord shards. Those sparks bring a certain friction to the cycling percussion, slacker rhythms and junk-pile arrangements that are DOPO's stock in trade. The most trenchant pieces on Entrance, though, like "17 Ways to Kill a Man" and "Time Floats by the Window," manage to separate that electrical power from its source. They jettison the objective specificity of an individual instrument and emphasize the tonal purity of amplification. In this environment, a bit of feedback isn’t a mistake; it’s a quick flash of insight.» - Marc Weidenbaum
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Daniel Catarino, 19-1-2007
o sol chega com uma flauta desafinada, ao som da qual uma prostituta exótica se bamboleia vertiginosamente. uma introdução simples, mas bem explanativa do que se irá passar nos próximos 48 minutos. do deserto de "exotica whores", passamos para as montanhas dançantes de um lugar desconhecido, e caminhamos agora numa marcha lenta para o oriente. a música dos DOPO poderia ter sido feita do outro lado do mundo, há todo um sentimento contemplativo, uma paciência que nos faz aguardar, complacentes, pelo crescimento de cada tema. no entanto, e quando pensamos que a fotografia do álbum está já tirada, eis que a viagem nós traz de volta ao nosso mundo, ao pós-modernismo ocidental e urbano com "Here in the day's after-glow". é aqui que a world music se começa, suavemente, a unir ao pós-rock. "Horses Running Towards the South", com uma tonalidade muito próxima dos godspeed you black emperor!, antecede um interlúdio nesta fase mais negra do álbum, em que o sol volta a brilhar, mas apenas para nos iludir, apenas para nos introduzir "17 ways to kill a man", novo exercício de paciência e respiração, final perfeito para esta viagem..
     
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