"121 Normal" CD - Glenn Poorman

Review by John EdmondsI sat spellbound one recent evening in a small-town theater watching an indie Hycam film scored with the haunting wails of Alan Parsons' "Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32." The very next day I received my long-awaited copy of Stickist and multi-instrumentalist Glenn Poorman's album 121normal.Maybe it was coincidence, but it felt like synchronicity after Parsons' long-forgotten I Robot had filled my head through the night. While Parsons and Poorman have distinctly different styles — in fact the two albums sound very little alike — their works share a vibe of quiet and harmonious dissent, a dark commentary in sweet lullaby's clothing. So it makes some sense that these two energies have cycled around in almost Saturnian timing.I hadn't heard the soaring strains and rumbling machinery of the Parsons album in nearly 20 years, a period during which Poorman was developing a sequence of his own studios, songs, tracks, loops, and other musical visions. Now, after more than two decades,