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Reviewed by:
Azriel J. Knight
Courtnee Fallon Papastathis, the young lady behind Not
Applicable started her music career at the young age of eight, and
began to sing shortly after. This Washington State resident managed to
pick up on instruments extremely quick and purely by ear, foregoing the
traditional methods of song education. By mid 1999 she has already had
experience in vocals, Piano, Keyboard, Recorder, Guitar, and then decided
to add a synthesizer to that list of talents. Fan mail has consisted of
comments such as . . .
"You lift the spirit, as if from beneath the
ground....thank you..."
"The percussion work is excellent and the
synth melodies are mellow with a trippy bassline and haunting vocals to
tie it all together."
"Your music and ideals show a lot of
depth"
Courtnee Papastathis basically writes her music in her spare
time, "to  unload." One of the results of this is Point of
Origin an ambient experience; fans of the genre will not want to
bypass this album.
Point
of Origin begins with My Brave Heart, which is simply
Courtnee's vocal's expressing the notes, a very original idea, for
a cover.
Convergence follows with basic melodic waves and
the beautiful voice of angelic proportions; you will not hear formed
words, but much more. "This song makes me cry" says Courtnee, ".
. . I guess you could say that it's really personal." It is evident
that Convergence speaks of sorrow over a loss but somehow the
melody is relaxing, metaphorically, this song can be compared to being
suspended under water, floating freely, weightless and
alone.
Threshold, track three. A very near gothic flavor,
but not quite. Most definitely darker than the previous tracks,
Courtnee's vocals have gone from angel to wandering spirit,
combined with the flowing music Threshold is quite haunting. Seven
and a half minutes of dejection expressed threw her lyrics that contain
not one word.
Preterition, my personal favorite is a song of
regret, loss, and poor mistakes "This song is for anyone who's ever
been taken for granted, stepped over, disregarded, used, abused,
mistreated, or generally wronged. Its a nice way of saying 'fuck you' to
whoever is or one day will be shit out of luck because you're gone."
Courtnee Explains.
Divergence and Infinite
Reality are tracks five and six. Divergence is  "A distant
cousin" of Convergence "a bit darker and much longer"
and Infinite Reality is an amazing experience and actually the
first original Not Applicable piece when Courtnee
Papastathis only had her synth gear for a very short while.
Infinite Reality, created in October of 1999 is amazing. It shows
that some people were definitely made to create music, a song, such as
this one is quite frankly it's own testimony.
Point of
Origin ends with where it began, with a remix of My Brave
Heart, bringing u back to the initial beauty of her vocals and an
upbeat trance like synth line.
Point of Origin is an album
of loss, the tunes are relaxing, yet sad, her voice, combined with the
ambiance will quite possibly place your emotions into a coma for the
duration of the entire album. For an album that has not one word, it still
seems to speak to you, the music has a way of speaking its message threw
the pitch and emotion in the vocals rather than poetry. Point of
Origin is the death of a loved one and the regret our minds ponder,
the things that are spiraling around our subconscious every day, Not
Applicable is a musical form of these.
Sources:
abcnews.com
notapplicable.org
Point
of Origin Available:
mp3.com
Websites:
mp3.com/not_applicable
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