Red is the debut full-length album by Symbion Project, a.k.a. Kasson Crooker

Kasson Crooker

Kasson Crooker is an American electronic musician, composer, and the artist behind Symbion Project, his solo moniker. He also works collaboratively in The Planets Won't Let You Sleep Tonight and his past bands are Freezepop, Splashdown, Larkspur, and Sirensong...

. Released in 1997

1997 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.-January:*January 9 – David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy...

, Red contains a collection of songs conceived as early as 1992. The mostly instrumental album includes a mixture of downtempo, techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

, and ambient songs, and many tracks feature Middle East

Middle East

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ern overtones. "Only Girls Like to Gossip" became the foundation for the future Splashdown

Splashdown (band)

Splashdown, formed in Allston, Massachusetts, in 1996, was an American pop rock band. The group disbanded in 2001; their last show was at the release party for the debut CD of Freezepop on February 2 of that year. Splashdown gained a small but extremely loyal following in the Northeast United...

song "Waterbead".

Track listing

1 :: Thesis

2 :: Tcejorp Noibmys

3 :: The Lips Acquire Stains

4 :: Only Girls Like to Gossip

5 :: Music for 2001

6 :: The Infinite Number of Truthes That Remain to be Discovered

7 :: Desert/Oasis

8 :: Water of Life

9 :: Synthetic

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