Cronica 019-2005
This on the Portugese Cronica released CD holds the live recordings of Freiband and Boca Raton as recorded on the Earational Festival 2004 which took place in Den Bosch, Holland.
Freiband starts off under the title Replay. To many of you a new name, but the man behind the project is no other then Frans de Waard, musically known from amongst others Kapotte Muziek and Beequeen, verbally active with the Vital Weekly and once the man behind Staalplaat.
With this project an old chapter in the book of experimental music is rewritten. Where the original text was based on the tape-experiments of Asmus Tietchens is Freiband the digital entrepeneur of the genre. Next to that there are a lot of audible experiments with contactmics which on ocassion reminds you of the a live performance of Kapotte Muziek. The music reminds you of a mixture between glitch and noise, albeit in a subtle way. Every now and then ambient, minimal sculptures come forward and at other moments you can't find the right slide on your eqalizer fast enough.
The twelfth track on the CD is a 30 second silence which announces the Baco Raton performance. Boca Raton is Martijn Tellinga, an artist who works with synthetic as well as 'real' sounds and tries to find a balance between them. A mix where reality mirrors itself in to a synthetic truth.
Whereas the performance from Freiband was nicely coherent, the one from Boca Raton is much more dynamic. Silent pieces are changed with somewhat more noisy compositions and the result is just a bit less structured and less thought-off. It's not bad at all, but it leaves you longing for a studio album with a little more information then 10 (!) pages of pointer arrows. The performancetitle Crop and respective tracktitles Circle 1 to 8 don't add anything.
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