Maurizio Bianchi/Land Use - Psychoneurose


Manifold Records mancd046

The Italian master of avant-garde noise released a new CD and this time it is a collaboration between him and the Dutch Land Use.

Three long tracks, 21, 25 and 16 minutes playing time, describe the power of the sound as trigger to the psyche. Relaxing ambience, complex noises and atonal 'constructions' are exchanged and create a thrillingly intriguing and inspiring audioscape.

'Cerebrum' is a track which reminds a bit on how things would sound if Anenzephalia would be more ambient oriented, combined with slight Swedish influences from Camp Coldmeat. 'Neurotropismo' is more something for the admirers of the somewhat massive piece (think Merzbow). But the track that really dots this releases 'i' must be 'Frequenz N', a drone so filled with layers and filter modulations that it keeps on surprising, no matter how often you've played it before.

The fact that M.B. is a good composer most people who have their roots in noise avant-garde already knew, but that fact that Land Use is a name we'll have to remember in the near future has been this releases revelation. Now all we can do is wait for the firstborn under his own name.

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