Sound on Probation
For a lengthy description of what this album is all about, the best thing to do is to check the website where it is all explained. Yes, a good review would tell a bit more about Gianluca Becuzzi aka Kinetix or Laurent Perrier aka Pylône, but if it's all written there for you, why would I be the one regurgitating that information for you?
There is something way more important about this split-release or maybe collaboration between these artists. And that is the fact that it emphasizes the difference between a conceptual approach to soundart and the emotional side. And exactly that is what makes this release an intruiging item to listen to.
The first two tracks measure exactly 20 minutes each, but the sounds used in the first track slowly find a place in the second, so one could also see it as a 40 minute composition by Kinetix. Two other albums by him have been reviewed earlier by me and these tracks seem to be way more guided by emotion then by concept. Deep rumblings are combined with microscopic sounds, resulting in a tension filled combination of ambience, drones, vocal experiment and electro-acoustics. At moments mesmerizing and at other moments dadaistic in origin.
After 40 minutes the canvas goes to Laurent Perrier and he continues the painting. The composition is also made from drones, ambience, experiments and electro acousitc experiments. And also the 4 tracks by Pylône should and can be listened as one long 32-minute track.
But even though Laurent is an different 'painter', the output of both artists are very well "in sync". It is a work of two artists who are obviously 'inspired' by each other, or at least 'intrigued'.
'Sonology' is an album for people who are fed up with listening to the obvious; It triggers your mind and what's more important, the CD has a high re-listenability rate. With other words, with each time you listen, or each different place you play it, you hear different aspects of its complexity.
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