AFE Records, Boring Machines, Fratto9 Under The Sky Records
If you haven't heard from Andrea Marutti by now, you should be a little bit ashamed. He's not only the man behind Amon, but he is also responsible for the quite impressive roster of the Italian AFE Records. Fausto Balbo on the other hand is maybe a new name for you - as he was for me too. After fifteen years of making music apart from each other, their paths crossed in 2005 and since then they have been working every now and then on this release. Please note that "every now and then" in this case means: very intense with week-long sessions in both studios.
The CD "Detrimental Dialogue" is their first collaboration and it contains explorations of various types of analogue and digital synthesis. If you aren't introduced yet to that part of experimentalism: "Yes there is more then 'just' analog or digital". A quote from the promo: additive, subtractive, Physical Modeling, FM, Phase Distortion, Granular, etc.
The 48 minutes playing-time are divided into 4 tracks entitled 'Winter', 'Indulge me', 'Set-Back' and 'Troubled Elephant' and with the best will in the world I couldn't explain these titles to you. But rest assured that while listening to these tracks I have tried to find out about them.
The drones and ambient parts are slowly fading you in and out (an uncertain state) of consciousness, while the intrusive experiments in minimal noise, glitch and pure waveforms rip you out of there and force you to feel the here, the now and reality; This latter in all its beauty and confrontational aspects.
Through the use of effects the sounds that are used this album - and then mainly those noisy escapades - are put into a really nice perspective. The stereo image as well as the depth got an exceptional extra dimension, which makes the album as a whole interesting for a) modular sound nerds (you know who you are) and b) people who want to hear prove that there is more then your mind can handle.
It's going straight into my collection, next to Robert Piotrowicz' "Lasting Clinamen" and the additional mini-poster with the music making aliens and insect-shaped speakers by Stefano 'Sicksoul' Rossetti is getting an honorary place on my studio wall. For inspirational purposes ... Or just to space out ;-)
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