Last week we had reviews on a new CD of Guido Hübner's Das Synthetische Mischgewebe on Tribe Tapes and a DAT by Roel Meelkop on NDWICM. And this week - surprise, surprise - a collaboration by these guys. Unknown, at least for me, Flag Day Recordings, based in West Virginia, focuses on experimental music, noise, ambient, drone and such, and this release probably fits their roster very well. And that's it for what I can write about the 'obvious' ...
"Violence Against The Evidence" is a 40-minute track which travels all over the place. It has moments with minimal droney sounds; there are moments where the composition screams electroacoustics and other moments which are textbook musique concrète. There isn't a dull moment on this album, but it is very intensive listening, as you can imagine.
The inside of the CD cover mentions six parts, or three, I haven't decided yet. "Disentanglement (Insane)" (part 1-3), "Implicit Bias" and "Disentanglement (Outsane)" #5 and #6. These can be parts of the composition, but they can also be the names of the different pieces of art on the cover. I can't tell you. And next to that, the cover mentions Roel on analogue modular synthesizer and Guido: acoustic assemblages. Does this mean that Guido recorded sounds which Roel manipulated? Or that Roel made sounds which were mixed into a composition by Guido? And there you have the beauty of experimental music. Does it really matter at all when you're able to listen to it multiple times, and you're still amazed by what you hear and what it does to you?
There are moments within the composition that I would have liked to last longer, but my taste is to drone away on sound waves. Concerning that fact, it's quite an erratic composition, but this one scores high when it comes to sounds and intriguement.
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