Seven tracks, totalling 34 minutes, are on this CD. It’s a tad bit on the short side if you write it down like this, but because of the intensity of the music, it’s not really a problem. After 34 minutes, you either play it again because you’re puzzled about the stuff you just heard, or … You are so agitated by these compositions that you save the next spin after a cool-down session with deep ambient or minimal drones of your choice.
The album is a symbiosis of rhythm/percussion and electronic sounds. The tracks are merely numbered, so what I can do for you is take you on the journey I’m going through right now. (1) opens with a very minimal rhythmic structure, whereas (2) brings you to the English landscape created by rhythms not unlike the ones Test Dept did in their glory days. Then then, there is the flow of (3) and (4), which can only be described as a beautiful drone becoming pure noise. The combination is really beautiful, with an amazing progression of intensity.
The 55-second (5) is a little play with singular waves resulting in lovely modulation patterns, whereas (6) seems to experiment with looping non-percussive use of percussive instruments, also, with a fair dose of electronics, of course. The final part continues where the previous one left off. It’s the longest track on here, playing for a little over 14 minutes, so it’s almost half of the album. But ‘Oh My’ – insert a heavy George Takei voice here – this is such a beautiful track. The slow building up, including tribal, predominantly African rhythms and chanting manipulated voices/samples… If there ever was a track that could be in the encyclopedia as an explanation for ‘how music can get you into a trance’, The 7th part of “Myotis V” might well be one of the listed tracks. Too long for the podcast, sadly, and just a fragment of this track will not do it justice.
A final word on the label is that another album was released a year ago. That one has music by Anthony Laguerre combined with words by G.W. Sok, who we Dutchies know for being the singer for 30 years of a band called The Ex. Consider me intrigued!
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