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Pierre Henry - Mouvement-Rythme-Étude - 16-Nov-07 04:27 AM
This piece of work should be absolutely re-discovered by the actual young electronica/braindance crowd, for it has all the same qualities you could expect from an Autechre or Pansonic record, but with really much more mastery and an higher sense of construction and drama.
This date back from 1970, and its obvious that it sound today as fresh and innovative than in the day of its première.
Pierre Henry has created here what would later be called electronica : weird minimal beats liberated out of groove and evolving through a life of their own, twisting around, rejuvenating themselves at each turn, and never giving the listener the opportunity to be lost or bored by these abstracted figures.
The sense of focus is incredible : it has a freshness and an immediacy that you could seek for a long time in most of the self-pretentious work of electronic/post-techno superstars.
This is not a conceptual work, this is music to live with.
Pierre Henry doesnt look here for a mere anti-rythmical posture, but rather he felt here the need to explore the arrythmic possibilities of rythm in its own right.

Luciano - Fourges Et Sabres - 05-Oct-07 08:18 AM
I longtime tought that Luciano was basically an interesting musician but as a producer he was remaining for me something like a less-talented Villalobos number 2. His lastest releases are proving me that i was wrong, and that he is a unique voice in his own right. And this Perlon release is a perfect place to fully experience his musical talent. Two great morphing tracks that take the listeners in an hypnotic mode suiting so perfectly to ears and body that the two times 15 mn of music just goes so easily like a mirage of vapor. This is a great challenge to make a music that is so extremely confortable & charming at the first drop while not being unsignificant. You can listen it a hundred times, you will allways be under this serpentine charm and youll never stop discovering new delights here and there in these two masterfull works.

Derek Bailey / Jamaaladeen Tacuma / Calvin Weston - Mirakle - 22-Jul-07 04:02 AM
This quite unusual association is one of the best "bad idea" producer John Zorn had in years. Unlike the missed encounters with d beats (on "Guitar, Drum & Bass" - Avant), this meeting beetwen the english improv guitar wizard and the now classic rythm section of Ornette Colemans Prime Time is an unbelievable moment of telepathic real time improvisation, theres not a single moment that failed in these 70 mn of music. Everyone is absolutely focused, and we have the joy to discover that the post webernesque guitar language of Derek Bailey is utterly funky !

John Zorn - Six Litanies For Heliogabalus - 21-Jul-07 12:38 PM
Naked City is alive !
Zorn returns here with a great taste of his freaky deconstructed heavy metal. Six highly constructed pieces that are not offering something really new, but take on and challenge his best works in this field ( "Grand Guignol" etc...), with the persistant drummer Joey Baron alongside the vocal mastery of Mike Patton suiting perfectly in the tracks led by Boredoms vocalist Yamatsuka Eye. In fact, Patton is Eye and reverse, this is just Zorn ability to let come out some of the most inhuman shrouds & screams you never thought able to produce.
Forget Fantômas, Patton can do what he wants but we allways come back to the roots, John Zorn is the undisputed master in the art of mixing metal with 50s bop lines and Bernard Herman vs Giacinto Scelsi weird classical madness.

Merzbow - Door Open At 8 AM - 21-Jul-07 06:16 AM
The best Merzbow release ever. Thought it can seemed strange to find a Merzbow record better than any other of billions records he has made, the fact is here. This one truly makes the difference, its more constructed, its more psychedelic, it has a real musical aspect that most of his works dont have, for the main reason that they are only chaotic noise.
This is also one of his last work using analog stuff, later he will turn to laptop, gaining in readability, but loosing this organic feeling that made most of the interest of his stuff. Here weve got the two. Great.

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