Re: [microsound] dean roberts

[Oeivind Idsoe <ezueled@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip Sherburne wrote:

> Augh!  I've done it again.  In atonement, then:
>
> The new Dean Roberts on Ritornell is quite something.  I'm a big fan of his
> work in Thela, though I never heard his "All Cracked Media."  This one, "And
> the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema," in addition to having a wonderful
> title, is full of thrummed guitar, scattered percussion, and glitch-ridden
> electronic overlays.  I'm not sure how I feel about the vocal components,
> but perhaps they'll grow on me.  At just 2 long tracks, there's a lot of
> digesting to be done here.

I agree 100% with this. I got my copy a week ago and it´s a terrific CD.
Rattling and rustling sounds combined with lots of debris from guitars, drums,
vocals etc. I also love his All Cracked Medias release on Mille Plateaux, so I
guess I´m a bit of fan.

I actually like the vocals. What´s fascinating about this record is how it more
or less morphs from "abstraction" to a kind of pop/rock setting (although
pop/rock from a world different from ours) and then back to deconstructing the
previous proceedings into abstraction again. Not sure if the Derridas would be
proud, not even sure if they care, but it´s some achievement. And the
production is excellent.

I also got Autopoieses live CD on Ritornell (Live À Noir)...and it´s equally
great. Only fragments of La Vie À Noir (on MP) remain, as the crackling,
glitching, sliding and whirring grains that surrounded the musical slices of
reality from La Vie now seems to have taken almost completely over.

(btw, going to watch Supersilent live tonight...not necessarily microsound
(although there are moments), but I think it´ll be amazing)

/Oeivind/

n.p.  my roomies too loud, too annoying CD of Norwegian folk-sax music of some
kind.