HR159 - Italy - C100 — 1989
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SIDE A:
SUBLIMINALE - THEE VITTOZ METHOD STEFANO BARBAN - AMANTIDE TEATRINO DELLA VOLPE - NEW INDUSTRIAL CRIME O NAUTIX - ROCK THE MUSSOLINIS BOYS MAJORANA - L'ANTI-DESTIN |
SIDE B:
DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE - AT MY THRONE & UNDER YOUR SHOES BLACK FLOWERS - IN THE MIND/FIRE EYES CRIME O NAUTIX - DER TELEPHON RINGELTE WOMB - FREQUENCY MODULATION/NO NOISE ABORTION MAJORANA - FAI 400 RESPIRI PRIMA DI UN GRAN BALZO IN AVANTI |
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
The Harsh Reality ‘Country’ series continues with Italy. We’ve got eight artists serving up a variety of experimental, collage, cut-up concoctions.
Subliminale contribute a minimal piece that sounds like I’m under a lone wind turbine in a field. As the sound evolves it becomes increasingly mechanized, eventually melting into a variably intense, windswept drone.
Stefano Barban’s entry starts off like the audio art equivalent of being present at a 5-alarm fire, which after a couple minutes morphs into a cascading, lysergically orchestral drone.
At 18 minutes, Teatrino Della Volpe’s contribution is the longest. It’s a cut-up/collage of African music, jazz, rock, orchestra, circus, funk, punk, and church music samples, all mashed up and juxtaposed as an abruptly and continuously rickety rhythmic stream.
Crime O Nautix chime in with two tracks. One is a stewpot of sloooow tape drag, quirky lo-fi music, drugged Captain Beefhearty vocals, demon cackles, jamming guitar, and other cool and strange sounds. The second takes an Indian or Arabian ethnic pop tune and adds goofy speech and distracting static.
Majorana also contribute two tracks. The first is another example of music samples - this one sounds like a 1950s movie soundtrack - put through the tape manipulating grinder. The second is much more creative and intense, performing unanesthetized cut-up surgery on a casserole of music, bangs, and other sundry sounds.
Das Synthetische Mischgewebe construct a rhythmically flowing hodgepodge of grinding and squealing metal, rattling chains, reverberating walls, and other miscellaneous clatter.
Black Flowers conjure up thoughts of Kraftwerk as a sci-fi Industrial band composing Halloween punk rock.
Finally, Womb lay down a quietly subtle collage scene of alien pulsations, buzzing, wavering drones, electronic tones, squalls, static, and more.
The Harsh Reality ‘Country’ series continues with Italy. We’ve got eight artists serving up a variety of experimental, collage, cut-up concoctions.
Subliminale contribute a minimal piece that sounds like I’m under a lone wind turbine in a field. As the sound evolves it becomes increasingly mechanized, eventually melting into a variably intense, windswept drone.
Stefano Barban’s entry starts off like the audio art equivalent of being present at a 5-alarm fire, which after a couple minutes morphs into a cascading, lysergically orchestral drone.
At 18 minutes, Teatrino Della Volpe’s contribution is the longest. It’s a cut-up/collage of African music, jazz, rock, orchestra, circus, funk, punk, and church music samples, all mashed up and juxtaposed as an abruptly and continuously rickety rhythmic stream.
Crime O Nautix chime in with two tracks. One is a stewpot of sloooow tape drag, quirky lo-fi music, drugged Captain Beefhearty vocals, demon cackles, jamming guitar, and other cool and strange sounds. The second takes an Indian or Arabian ethnic pop tune and adds goofy speech and distracting static.
Majorana also contribute two tracks. The first is another example of music samples - this one sounds like a 1950s movie soundtrack - put through the tape manipulating grinder. The second is much more creative and intense, performing unanesthetized cut-up surgery on a casserole of music, bangs, and other sundry sounds.
Das Synthetische Mischgewebe construct a rhythmically flowing hodgepodge of grinding and squealing metal, rattling chains, reverberating walls, and other miscellaneous clatter.
Black Flowers conjure up thoughts of Kraftwerk as a sci-fi Industrial band composing Halloween punk rock.
Finally, Womb lay down a quietly subtle collage scene of alien pulsations, buzzing, wavering drones, electronic tones, squalls, static, and more.