\ / | ----- /\ | \ / |== |== | / | \ / Week 42 \ / | | / \ | \ /\ / | | |/ | \ / Number 99 \/ | | / \ |--- \/ \/ |__ |__ |\ |__ | BRUME & NOMUZIC - TRANSPORTS (CD by Cheeses International) Two masters team up. Transports not of equipment, but the exchange of music by mail. Brume is known for doing anything with sound but not with synthesizers or samplers and Nomuzic on the other does everything with the analog and digital keyboards. The 15 pieces are rather short and most of them swirl around like a thick mass of sound in which one can sometimes recognize drum patterns, metallic percussion sounds etc. This is not an easy CD to digest - I had to play this many times before capturing the beauty. Maybe it's because the sound is so thick and there is much going on a mostly the same dynamic level. But as said: there is a lot going on and there is beauty to be discovered by the careful listener. (FdW) Address: 783a Christchurch Road - Bournemouth - Dorset - UK BH7 6AW NOMEX & SCUD - EUROSTAR (7" by Maschinenbau) After Nomex first vinyl treat (the sound of a needle on a recordsurface), here comes his next musical conception. One side uses 'the sound of a Eurostar train engine as source material' and the flip 'produced using recordings of a piling machine situated in the middle of the river Thames'. The a-side starts out indeed with a sort of train sound, but is intercepted by a rhythmbox that will drive a longside the continious train noise. I liked it more at 33 rpm, because the drum & bass is better on it, because that's part of the dish too. Strange record and if there is a story told, I may miss it. But it is a wacky record. The 'Piling Machine' is a steady bonking machine beat with whistles and with 3 times the interception of old type gramophone music. Again - I think I miss a point, but there is something nice about it. Very industrial I'd say. (FdW) Address: BM Fuzz - London WC1N 3XX MAIN - DELIQUESCENCE (CD by Beggars Banquet) Anyone who buys a piece of CD every once in a while, or who is a dedicated follower of some musical act, may wonder why there exists something like a live album. Alright in the improv scene it is a common thing to collect the memory of a special event with people who would otherwise not play together. But in rock music it is usually the thing to keep the fan happy while waiting for the next studio album. As Main is not the standard rock band, but do reside on a rock label, maybe they had this contractul filler. This album was recorded in june at the beautiful Musiques Ultimes festival in Nevers. As I have never experienced a concert by Main, I can't really judge wether this is the capturing of a unique event, not to be repeated anywhere else. But listening to it, I doubt it. It sounds very much like anything of a normal Main studio album. And they are usually quite good. Somehow it is in my brain that this is nothing special. But maybe that is something I would like to think... what if this was the next studio album? Anyway, this is by Main standards a regular album - not particularly good, but not bad either. Taken the fact that it is the live album it may seem a little bit too much. (FdW) MAEROR TRI - EMITONAL ENGRAMM (CD by Iris Light) What a bummer it is listening to this CD! Not that it is bad CD - au contraire! This CD has the final studio recordings by this most promising German trio who split up about a year ago for personal reasons. This CD shows their most mature studio recordings to date. It leaves us guessing were they could have gone if they wouldn't have stopped the show... If you are a newcomer to this: Maeror Tri produce music for the creative part of the brain. Hugh walls of droning sounds, processed guitar and gongs, never getting below the audible range (like other gong players sometimes did), drenched in a bath of effects. This music which simulates you while working through your day. This music is like a drug: it will have a great impact on the mind. But in a much more positive way. Cherrisch the Maeror Tri's available. And don't be sad. (FdW) Address: Vital Weekly is published by Frans de Waard and submitted for free to anybody with an e-mail address. If you don't wish to receive this, then let us know. Any feedback is welcome . Forward to your allies. Snail mail: Frans de Waard - P.O.Box 11453 - 1001 GL Amsterdam - The Netherlands All written by Frans de Waard (FdW), The Square Root Of Sub (MP), Ching-Chong Jing-Jong (CP), Radboud Mens (RM), Sister Clika (RTH), BAraka[H], (BAR), Howard Stelzer (HS) webpage: www.staalplaat.com -- Vital Weekly is published by Frans de Waard and submitted for free to anybody with an e-mail address. If you don't wish to receive this, then let us know. Any feedback is welcome . Forward to your allies. 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