\ / | ----- /\ | \ / |== |== | / | \ / Week 45 \ / | | / \ | \ /\ / | | |/ | \ / Number 102 \/ | | / \ |--- \/ \/ |__ |__ |\ |__ | ERIC LUNDE - WHEN YOU WISH UPON A SCAR (CD by Povertech) Now here is an old aquitence: About 8 to 10 years ago, Eric was top notch industrial musician, his work was not just music, but involved video, performance, writing and sculpting. Eric was a founding member of Boy Dirt Car and is now playing in a band called Inane. This CD is a collection of pieces reccorded between 1983 and 1991, and were previously released on cassettes and vinyl. It's quite interesting to hear all this music that one was so known with after all these years. There is a certain rawess captured here that is not seen too much nowadays. Take the 'sonic geography' inhabited in such pieces as Aztalan or the The Colorado Terrain Investigation. It is still as puzzling as it was then (what are they doing? just what is the goal of this investigation? etc.), but it is still intriguing. Piece de resistance is the full, over 22 minute, version of Tape Death Cut, from the split LP with Hands To. Here Eric Lunde is in his most refined state - using samples from his own work, reworked and eroded/decoded sound. If you are me (read: old), then you might like to hear some old stuff which may have collected a fair amount of dust. If you are young, but willing to seek out some recent history, this is a place to start. Address: FINAL - THE FIRST MILLIONTH OF A SECOND (CD by Manifold) Final belongs that particular wave of guitar players that play the guitar, but if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't know. Usually the six string sound is well hidde beneath a bath of samples and sound effects. The result is never aggressive or abrssive, but of simple beautiful... hey maybe ambient quality. Slowly melodies evolve, take shape and disappear. More then others in this area, Finals guitars and basses are actually to be heard on this one. This is what sets Final apart from the other isolationists (is that word dead by now?). What more should one add? Probably nothing, other then: yes, this is beautiful. (FdW) Address: DAVID KRISTIAN - CRICKLEWOOD (CD on alien8 recordings) Here's a reasonably great CD constructed from a gaggle of analogue machines by Canadian David Kristian, known to some for his drum'n bass releases on Discreet/Indiscreet and Dropbeat records. Most of the sounds on this new release were generated in real-time using conbtrol voltages derived from pitch material from other instruments. It was something of a strut back in time for me; the last I heard like this was the Michael Winnerholt CD on Multimood, which was a motley collection meandering of blips and blurps compared to fine, subtle constructions by David. The ghosts of composers and bands notyetdead dance jigs in Cricklewood, and despite separate tracks, this collection comes across as an almost symphonic piece. Nervous knocking slips into reversed reverberation...the Sonic lads from Pan on Valium, perhaps ? This slides into a semi-eastern, but almost certainly extraterrestial gong being pounded by insistent metallic flies. Footing now lost, I slip further into the oscillators, into my stirred memories of Morton Subotnick's 'Wild Bull','Silver Apples Of The Moon' and '4 Butterflies' of years ago. Soft subterralien murmurings precede the sound of something big being encouraged to fit through a space too small for it. Spurred on by a brief display of Star Wars synthesiser artillery we finally fall through the narrow seam into a gritty landscape. On the horizon a rising sine. A bold, eccentric sashay accompanies us to the edge of the end. Hmm, finely tuned and very carefully made music. A sense of peace. A piece of sense. (MP) Address: BASTIAN MARIS - LARGE HOT PIPE ORGAN (CD on Staalplaat) Here's a qote fro the CD cover: 'B.M's interest in machines, sound and violent processes has lead to an ongoing research in chemo-acoustic phenomena and the development of musical instruments based upon this priciple. In 1993, after four years of testing, this resulted in the creation of the Large Hot Pipe Organ.' The LHPO consists of twenty pretuned pipes with varying lengths and diameters and sound is produced by detonating propane-air mixtures within the pipes. The system is controlled by a customised programme enabling direct keyboard input. A sort of MIDI-to-explosion converter. Now, I was fortunate enough to experience Bastiaan's devices shortly after moving to Holland, and several times since then. In real-life-time they convey a dramatic sense of danger and spontaneity. In fact I feel they can only be appreciated this way... the CD recording, whilst lacking nothing in clarity fails dismally to represent the true power of these installation, and comes across as a slowed down recording of a bowl of Rice Crispies (that's Snap, Crackle and Pop to the uninitiated, or very young !). (MP) Address: ARCHON SATANI - THE FINAL COMPLETION (picture 10" by Cold Spring Records) This seems to be the final document by a group that is strongly linked with the so called 'Death-Industrial'-genre. The original group consisted of two members until 1993, when Tomas Petterson left to create his new project ORDO EQUILIBRIO. Mikael Stavoestrand, the other half, was working under the name INANNA solo (and he still is) and continued ARCHON SATANI on his own. The pieces here were recorded in 1996 (so, without Tomas) and are more 'ambient' than real 'death-Industrial' I think, as they are built mainly with low-frequent tribal drumming and haunting drones, which gets softer at the end and really spheric (Side A), whereas Side B begins very silent and suspenseful with very slow drums and gets more and more thick, although it never really turns into noise. The pieces are dark and brooding, but not as 'occult' as one would maybe expect. For me, this is the best ARCHON SATANI-work so far, and I hope INANNA will continue in the same area of sound. The picture-disc has a 'mystic' outfit and is limited to 500 copies. Not only recommendable for "fans" of the group. [BAR] 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. 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