Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

V/A – Blank Field
Blank Field brings together the works of various sound and noise artist including Merzbow, Daniel Menche, Oren Ambarchi etc. The tracks are taken from live recordings made during the Francisco Lŏpez curated Festive of the same name, which are then cleverly and almost seamless edited together by Lŏpez giving it a feel of one big environment or piece. Though each piece is clearly different from each other, they seem like chapters of a book, each telling it’s own related tale, so the title of Blank Field seems wondefully apt.

David Papapostolou – One And Two
This is improviser and sound artist David Papapostolou first cd releaser, offering up 3 tracks of improvised music utilizing acoustic guitar, Cello and Soprano Sax. All of the tracks seems heavy with world weary hazy, like watching figures move off across a iced white landscape.

Praxionscope – Epoconixarp
This ltd release is a collaboration between one half of My Cat is an Alien Robert Opalio and Ramona Ponzini of Painting Petals On Planet Ghost. It Finds the pair investigating more earth bound and richly mediative structures than My Cat Is an Alien.

Negură Bunget – Om
Black metal has often had spiritual yearnings, an affliction with dark natural and grim black gods, that’s present in nearly every black metal project you can think of to lesser or larger extent. With Om Negură Bunget have brought these spiritual tendency to new epic levels, making an album that still at is heart is black metal ,but sprouts its black roots off into many other genres.

Mothboy – Deviance
Mothboy adds all manner of atmospheric cinematics, experimental edges and varied vocals to his jacked up and dance heavy electroinca. Making what seems on first playing to be quite pop based ,a lot darker and experimental monster the deeper you get into it. And that’s the thing that makes this different and interesting is it concentrate on both your feet and your mind.

BenoÄ­t Piouland – Précis
Précis mixes folk rock with electroincia and pop elements to varying effect- some tracks seem to click and run just fine, others seem to muddled and strained. Sadly the problem is Benoĭt Piouland often doesn’t know where to stop with adding of sounds, leavening a few tracks sounding frankly messy and overbearing.