Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

John Wiese – Soft Punk
Soft Punk finds Mr Wiese delving into all facets of his sound from his solo work to his work with Sissy Spacek and beyond. Building a jolting, adrenaline filled and textural rich ride, that also dips into more atmospheric and introspective sound valleys along the way.

Acid Mothers Temple – Crystal Rainbow Pyramid under the Stars
Crystal Rainbow Pyramid under the Stars finds AMT sounding at their most confident, professional and focused possible in their whole prolific career. Offering up three tracks of psychedelic space rock, meets folk meets jazz that are spread over just over an hours running time.

Cherry Blossoms – Cherry Blossoms
This self titled CDR (a little confusing because their latest LP is also self titled) is a lo-fi document of a collective of as many as eight members, in this case including Josephine Foster on a couple of tracks. As one would expect there’s largely a folk element to this music, but for the most part it’s anything but traditional.

WoO – Mobi Rock
Mobi Rock consists of music generated from two guitars, presumably of the table-top and standard variety, shitloads of effects pedals, computer enhancement, mobile phones, remote controllers and “small devices”, whatever that means. WoO is aparently one man (there’s no name credit anywhere), and that’s cool. Whover WoO is, they deserve to be recognized for their ear for both melody and noise.

Strategy – Future Rock
The first track of Future Rock, Can’t Roll Back, is seemingly an ironic statement. The lyrics repeat the line “Can’t roll forward looking over your shoulder”, yet Future Rock, at least to my ears, is not an album that looks forward. The music is a melange of old school dance music of varying styles. Mostly, it has a mellow vibe, with dubby echo production and whispered vocals. It has a hazy quality, which gives it uniformity, even as the pace changes.

Jorma Tapio & Terje Isungset – Aihki
Aihki is the first duo recording for Jorma Tapio, of Finland and Norway’s Terje Isungset. Jorma Tapio is credited with flutes, bell, voice, kantele and percussion, and he is chiefly known for his woodwind work. Terje Isungset is a long established percussionist, known for making his own instruments. Recently, he released an album consisting of music made entirely from instruments fashioned entirely from ice.