Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Jana Winderen – Heated
Drop a microphone down into a fault line, between rivers of bubbling earth and plates of ice grinding each other into snow, and you’d come up with something that sounds like Heated. Jana Winderen’s album for Touch, recorded live in Japan, was compiled from (according to the sleeve) a slew of sonorous location recordings in Greenland, Iceland and Norway.

Maurizio Bianchi / M.B. & Maor Appelbaum – Innervation
In recent years, experimental electronics veteran Maurizio Bianchi has teamed up with a guy named Maor Appelbaum numerous times, & churned out a good number of CDs of which this is actually the first I’ve heard. I’m no stranger to Bianchi, having enjoyed a good deal of his works, & have felt sorry for the dude for all the liberties taken with his work, yet Appelbaum is entirely new to me. For the past few years he’s steadily been releasing music under a variety of monikers, but he’s been flying under my radar, it seems; it’s not as if, with a name like that (apple tree, roughly), I wouldn’t have caught on – if only I’d known.

Ethernet – 144 Pulsations of Light
With a name like Ethernet (pesud. for one California native Tim Gray) and an album title like 144 Pulsations of Light, I was expecting a disc of spastic Aphex Twin glitch-hop. I was half-right: This could be a close cousin to Aphex Twin, but more the Twin of the Selected Ambient Works periods—which just happen to be favorites of mine.

Endometrium Cuntplow/Sunken Landscapes – Split
This is a split between two California based noise makers/ caustic Psychedelic mood setters in the shape of Endometrium Cuntplow & Sunken Landscapes. As the covers of comicbook picture of a Merman suggests there’s more than a little aquatic & sea bound feel to the sonics with-in this CDR.

Tissa Mawartyassari – Sigsaw
‘Sigaw’ offers up a live recording by Mexican HNW project Tissa Mawartyassari (aka Maria Velasquez-Soto) from a show in the Tilden Gallery in Houston Texas.

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