MACHINIST - Viens Avec Moi Dans Le Vide (CDR by Beton Toon)
Caves aren't exactly the things you find in The Netherlands, but Machinist make cave like music. Machinist is Zeno van den Broek from Rotterdam and since 2005 he has released a couple of CDRs and played a few selected concerts. On this new release he gets help from Sven Schlijper who recites a text and Elleke Bosma, who plays cello on two tracks. As said cave music, by which mean music that is very, very dark (as in no light), but also using the reverb of caves. I believe to be hearing - although not entirely sure - lots of heavily processed guitars, even more electronics, some field recordings and a fair amount of dark percussive sounds. Despite what it says on the press release '... opens up the auditory point of view of the listener at an open and wide panoramic vista of emotions with a sharp focus on the horizon', I hear perhaps something else. This is music from a claustrophobic point. Hermetically closed, grey/black landscape music. Having said that, its not a judgment or a negative qualification per se. It might not be entirely my cup of coffee, this kind of music (being too black, grim and hinting towards things I don't care about - maybe a bit too gothic?), I can see that Machinist plays his music with great care. Its excellently produced, the individual compositions are kept into a great time frame and calls the dark beast out its hole. Its about time he moved to doing real CDs, I'd say. (FdW)
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