Cakewalk
- Wired (Hubro)
Cakewalk is a Norwegian improvisational power trio,
comprising: Oystein Skar - synths, Stephan Meidell – guitar and bass and Ivar
Loe Bjornstad – drums. Like many improv musicians they like to rid
themselves of the reassurance of any comfort blanket , which means that between
them they work, or have worked, with a myriad of other artists and groups
including Sacred Heart, Highasakite, the Sweetest Thrill, Hedvig Mollestad Trio,
Glow, Krachmacher, Vanilla Riot and the Hilde Marje Kjersem Band.
For their debut they attack the tunes with a sparing
but rugged and hard-hitting approach, which splutters with electronic turmoil
with krautrock and post-rock both asserting their obvious influence.
To take you on a guided tour:
The calculated bass / drum groove of “Glass” houses
stabs of freely angular guitar, caustic modulations and simple synth phrases of
the horror soundtrack then from the sawn cymbal and grimy droned intro of “Descent”
it’s step after step down into Hades. The intensity and claustrophobia
exhibited in “Soil” encapsulates the feeling that one would have if they
resigned themselves to being buried alive and the suicidal endurance of “Perpetual”
pits its brutal wits against Sonic Youth psych-drone guitar abstractions.
The title track is an Amphetamine fuelled free-jazz / post-punk frenzy and
then, from its two chord drawl draped over a muffled claxon beginnings, “Kammer”
draws us to an almost anthemic close.
Willsk
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