Gravity’s
Drop Out - Tracks For Non-Existing Movies (Alrealon Musique)
At least the album title saves having to state the
music critique’s oft-cited cliché (“sounds like music for a film yet to be made”,
etc.) but the concept for this collection of experimenters is better
illuminated by the sleeve notes of producer, Robert L Pepper (PAS). They
detail how life should be expressed through sound and vision, rather than words,
that were previously used to describe them, but now tend to precede them.
Featuring PAS, Margitt Holzt, Herr Penschuck,
Ebinger, Nika Son and Thorsten Soltau, it’s for the listener to visualize the
music. This is no straight forward task owing to the dense, grating and
obscure textures, such as: Margitt Holzt’s “Bears Head” which takes the sound
of a skipping/jumping record - that would normally have the listener flying to
their feet to rectify – and forces it uncomfortably onto us before assailing us
further with lengthy industrial babblings and the atmospheric, angst laden,
piped drones of Herr Penschuck’s “The Drig Bift Transition”, which is set to
subtle locomotion. Nika Son does allows some timid and wobbly aural respite
between penetrating injections of dentistry and workshops on “Jöusan”
Perhaps the title “Tracks for Movies Never Likely to
be Made” may have been more appropriate!
Willsk
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