Arvio

This album travels somewhere on the field between free jazz and post-industrial. The foremost instrument, a sax, in turn annoys and entertains, as do the more industrial backgrounds. The label describes the result with the phrase "most disoriented, freeforming hand crafted live noise with no comparisons". Which is quite accurate, as this stuff does not resemble even typical saxophone noise. On the other hand, this is not even "noise" as far as genre concepts are concerned, but rather rhythmic, pulsating backgrounds, soundscaping and sax melodies that progress in short pieces. If I had to genre categorize this at the start, I'd call it jazz ambient - good jazz ambient. But after 15 minutes everything changes: the music turns into real, direct, treble-favoring noise - which, in turn, later becomes hypnotic Eastern rhythms. The same thing continues on the second track which is highly reminiscent of Sleeping With The Earth. First there is saturated sound atop a splintering background, then a distant pounding beat and some distortion, and finally a move through noise ambient on to heavy electronics.

This band's music lives in a way words can not truly describe. And it does that well. This is definitely an album worth checking out.

Jiituomas

Composers Dearest - s/t

Tässä mennään nyt jossakin hyvin vapaamuotoisen jazzin ja post-industrailin välimaastossa. Päällä oleva saksofoni vuorotellen ärsyttää ja viihdyttää, samoin teollisemmat taustat. Julkaisija kuvaa tuotosta fraasilla "most disoriented, freeforming hand crafted live noise with no comparisons". Ja osuu varsin oikeaan, sillä tässä ei liikuta edes tyypillisen foni-noisen alueella. Toisaalta, ei tässä kyllä edes noisesta - siis genrenä - ole kyse.	Artisti: Composers Dearest Formaatti: CD-R Levy-yhtiö: Composers Dearest Julkaisuvuosi: 2007 Kokonaiskesto: 34:42 Kappaleita: 2
Rytmistä, sykkivää taustaa, pieninä paloina kehittyviä melodioita saksofonilla ja maalailua. Jos minä heti alusta genrettäisin tämän, se olisi jazz-ambientia. Hyvää jazz-ambientia. Yllättäen kaikki kuitenkin muuttuu: vartin kohdalla siirrytään ihan rehellisen, suoraviivaiseen ja diskanttivoittoiseen noiseen - joka sitten muokataan hypnoottisiksi aasialaisrytmeiksi. Sleeping With The Earthin voimakkasti mieleen tuovalla kakkosraidalla sama meno jatkuu: Ensin kyllästettyä ääntä katkoisan taustan päällä, sitten kaukana hakkaava biitti ja säröä, ja lopulta liike noiseambientin kautta raskaselektroniikkaan. Yhtyeen musiikki elää tavalla jota sen palasten kuvaaminen ei oikeasti välitä. Ja tekee sen hyvin. Ehdottomasti tutustumisen arvoinen teos. Jiituomas

Takaisin - Kokoelmat - A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V - W - Demot

This album travels somewhere on the field between free jazz and post-industrial. The foremost instrument, a sax, in turn annoys and entertains, as do the more industrial backgrounds. The label describes the result with the phrase "most disoriented, freeforming hand crafted live noise with no comparisons". Which is quite accurate, as this stuff does not resemble even typical saxophone noise. On the other hand, this is not even "noise" as far as genre concepts are concerned, but rather rhythmic, pulsating backgrounds, soundscaping and sax melodies that progress in short pieces. If I had to genre categorize this at the start, I'd call it jazz ambient - good jazz ambient. But after 15 minutes everything changes: the music turns into real, direct, treble-favoring noise - which, in turn, later becomes hypnotic Eastern rhythms. The same thing continues on the second track which is highly reminiscent of Sleeping With The Earth. First there is saturated sound atop a splintering background, then a distant pounding beat and some distortion, and finally a move through noise ambient on to heavy electronics. This band's music lives in a way words can not truly describe. And it does that well. This is definitely an album worth checking out. Jiituomas