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Origami Replika/Kapotte Muziek: Metamusikk
CD - Ichor Recordings, Canada - 1999
Reviews:
ORIGAMI REPLIKA & KAPOTTE MUZIEK - METAMUSIKK (CD by Ichor)
Dissections of directions abound, and this disc is well named: what do you do
after music (and not just *your* music) is out there? Try ripping its heart out
= Metamusikk. The first four tracks ('1242', '821', '520' and '746') are from a
three hour 'live room recording' by Lasse Marhaug and Tore H Boe from '97, with
no overdubs allowed to sully the proceedings. And the cast list reads like a
dream: 6 speakers, 2 portable stereo component systems, 1 dictaphone, 1 record
player, 2 effect boxes, 4 trash microphones, 9 prerecorded cassettes, 1 'History
Is What Was' LP, 1 'Malevolent Ear' CD, 1 'Gilles de Rais' MC, 1 'Static Lines'
MC, 3 sounds of tearing out magnetic tape, 1 tapesax, 3 additional vocals, 1
camera and 1 carpet. Don't you love recordings that feature floor coverings?
'1242' is dense, 'old school' noise, the sound mirror of one of the inner photos
of tape being dragged from a cassette body and perhaps too long in its
bombarding. '812' is like Aube on valium and a much more rewarding listen. The
remaining live tracks continue in the same organic, grainy looping/slipping
vein, no individual sound recognisable in tribute to the all-embracing nature of
the regurgitation process. Glints of light are occasionally evident in the murk
although not often. '1227' is a claustrophobic studio remix by Tore H Boe two
years later and much more detailed, although darker still, reminding me even
more of the Eraserhead soundtrack. On this you can hear the guts of the magnetic
tapes being ripped. The ultimate recycling project, Kapotte Muziek, brings
proceedings to a heady close with '1101', a metarecycling of Kapotte Muziek 97
and a wonderful distillation and expansion of the whole process, somehow
entirely in keeping with the intentions of the Replika material, yet completely
distinct too. A great finish to a disc for lovers of the raw fundaments
(literally) of noise.
(BL, Vital Weekly) |
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