a r t i s t : Acustronic Ensemble
t i t l e : Free For(m) Rimbaud
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : AFK Records
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : May/2006
t r a c k s : 01
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 38,2 MB
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Vito M. Laforgia: electric upright bass, electronics,
megaphone, saw
Giuseppe Mariani: trumpet, laptop
Punck: laptop, objects, field recordings
Luca Sigurtα: objects, tapes
Fhievel: feedback mixer, field recordings
"19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud has famously inspired
some of rock's finest lyricists, including Bob Dylan, Jim
Morrison and Patty Smith. He chose to descend into silence
early in his life, yet the appeal and influence of his work
has persisted. Ten years after Hector Zazou recorded Sahara
Blue, urban settings of translations of Rimbaud's
poems,performed with the help of John Cale. Now Acustronic
Ensemble pays tribute to Rimbaud with just a few well chosen
recitations from his writing and a fabric of music that
manages to convey something of the hallucinatory vividness of
his poetry. Proximity is part of the vividness; although there
is depth of field to the recording, many sounds are heard in
close-up. And although the sounds are various, they often seem
to be enfolding around one another in a physical way.
Distinctive instrumentation conveys something of the character
of the music: Vito M. Laforgia plays electric upright
bass,electronics,megaphone and saw,with Giuseppe Mariani on
trumpet and laptop,Punck using laptop, objects and field
recordings, Luca Sigurta' objects and tapes and Fhievel
feedback mixer and field recordings. Mariani's trumpet
supplies some jazz inflections and associations but Free
For(m) Rimbaud is not anchored in any particular idiom. In a
single half hour movement it glides across the contours of
Ambient, avant rock, freely improvised and electroacoustic
music, defining it's own territory. Scratchy, twitchy rhythms
of unidentified origin are multi-layered and fringed with
electronic gleam, a synthetised scirocco, instrumental gloos,
odd banshee wailing. Don't be deterred if French symbolist
poetry is not your particular cup of absinthe; this is still a
musically intriguing and consistently diverting release."
(Julian Cowley - The Wire)
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01-Free For(m) Rimbaud [30:00]
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