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march.05.2003 - #1123
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artist : Mice Parade
album : Collaborations
year : 2000
label : Afterhours Recordings
genre : Electronic
catalogue : AFT008CD
url : n/a
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.The Fall form Andalucia (Mice Parade Him) 10:48
02.Rela Circle (Pierce Harvey) 05:57
03.Mystery Brethren Vironment (Pierce_Tsuyuko Takemura Rmx) 07:41
04.Mystery Brethren Vironment (Jim O'rourke Remix) 10:40
05.Mystery Brethren Vironment (Child's View Remix) 06:11
05 tracks | 41:17 mins | 56,8 MB
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Collaborations begins with "The Fall from Andalucia," a pastoral
take on Pluramon's motorik aesthetic: AndrΘs Segovia-like guitar
flourishes slip swiftly into aleatorical wind chimes, then into
curlew calls bonded air-tight by Jaki Leibezeit-y polyrhythms,
marimbas and tabla plashes. Emerging from the closing dissonance of
the first track, "Rela Circle" calmly echoes with a lightly
reverbed piano and another outing for the quintessential,
tentatively-probing post-rock bass figure. Pierce allows a tinny
beatbox to oppress muffled congas as a Pullman-style guitar takes
over tentative probing duties from the bass.
In the first of its three forms, "Mystery Brethen Vironment" is a
lullaby in the style of Laurie Anderson's "O Superman." Hypnotic
keyboard lines cascade over Aki Tsuyuko's trickling la-la-la's.
Pierce breaks up the airy reverie with a knuckle-head grunge guitar
hammer. Though vocalist Tsuyuko does her best to turn the track
into an outtake from Lush's Scar sessions, it's a hope against
hope. The assault is just overpowering when it could have taken us
to territory unheard since Gil Norton's production of Pale Saints'
The Comforts of Madness.
Which is exactly what Jim O'Rourke does for his remix of the track.
And how splendid it sounds. The shoegazing bedrock is dappled with
more tinny beatbox dribbles; backwards acoustic guitar figures
cartwheel in glee. O'Rourke processes Tsuyuko's vocals into
iridescent splinters and scatters them about with devil-may-care
disregard.
Nobukazu Takemura dons his Child's Play guise for the final
reworking of "Mystery Brethen Vironment." From a gorge of noise
similar to Wire guitarist Bruce Gilbert's version of Can's "TV
Spot," Tsuyuko's vocals emerge no longer splintered-- instead,
they're stretched into immensely distended ribbons of sound.
Takemura ensures that he'll long be burdened with the title "the
Phil Spector of Glitch" with a rapidly adapting edifice of
micro-blips that loom over the conclusion of this rewarding record.
Though Collaborations will not discourage Wire journalists from
hallucinating political statements in the blankly apolitical
post-rock genre, it will encourage those wary of such
self-consciously aloof stances to dally awhile with this often
anxious and ambivalent style. --pitchforkmedia.com
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