Paul Schutze And Phantom City - Site Anubis (c) 1996 Big Cat UK Reco
Artist....: Paul Schutze And Phantom City
Album.....: Site Anubis
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 07
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Big Cat UK Records
Catalogue#: ABB 106 CD
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/Paul-Sch%C3%BCtze--Phantom-City-Site-Anubis/release/107112
Tracklist:
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01 Future Nights 12:23
02 An Early Mutation 07:26
03 Blue Like Patrol 07:15
04 The Big God Blows In 07:04
05 Ten Acre Ghost 06:31
06 Eight Legs Out Of Limbo 12:35
07 Inflammable Shadow 06:28
Total:91,7 MB / 59:42 min
Release Notes:
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Review:
This is the third CD in a Schⁿtze trilogy which began with 1992's New
Maps of Hell and continued with The Rapture of Metals; this final
chapter is a certified masterpiece. Schⁿtze, who plays keyboards and
also supplies various inventive electronic treatments (tapes, digital
sampling, etc.) has something of a signature sound, but he seldom
repeats himself to the extent that you think you're hearing the same
ol' thing. In the two earlier CDs in the trilogy, echoes of the Miles
Davis electric funk emerged from time to time as an influence, along
with touches of Jon Hassell and vintage Weather Report. But on this CD,
connections with the electric Davis of the 1970s are much more blatant.
There's no trumpet, but Julian Priester's trombone supplies an
occasional approximation, and the formidable guest list also includes
Bill Laswell on bass, Lol Coxhill on soprano sax, Alex Buess on bass
clarinet and Raoul Bjorkenheim on noisemetal guitars. And then there's
the drumming. Dirk Wachtelaer's dominant cymbal and snare work is
either very closely miked, or treated (or both), but regardless, it is
frequently brutal-slamming, crashing, in-your-face confrontational.
Throw in some serious guitar shredding by Bjorkenheim (Finnish
guitarists seem to have a talent for this sort of thing), and inspired
electronic moans and howls supplied by Schⁿtze, and you've got music
that can grab you by the lapels and toss you into next week, and then
turn around and drop almost instantly to an insidious, nightmarish
whisper. It almost seemed as if it would never happen, but Schⁿtze's
music on this CD finally picks up where Davis left off in the mid-'70s.
And while Davis and his edgy jazz funk still sounds good twenty years
on, Schⁿtze sounds even better. A major rush, and a major recording.
Info on Paul Schⁿtze:
Australian-born composer and producer Paul Schⁿtze is among the most
focused and prolific artists of the contemporary experimental
electronic scene. Releasing album after album of sprawling, icy, often
difficult ambient and electro-acoustic music, Schⁿtze's work has most
often been grouped with post-industrial ambient/isolationist artists
such as Lull, Main, and Thomas K÷ner. While the depth of detail and
breadth of sound obtained in Schⁿtze's work already confounds that
association, albums such as Site Anubis and Abysmal Evenings do contain
their share of deep, dark, highly cinematic soundscapes (Schⁿtze spent
several of his years in Australia composing for film). Although he
bemoans the rampant genre hybridity characteristic of many of his
colleagues in both the dance-based underground and the more academic
experimental overground (Schⁿtze's discography includes entries for
industrial/experimental labels Sentrax and Big Cat, Belgian
ambient/techno label Apollo, work with ethno-ambient industrialists O
Yuki Conjugate, and collaborations with avant-funk pioneer Bill
Laswell), Schⁿtze has moved increasingly toward incorporating rhythmic
and percussive structures and ideas from not only ethnic musical
traditions (he started out as a percussionist, and has studied Indian
percussion formally), but also the more experimental strains of
dance-based electronica.