New sequence in the Product series on the label Cronica, where 2 artists share a CD. Now it’s a Dutch affair, with both Freiband and Boca Raton coming from The Netherlands. As I understand from the cd-cover, these are live recordings from March 25th 2004, made at the Earational festival for electronic music and audioart that year.
Freiband’s part is called ‘Replay’ (probably because, as it says on the cover, it’s loosely based on the previously released ‘Microbes’ cd) and it consists of 11 mostly shorter pieces-tracks which are mixed altogether in one whole piece of almost 30 minutes. The music is shifting around the ideas of presenting and (re)interpretating various aspects of sound, doing that in different manners, repetitive, loosely atmospheric or crackling, grainy ambient/industrial etc… A study of sound, best thing to do is just sit back, light a cigar maybe and enjoy it.
I’ve heard enough from Boca Raton before, on the labels Korm Plastics and Absurd, and his sound is easier to describe it as electro-acoustic/musique concrete, it would fit nicely in the catalogue of the label Ambiances Magnetiques I think. However, that’s a wider frame where he operates. Boca Raton shapes and designs his music in a more asymmetrical way, but with a strong focus and attention to what’s happening, aiming to surprise in that matters. So, maybe light another cigar, still sitting back and enjoying the second half of the cd. Both impressive adventures in sound, some of the best I’ve heard this year in these musical styles. Only one thing – I knew since some time that this cd was to be released, but I thought it will be a collaboration of the two artists, music they’ve made together. Perhaps that’s something to think about?
Boban Ristevski