This three way live collaboration between multimedia artists Heimir Björgúlfsson (Staalplaat, Bottrop-Boy), Pimmon (Fallt, Meme, Tiln) and visual artist Helgi Thorsson. Recorded live at the Melkfabriek in Den Bosch the recording was then treated to careful constructive editing by London’s Robert Hampson at Thirst. With nine individual unnamed tracks that chatter and slide into one another the listener, familiar with their individual work, will delight in the meandering mesh of pitched fireworks that careen and flare, sputter and fizzle. It’s like a constant motor that restarts with new meaning each time a silence is induced. There is a fair share of gibberish sonics, a gassy backing drone and a stylized fermentation at the four corners of their traversed canvas. While pretty playful, the connectivity of the three artists points of view here appears serious, almost competitive. They have obviously all listened to a great deal of John Cage in their time, having grasped the need to steer far away from fading into the general public consciousness of turgid acceptability. The percussion is muted, steely and drops in and out fluidly. Samples of spacey strings gallantly swoop across the room and play on the left and right channels of sound. For a moment you are imaging Audrey Hepburn in some classic 50s flick and next you are strapped into an uber contemporary starship and you are captain of this light speed module. While this has its moments of solitude where sound and imagination suspends with aural gravity, there is not an instant of dead space. This trio fills you with a discerning heap of suspense.
TJ Norris