This
is a very strange but also pretty cool CD but you just have to approach it will
open ears. This group of Norwegians have been performing live for some years
but this is their debut CD on the Gazul label, a side label of Musea. The
material here was mainly played live in 2008 in locations in and around Bergen
in Norway. It features Dokto Døv, Professor Fokuda-San, and Professor Waffel (can
be seen playing with SEID) playing a wide range of analog synthesizers and
effects with the occasional vacuum cleaner, water filled bucket and other
strange things. The tracks are quite variable in length. I quite like the title
track the way it has this mysterious drone and then these sounds like someone
is trying to eat the tapes in the background or something strange is happening.
Later some analog loops drive the track after a strange transition. This kind
of strange drone, electronic trip music is pretty hard to describe. First
Report from the Temporary Laboratory of Buddha Pavilion, has a dreamy like
state with static sounds, bells, and a NASA sound sample at the end. Doktor
Døvs on the last sound you will ever here is pretty strange stuff as well
lasting nearly 10 mins. How to wear a lab coat is a track that is really cut up
into strange pieces, samples, sounds, evolutions. Notes from Professor Fokudas
mountain Seminar starts of droney and different sounds enter and leave at what
seems to be random as the track evolves, sputters, trips, falls, gets back up
again and finally leaves. The last track only lasts 4 seconds and then the
51min trip is over. The music is totally experimental, far out, challenging,
sometimes exciting, sometimes a bit too weird but always intriguing for patient
people. Cool stuff.
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