Vital (Netherlands)
Mattin related is his release on The Rhizome Label as Sakada. In this
trio Mattin plays
computer feedback, Xabier Erkizia plays computer and accordion and
AMMan Eddie Prevost
plays percussion. This is their second release with Erkizia, before
Rosy Parlane was a
member. The two pieces, one forty-four minutes in length, the
other just under five,
were recorded two years ago, and the first is a beautiful exercise in
high pitched
sounds, coming from all three players (as Prevost frequently strings
his cymbals) but as
the piece develops, things become more 'musical', in a sense that
percussive sounds are
percussive sounds and that the accordion can be recognized as such.
It's hard to avoid
any AMM influences in here, which are plenty, but throughout it's a
pretty intense and
unique listening experience, with lots of attention for the smaller
details. The second
piece, probably the encore, is a bit weird, not just for it's length.
It's a pretty
random piece of music, almost like a sound-check, ending in various
spoken words (which
aren't to be understood). Nice release throughout. (FdW)
Address: http://www.mattin.org
Volcanic
Tongue
Sakada
Askatuta
Rhizome
RHCD-14
CD-R
£8.99
Oblique, slow-motion set of electro-acoustic free improvisations from
the trio of Eddie Prevost (AMM) on percussion, Xabier Erkizia on
computer and accordion and Mattin on computer feedback. The kind of
intuitive, slow-sculpting form of the last few AMM recordings married
to a weird digital minimalism that at points feels like a more benign
take on Hive Mind’s transparently coded threat w/a touch of East Bionic
Symphonia-style deep-field panoramics. On Jon Dale’s Rhizome label.
discography
w.m.o/record label
desetxea net label
www.mattin.org