First claim.... Agreed.... second claim ... with Segovia on PCP ...maybe. I personally enjoyed a large portion of this work, but it's not for your average music lover. You won't be taking this one to the keg party.
The first couple of tracks are fused sonic landscapes delivered like some alien machine language forced through a transistor radio set on a classical station..... Only the classical music has been run through a Burroughsian cut up session. At one point it had me fearing for the survival of my speakers.
"Posaunend" the 3rd track is a cool percussive romp that has a surprising amount of intended melody. It sounds like a giant amplified working factory full of loose bits of metal, melodic guitar snippets, pigs under stress and empty wood boxes. The factory then being tossed down a large mountain made of semi hollow boulders. This is a great track and alone worth purchasing this work if you think you might want to experience what I am trying to describe.
The last track is dedicated to Hugh Davies. As part of a well-documented 40-year career, Hugh was heralded as the worlds leading electro-musicologist and new instrument maker. "Zirpend", recorded in his honor, is a sparse, inquisitive jagged lope with alternating short explosions of speedy atonal classical guitar and stretched string mutilations. This guitar work comes across as so physical at times, I wonder if it may be to the point of wood and fret damage. The noise machine tandems along with a frenzied electric animal gurgle / grate of feedback and howl.
With all of the verbal overload above, you might have a hard time understanding how Nois und String has brought forth calm in our house at a time when this is no small achievement. Let me explain.
Iggy, our new 10-week-old kitten, has been a holy terror on household items and sleep patterns. Strangely, all scratching / running / jumping / climbing stops when Ed and Han get going. She just sits and stares from speaker to speaker, with the occasional head twitch or tail flick as the sonic kitty valium short circuits her need to expend energy..... ahhh .... Thank-you
Rating 7/10
Special Kitty Sedative Rating 10/10
