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REVIEWS
VITAL
WEEKLY
About two years ago we reviewed
'Morainos', a collaboration between
Paul Bradley and Eugenio Maggi,
aka Cria Cuervos from Italy (see
Vital 516). Since they have been
working on 'Moraines II', or rather
re-working the first one. Such
can be the world of drone music.
One drone - endless possibilities.
The original recordings have been
used, highly processed field recordings
that is, and together they created
quite a dark album of drone music.
Rather than moving about in one
single drone, this new piece moves
along various paths, clearly divided
into separate parts, each with
it's own build up and changes,
before moving to the next piece.
Some clear field recordings punctuate
the music, such as rain sounds,
birds and footsteps. Perhaps nothing
new, but the minor changes, such
as the various parts approach,
make this however quite a nice
disc.
Plus more treatments arrive through
the work of Andrew Liles, who
was given all the material and
made a remix (a phrase we should
not use for the first track).
Liles has a distinct sound (well,
as far as I know, as his output
is vast and incomplete here) that
is somewhat close to the more
eerie Nurse With Wound sound.
Here via the reverse sound approach,
like a single wave washing ashore
and a metallic drone rumble make
up a creepy soundtrack to a perfect
nightmare. Sounds arise from previous,
and make this a more singleminded
piece. Quite a nice one at that.
FdW (Vital Weekly)
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