A league of distinguished noisemen emerge with the subtle frayedfilaments of the two extended piece "Brackwater." The title track emitsa genuinely blazing low-fi double-take on what could either be a recordgoin' round and round doused in kerosene, or perhaps the splitting ofthe atom. This sounds like a grand procedure actually, almost like asquared off experiment between a quartet that's been choreographed tosync perfectly. Otomo Yoshihide's turntables blend incredibly well withTomas Korber's synthesized electronic play as ErikM and ToshimaruNakamura mix and otherwise dial-in to add micro-effects and organicfeedback. "Brackwater" is like an interactive carpet of static beingfine tuned, there's something really palpably textural about theircombination playing, with its heart monitor central to the post-climaxof the track, the beat goes on. Twisting into cold hallway like spaces,the entire shift of drama flows into the doubt of nighttime. Korber'sguitar is only hinted at, but makes for unpresumptuous but perceptibleeffect. The addendum "And A Slice of Bread" buzzes propitiously. Thebuild is live, the staging is simple, the panorama widens. They havefiltered much of the general angst normally heard in works that rely onthe effects of their own technical difficulties (feedback, static,whitenoise, other "on-air" sounds). The track renders the artifice ofan arboretum, perhaps created in a communications lab, somethingfuturistic, scientific, lost in a time warp. This one calls for volumeto attain its excessive subtleties.Read More
