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Peter Warren & Matt Somalis | Bowed Metal Music

Metal Music?
CD, Innova

Tekst: Bas Ickenroth

Publicatiedatum: 07 juli 2001

And the music is all what the title predicts. Not that is this metal music - it's music made on metal, with metal, by metal. Warren and Samolis, two Americans well-known in the improvisational genre, play the steel cello on this album. According to their website: "The steel cello is a remarkably resonant and sympathetic assemblage of cymbals and tuned steel rods that, once set into vibration, produces a huge variety of subtly shifting timbres and harmonic intervals". A good description, but it is the people who play it. And they play it well, I might add. This is a live recording, improvised as a continuous performance of sixty-five minutes, but with added indexpoints for convenience. Don't bother skipping tracks however, because this is something you have to experience as a whole. A sixty-five minute drone, filled with dissonant overtones. Words like ambient or soundscape don't fit, and with the term improv music is often meant something completely different like freejazz. A freeform soundscape maybe? Perhaps, but putting tags on this music becomes futile while listening to it. There is an enormous range of sounds and moods coming out of the steel plates, and all those different tones shift constantly over and through each other. Sometimes soft and serene, sometimes loud and harsh, sometimes uneasy and frightening, but always downright impressive. It's one of the most atmospheric records I've ever experienced, an experience best had lying down on a bed with headphones. One of the highlights of the year so far.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/peter-warren-matt-somalis/bowed-metal-music/1046/
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