Martin Rach – Late Autumn Quartets (2016)
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Improvised noise
- New Weird
Lithuania
- Electro-acoustic
- Ambient
- Drone
- Electronic music
Comment: As the title suggests explicitly the whole
consists of 4 compositions. It is a notch in a series of seasonal quartets.
It's a peculiar issue where different and intriguing facets and methods in
music are juxtaposed against each other. Martin Rach, the artist from Lithuania
uses various instruments (metalophone, zither, kalimba, bongos, Korg Volca
bass) and at times special treatments for those ones. More profoundly,
improvised noise, droning scalloping and ambient hisses are the follow-ups to
lone string plucking the outing started with in fact. Furthermore, there are
represented a bunch of grey, superimposed areas of sound thereby providing two
folded sonic appearances. The issue comprises some definitive turns – from
exquisite stringed and glockenspiel-tinged arrangements (at least they used to
sound in that way) to rough and strident synthesiser-based shows (at Raving
Threads); from new weird-esque folk tunes to pummelling yet variegated
noise beams to ear piercing droning (at Root Architecture). In spite of
it throughout the course the listener can perceive the determined direction on
these diverse elements. Indeed, it is not chaotic it is expertly built up. It
is a pre-eminent issue indeed.
