Comment:
the last tenure of mine with regard to Chicago-based pan y rosas
discos imprint was dedicated to Dioxadol Borges' outing Siconauta
Tourist Class. It was an issue of being heavily keyboard-driven and
riveted with different kind of rhythms. The result was quite poppy
while flying in the face of some incisive experimental elements.
There is another synth-based issue though providing a little bit
different tendencies in comparison to it. Andy Cohn is a man of
having more than 3000 instruments worldwide in his mythical
warehouse. It is his 37-minute session with Elbio Barilari. Elbio was
playing a vintage JP-8000 Roland synthesiser, and Andy was playing a
Steinway piano, a Roland Juno-D synth, and a Yamaha CP-70M electric
piano. The outing is something peculiar and strange and ennobling at
the same time and stylistically a drift between Kosmische Musik,
wonky improvised music and analogue keyboard-driven synthetic
landscapes. Yet the process is punctually controlled – at least it
seems to be so. One can hear Tangerine Dream, and Sun Ra to appear
sporadically in some snippets, though some more abstract flows may
suggest early electronic music pioneers to be sitting on their rough
machines. What about the time to be described in conjunction with the
music? Does it exist as an entity or is it just an illusion or at
least an effect of our perception? By listening to these 2260 seconds
all these hypotheses are set up on air to last on. It needs no
answers to be answered for. Tension coming out of it it is up there
as an instrument. All in all, it is certainly an outstanding outing
from the previous year.
