Moebius Story Leidecker:
Familiar!:
Bureau B:
LP/CD/DD:
Familiar isn't familiar at all, given its three creators' previous creativity. The late Dieter Moebius created challenging but imaginative soundscapes with Krautrock behemoths Cluster, Tim Story is easier listening by comparison and has previously issued warm and welcoming electronica on Windham Hill and Uniton, while Jon Leidecker's sonic ouevre is uncategorisable. Mention his band Negativland in the right circles however and you'll provoke a reaction, often good but sometimes suspicious.
Suffice to say that little of Familiar IS just that. It sounds like all three of these respected performers together, rather than their individual art. Don't be disappointed by the opening gambit - simply entitled Wrong, its remit appears to be to showcase each contributor's extremities without it being totally unlistenable. Atonal, fidgety, uncompromising and downright random, its zany four minutes soon breeze by before things settle down a little.
There's minimal 4/4 techno (Zucken), metronomic musical-box themes permeating the title-track and portentous atmospherics throughout the chin-strokingly entitled We Need You In Our Soups, before the album's sprawling closer Vexed meanders into view, like the landscape upon which much of this album was born - the epic Montana National Park. No thirty seconds are the same and there's something in it for everyone. Well everyone who enjoys ad-hoc electronics roadtested in the wilderness.
7/5/10
7.5/10
Familiar!:
Bureau B:
LP/CD/DD:
Suffice to say that little of Familiar IS just that. It sounds like all three of these respected performers together, rather than their individual art. Don't be disappointed by the opening gambit - simply entitled Wrong, its remit appears to be to showcase each contributor's extremities without it being totally unlistenable. Atonal, fidgety, uncompromising and downright random, its zany four minutes soon breeze by before things settle down a little.
There's minimal 4/4 techno (Zucken), metronomic musical-box themes permeating the title-track and portentous atmospherics throughout the chin-strokingly entitled We Need You In Our Soups, before the album's sprawling closer Vexed meanders into view, like the landscape upon which much of this album was born - the epic Montana National Park. No thirty seconds are the same and there's something in it for everyone. Well everyone who enjoys ad-hoc electronics roadtested in the wilderness.
7/5/10
7.5/10