Shirase - Nervous fight capital

Label : clickclickdrone
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Release date : 2004

 

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CD


Second review this month for clickclickdrone records. Paul davies aka shirase delivers his first ep for clickclickdrone... bringing together such diverse influences as miles davies and brian eno, shirase's music is a colourful ride of layered melody, drones and careful beat construction...

"A pathetic act of random violence" opens with a low bubbling texture field of metallic walls slowly vibrating against each other to cause an almost glass slicing to be released into the foray. A sub bassline, plods along like a drunken hippo on the way to the karaoke bar, whilst a golden melody, tinkles backwards and forwards on a fluorescent swing, accompanied by oined bybig brother fuzz, who constantly warns of possible dangers with a big, almost creaky voice. Smooth but cunning.

"All I wanted to do was sleep" leaks from its container and runs over the rubble strewn floor, collecting discarded particles in its wake, and managing to unleash a mesmorising tune into this dark dark place. This one brings a lot of life with it, whilst "the smallest thing you can imagine" casts a hypnotic trance of crunchy glitch and harrowing calls, that forces you to walk in line towards the huge glowing presence on the horizon. Pure atmopsherics, blended with a quality drumbeat pushed into a cd form, for all to enjoy. Love's it.The robot sits in the shadows, spinning around uncontrollably on the damp floor, whilst randomly casting out distress beacons which fire into the sky like audio flares causing huge portions of daylight to rip from their moorings and causing them to crash to the ground, its "Romney hythe and dymchurch" time. That little metal loon is causing chaos. There is a underlying computerised mumbling to this one, almost like a space station, which is warming up to fire its lazer at a planet,commanded by tall man in a black cloak... or something like that. "Inquiry after" takes it down low, building up layer upon layer of atmospheric rumblings until they all combine in a wind fuelled demonstration on the edge of space, cool stuff.

"Nervous fight capital" is rammed full of landscapes and stories, that it cant help but get you thinking, its maybe a little bit too minmal in places for my personal taste, but still cool stuff. Its the quite person that always sits just out of view, the machine that youve never really used, that always manages to impress your face up and off when you see what they can really do. More sweet stuff on clickclickdrone, keep em coming.


Sam


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