EAST RIVER BLUES / FUNERAL FOR MURDERED ORANGES / CAMBRIDGE-UPON-MORNING / BROOKLYN GAMELAN / GLACIER NIGHT
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Fadensonnen's debut EP - high energy rock meeting expansive guitar duels stretching into the phase shifted stratosphere.
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GREY EP REVIEWS
Via Christopher Stigliano's excellent
Blog To Comm:
Blog To Comm 2011 ALBUM OF THE YEAR - "
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: hard choice really...I mean, which Fadensonnen Cee-Dee should I pick? Well, of the three I guess it's
platter #1 that
earns
the highest honors for this year. Given the overtly squeaky-clean image
that "rock music" had saddled on in since the eighties it's sure
wonderful to hear something
overdrive again. "
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http://www.black2com.blogspot.com/2011/12/end-o-year-wrap-it-up-ill-take-it-being.html
Fadensonnen-GREY EP CD (Fadensonnen)
Here's
an unsolicited item I received in the mail today complete with a note
that read "Hi Chris, High (Psychic) Energy Rock didn't die - it seeped
into the waterways of Brooklyn. Hope you enjoy this!" Now, some might
think that I would revert back to my true self and tinkle sprinkle all
over this particular disque like Iggy's girlfriend would to Iggy
himself, but I
refuse to do what would come most natural to me
and hey, will give this disque a more-than-decent writeup! Fadensonnen
are a pretty hotcha group that kinda reminds me of some of those
experimental aggregates of the past twenty years who have been springing
up from some of the most bizarre places imaginable...Charlamanides 'r
whatever they're called and some of the Japanese post-Rallizes Denudes
acts come to mind. And (given the weirdo cover graphic reprinted above) a
bit of the specter of Chrome seems to be looming high above as well.
Hot electric guitar blare with psychedelic hints that remind me of
post-Hendrix scronkings w/o the vocals, or any other instruments for
that matter. A "PD" and "RD" make of the group and their wild
feedback-drenched sound is enough to give heart and hope to this
way-outta-it oldtimer who still follows Lester Bangs' dictum about
feedback being the best thing that happened to the electric guitar (and
all that Lou Reed did on
METAL MACHINE MUSIC was take the guitar away!).
You might think it's boring but personally I find the entire thing very intense, engaging, mesmerizing
and
invigorating simultaneous-like. And who knows, you might too! "Highly
recommended" way for you to toss out more of your hard-begged!"
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http://black2com.blogspot.com/2011/01/you-can-tell-this-year-is-getting-off.html
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Via
Foxy Digitalis:
This self-releasd EP comes out of the blocks lickety-split. East
River Blues is a semi-immersive cacophony of shredded guitar squawks,
clattering drums and rabid tape manipulation that fits the band’s
description of themselves (as much as I hate it) as being “High Energy
Improvised Rock and Roll.” Still, it’s all a little bit trite and
banal, which is precisely what improvisation shouldn’t be.
The
next four tracks slow the pace somewhat, instead concerning themselves
with the creation of dry desert atmospheres akin to those favoured by
Earth of late. Funeral For Murdered Oranges is ponderous and arid,
plodding along for three minutes or so without really going anywhere
and Brooklyn Gamelan – although spacier and slightly speedier – is
similarly staid.
When they give themselves the space
and time to open up and develop like they do on Cambridge-Upon-Morning,
Fadensonnen prove to be a pretty captivating duo. Here they strum,
twang and bend to good effect, conjuring up Leone’s gigantic landscapes
and taking off to soar above them.
The final track
here is Glacier Night, a sprawling, dust-blown journey through Death
Valley that defies its chilly title and finally collapses in on itself
in a maelstrom of thunderous drums and pained guitar expression. When
Fadensonnen allow themselves to stretch out and flow like this they can
be quite an absorbing unit. It’s just a pity they don’t do it more
often. - Steve Dewhurst
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Via
Arcane Candy:
PD
and RD (I’m on an initials-only basis with these guys!), also known
as Fadensonnen, is a duo of din-makers who hail (a cab) from Brooklyn,
New York. (Soon to be re-named Old York, or maybe New Spice.) On their
alien-titled debut CD,
Grey, they offer your brain / ears combo a
half hour’s worth of surly sonics that crawl the gamut from noisy
guitar feedback with maniacally hyperactive, freeform drumming to
sparse, plaintive pickfests to all-out drone / riff-athons–all
reverb-soaked and recorded in murky lo-fidelity. This shirt, I mean
short but sweet set is sure to please electric fans of sub-underground
drone / shamble rock–especially from Japan and New Zealand.
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