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Artist: PAOLO CANTU' / XABIER IRIONDO
Title: s/t
Format: 10"
Label: Wallace (@)
Rated: *****
This final chapter of the vinyl series puts to close friend/collaborators on two different sides of a split, infact Iriondo and Cantù have been joining their instruments to pay duty in A Short Apnea, Six Minutes War Madness, Uncode Duello, Tasaday and many other projects. Cantù uses guitar, drums, organ, tapes, vocals, electronics and many other things to recreate something that is really close to A Short Apnea. This side is imbued of that Seventies freaky music aura, the second track for example is a pure exhibit of seventies melancholia with a bit of dissonance. You have to wait for the third of the four tracks to have a guitar driven song with a great singing, while the last track goes back to a acid, desolated world. Iriondo has left his guitar back home and here uses vinyls, field-recordings, bass drums and a couple other instruments. The use of vinyls becomes immediately central during the first track, sometimes he reminded me of an old 3" mcd he put out as Due Parti Molli Tremolanti, the atmosphere brings back to the past but the global result is experimental since he's been working on the sides and everything ends becoming quite odd. In the second episode you have again that "non-music" feeling, it looks like we have Iriondo vs himself, moderns sounds counter-posed to ancient samples, I know somebody may complain sometimes the result is not always focused, but without any doubt this' one of the most interesting work composed by this basque-italian musician.


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