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Frank Meyer | Roman Leykam: The Cause Lies In The Future

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Artist: Frank Meyer | Roman Leykam
Title: The Cause Lies In The Future
Format: CD
Label: Frank Mark Arts (@)
Rated: * * * * *
Compared to a not too distant past, the German label Frank Mark Arts and many of its stalwarts and regular collaborators, whose artistic incontinence seems to be an existential hallmark, appear to have veered towards the relative abandonment of experimentation on electric guitars and processed, sometimes mannered, dives fully into forms completely free from patterns and migrations towards territories of improvisation and electronics, which seem to be functionalized to make one abandon listening to their own mental digressions. So, it becomes very likely that, listening to some artifact of the Frank Mark brand, one might forget about the underlying structures of the citaredic interweaving of the various tracks to let one's mind embark on abstract journeys submerged by a set of aural stimulations as in an imaginary Lily pond. And one of these listens could be the one proposed in this album, the result of the munificent collaboration that has already gifted very interested moments under the aegis of Frank Mark's label, between guitarist Roman Leykam and composer Frank Meyer. As in other previous episodes, the Steinberger owned and played by Roman remains the absolute protagonist, evoking forms that constantly change with the application of effects. Shapes that hover within clouds sometimes reassuring (as in the initial "Blind Trust" and the sci-fi streaks of "A Sphere of Time and Space") sometimes alienating (as in the refluxes of "Enduring Effect" or in the progressive saturations of "Time Out of Joint") of synths, which intersect in oscillating digressions between ambient sounds that strongly evoke glorious rides of ambient predecessors like Brian Eno or Robert Fripp and elasticized forms (because they really seem stretched like an elastic band) of certain psychedelia of 80s rock, adapted to the aesthetic translations of some new laboratory polymer. Recommended for enthusiasts of the genre.

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