Right after having reviewed The Mighty Vitamins, here's another boundless freak commando dealing with free-form improvised music. It looks like Public Eyesore is firmly headed in this musical direction or at least that's the impression after a couple of releases I’ve heard recently, but never take anything for granted with them. Like Mighty Vitamins Mike Pride and his band have this old fashioned sound and like the afore mentioned band the live recording helps a lot to make it all vintage but the final result is considerably diverse. "The Ensemble Is An Electric Device" is much more focussed on electro-acoustic music but not "neat" like Civil War, AMM or Gruppo Di Nuova Consonanza: it's much more jazzy and certainly more intentionally chaotic. Mike Pride is a percussionist and like many other percussionists leading a band (think to Gino Robair for example) he gives a strong "percussive" and "noisy" intonation to the CD. It's weird how the Viola of Jessica Pavone and somewhere else the lap-steel guitar of Gerald Menke in by some means keep the whole structure together while saxophones conspire to make it sink in dissonance. Contrary to what you may think, while Mike pride free-percussionism/drumming here and there speaks loud, in other portions of this work he’s playing is nearly "silent". Even if what I'm gonna write may appear a nonsense I’ve the idea Pride's ensemble improvise with a well-built american "inflection" that is somehow different from the sometimes "cold" hyper intellectual improvisational attitude of european musicians (and even if somebody thinks that's an heresy I think it has to do with the afro-american root of U.S. modern music). Last and most important: the whole work is packed in in a single track lasting for more than 34 minutes, the idea of the song never loses its integrity but at the same time you have ups and downs like in the ninety per cent of impros. This listening could be "unorganised/free-form" (which is far from meaning chaotic) an physical if compared to those recordings on Creative Sources but that if you’re into free-form music and into impro you should give them a try .