This spilt ties the knot between String of Consciousness I’ve just interviewed for Chaindlk (so watch out since you’re gonna read it sooner or later) and Kammerflimmer Kollektief I didn’t know anything about. This slab of vinyl has been a real surprise: I’ve been listening to the songs repeatedly and the first obvious conclusion I’ve come to is that this 10" joins a beautiful pair. I’m not just speaking about the top notch quality of both of the bands, what I’ve written is mostly referred to the fact if you listen carefully to the five tracks here included they all make sense on the same release even thought the bands are not that similar style-wise. Cinematic music takes over on both of the sides and I’m also tented to say that the matter is filmic but also nocturnal, it’s mainly instrumental material with a really elegant approach for what concerns arrangements and taste. Kammerflimmer Kollektief officially enter in the ranks of interesting bands, later I’ve found they’ve some material out on Staubgold which perhaps doesn’t mean that much, but you’ll agree with me it could be a good hint to suspect they’ve the quality trademark. An interesting bled of influences for they play with a subtle krautesque (... Can anyone?) aftertaste you can sense in both of the songs. Believe it or not the first track made me think to post-krau-tronic bands as we could have classified mighty Salaryman hybridized with the vocals of Meredith Monk, the second song instead reveals an all german taste for sadness, it could have been part of the soundtrack for one of those tv-dramas or even the main theme for Wender’s "Alice in den Städten" (if Can had not arrived first when we all were young and cute). On the other side of the 10" you have String of Consciousness with no famous guest and no vocals...does it cheapens the result? No, therefore turn down your skepticism since this’ the proof you needed if you were just trying to get if they "had it or not". S.O.C are probably one of the most jazzy bands hailing from the post-rock, post-modern, post-whatever scene, this probably what would happen if you put some ECM (let’s say Jan Garbarek), some New Wet Kojak, a good but discrete dose of electronic sounds and a spruce of Morricone in the same shaker. You think it’s an odd mixture?! Come on, think about it carefully and you will be with me thinking the combination was somehow quite logical.