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TOM HAMILTON, BRUCE EISENBEIL : shadowmachine

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Artist: TOM HAMILTON, BRUCE EISENBEIL
Title: shadowmachine
Format: CD
Label: Pogus
Rated: * * * * *
Another unconventional work on Pogus, this time is not exactly composed material, we’re dealing with improvised music, ok some of you may complain improvised music can be read as "extemporary composition" but I think you got the point. While I’ve recently reviewed some composed material by Tom Hamilton, I’ve never heard anything else from Bruce Eisenbeil beside a jazz quartet. The first plays modular synthesizer and the second guitar, the odd combination could bring forth comparison with Frith, "electric" Derek Bailey when playing with some electronic artist. Eisenbeil style is less aggressive that that of mighty Bailey but somehow his intentional avoiding predictable note combinations and his interaction with Hamilton has some of these influences. Hamilton if compared to his composed material moves in a different way and he’s won my deep respect for being so "cold", just listen to the end of "dryer mouth" where he revives the cadaver of Pan Sonic, or "the salt eaters". The basic formula sometimes is represented by a framework organized by Hamilton where Eisenbeil interacts or opts for an autistic rifforama and as many improvisers sometimes he’s "just ok" but sometimes he manages to be brain-striking (Walley spawn). Sometimes they barely sound melodic and emphatic like in the title-track or quasi atmospherical like in "dot dot dot".

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