As liner notes states, this Jürgen Eberhard's project celebrated 25 years of artistic activity so his first full release on Zoharum is an hint of, even in times when net advocates states that everything is known or accessible, there's always obscure gems to (re)discover. The musical offer by this project is an almost irksome blend of drone music and musique concrete and this album has been constructed using mainly sounds of insects.
The voice introducing "Dokugumon" states the starting point of this release as sound is important for mosquitoes as wings of males and females beats at different frequencies; after a moments of plunderfonia from perhaps a scientific program, the tracks really starts as a track rhythmically oriented where reverberated samples generate a sense of void filled by the fly of the mosquitoes from the left to the right channel. The first part of "Grankuwagamon" is based on field recording of a female singer suddenly overlooked by a drone halted by the recording a man hoarsely singing introducing a second part based on the alternation of subtle soundscape and almost harsh noises. The introduction of "Kuwagamon" is based on phrases that could be usually found on school text for English language and the rest of the track is based on the juxtaposition of insects sounds creating a wall of sound undermined by the resonances underlining their abstract form, at least for our habit. The first part "Metallifekuwagamon" sound almost ritualistic as his background is a song for voice and drum while his second part develops the same feeling from the samples of the insects using the sound of the wings as a drum pattern. "Ookuwagamon" let emerge something as a human voice from loops of samples while the first part of "Sandyanmon" develops rhythmic structures from a silence slowly developing into noise. "Tentoman" is based on a static drone acting as a background for field recording of water and closes this release with a question mark.
Instead of being a typical field recording release, it's a complex work where noises and plunderphonic elements are used to generate the sense of a parallelism between the life of a bug and the life of a man in present times. The result is work of great depth but it's something for someone willing to listen rather than hear something that could be superficially sound as an immersive soundscape but, in fact, is something else. Truly recommended but not for everyone.