Connexion Bizarre:

The untitled split collaboration between the French L’Échelle de Mohs and the Belgian Solar Skeletons is a strange and somewhat frustrating beast. On one side, L’Échelle de Mohs present two choice recordings of a ‘no-holds barred’ improvised session of sound experimentation: electro-acoustics, sampled field recordings, old recordings and voices are thrown into a melting pot, the result being “France Ferrugineuse”. This can certainly be seen as a throwback to the days of early industrial music but the efforts are undermined by a lack of production, which makes this cacophony less engaging than it could have been. On the other side, the Belgians Tzii and Ripit as Solar Skeletons deliver something rather unexpected for those that have their debut “Necroethyl” 12” as reference. Gone is a certain Tom Waits ‘whisky and cigarettes’ vibe, exchanged with a metal-fueled, intense barrage of noise that sounds quite coherent and somewhat harmonic (if such a term can be applied to controlled chaos). [6/10]

– Miguel de Sousa

 

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