Christa Pfangen
Watch Me Getting Back the End
Die Schachtel 2007
01. See Me
02. Today
03. I'm Leaving
04. Playing Apart
05. Showing You How a Softer Beat Would Work as Well
06. Tiding Up, Getting Out
07. Simply, Just an Object
08. The Nail, The Eye
09. Getting Back the End
The perfect summer album comes early!! With an extra "!" because it's not exactly every day that two of Italy's best artists team up: Andrea Belfi and Mattia Coletti, fresh from their solo projects last year. In spite of what music mags may tell you, neither Andrea nor Mattia are "female", mkay? The first, at least, we got to know through Between Neck & Stomach, his percussion/strings meets pots&pans and electronics freakout (if you can't remember that, I wonder what can you remember), while the other's better known as 'Zeno' to us qualified acoustic nerds. Christa Pfangen - just so I would finally clear it up - is a tribute they now give to famous Nico. Looks like they've (intentionally?) misspelled her name. Oh well, it doesn't SOUND alot like Nico anyway... Did she ever play drum tracks at all? I wouldn't know, but drums are the key here, highly complex and intricate - a rare case where they steal the show from the guitar. Really, truely, this thing has the best percussion you'll hear in a while, and Andrea doesn't even need to be hardcore. One soft, balanced piece of work - nice dynamics, lots of variation, Zeno's guitar hits above par and the electronics add a neat touch. Overall, you feel like both of them are growing and improving, and that's what's most important.
>> mihd (48mb)>> love it, buy it (Mimaroglu)
2 comments:
I really enjoyed this one.
It has a 'free jazz' spirit but retains the intimacy/musical immediacy (even with all the 'horizontal/pointillist movement) of an small acoustic ensemble jamming. The electronic aspect is well blended, and 'under the radar', saving it from any 'Folktronica' comparison and it is simply to 'animated' (to my ears) to be put comfortably into a 'post rock' slot.
Certainly, a reference to Kieran Hebde/Fourtet could be made, though this is as if he took his 'findings' of the later solo work back to 'Fridge' to encompass more of a band/ensemble setting (with the players incorporating the cut/paste broken gesturing of Kieran's edit 'stylings' as a performance technique).
All in all, one of the more rewarding experiments of avant garde synthesis of recent genre break-outs (such as the 'New Weird Folk' and laptop guitar subgenres) I have heard.
Thanks as always for the 'introduction' ;-)
yes, a great success, and you're right on every line. italy is such a good place for new (slash innovative) artists - i'm almost like that Mimaroglu guy, wishing i could have it/them all in one shot.
some people probably won't agree with the "perfect summer album" title, but so much freshness and the images it captures - you can't resist them.
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