Monday 13 April 2015

Monroeville Music Center – musique concrete for beginners (MP3)



The instrument of choice on this mini album (9 songs = 16.43 minutes) is the Ominchord. It`s an electronic musical instrument which appeared circa 1981 (Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation). It looks like a weird guitar shaped synthesizer. As with previous Monroeville Music center releases this is electronic music with old school, kitsch at times, undertones. The album is an amazing listen. I liked all of them pieces. My only complaint? It`s too damned short. I would definitely prefer longer tracks. I don`t know what about a sixty minutes long release? At least this is absolutely perfect short EP (keep up the good work, kudos to whoever you are out there). Here`s my favorites songs:
5 – trigger select (1.36) = instrumental electronic music going nearly into eight bit music territory (Robo Warrior / Teddy Boy Blues soundtrack anyone?).
7 – subterranean centipede slave (2.05 minutes) = deeply melancholic synth music.
8 – Herb Pilhofer`s whirlpool (1.42 minutes) = spacy minimal electronics (think a beat less, stripped down version of Plastikman).
9 – hairy fairy hotaruna (1.58 minutes) = spacy, relaxing minimalism (mmm… minimalism …DOH!). I pitty the fool who says free music sucks! Get it here: http://monroevillemusiccenter.bandcamp.com/album/musique-concr-te-for-beginners
 

 

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