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Francisco López - Absolute Noise Ensemble [Blossoming Noise - 0000]

Absolute noise Ensemble offers up a double disk collection of Francisco López’s noise to ambient to sound structures, collaborations with other like minded souls over the period of thithteeen years. The names that jump out a the causal noise listener  straight away are; Masami Akita aka Merzbow, Daniel Menche and Elliot Shape, along with many others.The total number of collaborators here is an amazing 50.

We have as you’d expect a very varied ride going though lots of texture and sound changes, going from burning sheets of static to organic ambience to pumped up rhythmic attack.Though out the quality is extremely good calibre, and  though these tracks were recorded at different times it seem to work as a whole, instead of a collection of tracks. Disk one offers five tracks stretching from just over two minutes to just over twenty minutes. Disk two offers up one hour long track that edits together elements and collaborations going back as far as 1992 up to 2003.

A few of my highlights from disk one are: Track Three, which within it’s twenty minute running time goes from; boiling walls of seething rhythmic noise, down to more ominous and organic strange settling looped environments- like making ones way across a strange world were rain pours up from the ground. The track almost dragging to a stop as the organic strangest bubble down to a sinter drone or shadowy slight presences. Track two with its angle grinding attack that melds into more rhythmic territory, then drifts into claustrophobic layers of echoed and layered multiple chattering voices, before exiting  to over shadowing tones of menacing  sound.

Disk two is an adventure all of it’s own- starting from slow developing  alien clouds of ambient sounds, build up to organ pressing anticipating tones, on to coiled and venomous  noise drug and hiss, to burning ceilings of smoked noise. But mainly it seems to go dwell more towards the slow and often creepy evolving and developing sound paintings, that stretching from been hauntingly beautiful to dread filled ambience.

A Very varied and rewarding release that’s deceptive title promises almost an all out noise attack, but instead gives the listener an wonderful collection of  challenge sound works.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
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