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«"Music happens somewhere else". I came up with that phrase when I needed one for lezrod's myspace site and later found that somebody else conceived it for an article on William Basinski and Richard Chartier's self-titled on the german magazine DE:Bug. This phrase describes very accurately the new release from Sticking Drops, a two people project from Italy. "Meteo" is one of the most interesting releases I have heard through 2006, and indeed happens somewhere else.
Lorenzo Tomio and Nicola Luchese managed to ellaborate an album where darkness and detail result in an awesome sonic experience where time runs in a creepy mode and space is merely a bizarre consequence of that.
This mixture of organic timbres and fragmented/chopped guitars creates a constant tension that results in a very hypnotic and fascinating experience; "Meteo" manages to keep the focus very intensely as the structures work in a very narrative way, very storytelling and yet very abstract.
Test Tube always releases pretty amazing material, but I have to say this record was very special for me and I am very honoured and glad to get to review it.
Indeed an album that stands out.»
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Reviews:
«Sticking Drops - Meteo ep ('|041). C'est un peu spécial. C'est ambiant. C'est "météorologique", sûrement. L'intérêt ? Un mélange de sons électros et d'autres analogiques : guitares qui croisent gentiment le fer avec des rythmiques purement métalliques. Pas inintéressante, cette histoire. Ca reste curieux, quand même.»
- LaFresto / May 25, 2006
«And so, the tube number 41 is looking at the sky… as the two members of Sticking Drops are talking of contrasm.
Contrasm between the reality of sounds and its way to be generate, contrasm in the approach of creation for Lorenzo Tomio and Nicola Luchese, contrasm, contrasm everywhere…
The result is far from being stormy.
'Pioggia' (beautiful italian word for 'rain') which opens the EP, is a sensitive hyperreal observation, feel this particular odor of wet hot tar by a stormy shower?
'Grandine' (hail) is made of this massive block bass sound, rolling on little perls after explosion, once again this particular impression of "a" reality evocation in the writing.
Then, this too short Meteo EP closes on 'Neve', a monochromatic larsen snow wind which fills all empty spaces, leaving you any possible lull.
Rain, Hail, Snow… don't forget it, prima di iniziare un'estate calda.»
- Thierry Massard / May 11, 2006
«A brief release of three tracks deep in abstraction, brimming with emotion, and full of tension. “Pioggia” is melancholic with its sad tones, broken sounds, and disturbing textures of glitch. “Grandine” is a chaotic, beatless, and deeply abstract collage of scratchy, unnerving noises until about the halfway point at which time it takes slightly more structured and rhythmic atmosphere. The keeper track for me is “Neve” an initially loud and aggressive piece of noise that within a few minutes becomes a tense and sinister drone full of electronic hum and microscopic tones.»
- LAJ / May 10, 2006 |
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