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| moon dream the leeds microlabel fencing flatworm are offering a welcome gateway to the french 'no audience' cd-r underground (their phrase, not mine) thanks to an ongoing link with their counterparts at burning emptiness across the channel, which just happens to be run by moon. dream is thus their first uk release - in as much as 'release' is the right word for the admirable ff limited edition cd-r ethic - and it is a veritable kaleidoscope of swirling analogue synth textures and heavily treated guitar drones. as titles like "oblivion" and "there's little evidence of intelligent lifeforms on planet earth" suggest, it's unabashadley spacey stuff - but not unadorned by deft musicianship like the jagged, cross-grained slashes of guitar that slice through "the queller drive" or the swelling, bouyant drones of "spacefuzzdge". listeners with a taste for the minimal will find the endless benylin burbles of the more longwinded tracks like "one two three venus" absolutely infuriating; but those of a more, uh, relaxed frame of mind will sit back with a contented smile and enjoy the trip. the wire, issue 246, august
2004, page 65, electronica reviews by chris sharp. from vital no. 415 MOON - DREAM (CDR by Fencing Flatworm Recordings) Fencing Flatworm Recordings have quite a nice catalog of underground music and each release comes with a nice full colour cover. Also Moon could be known to you, as they have releases before on their own Burning Emptiness label and which were reviewed before in Vital Weekly. Here they return with a full length album of Moon playing guitars through hard and software. Overall they use a fuzzy, almost shoegazing guitar sound with e-bows and synths playing a rather cosmic tone. Some of these tracks are a little too masturbatory and take way too much time, like 'One, Two, Three: Venus", which plays on the psychedelic effects but loose it in the end. However on some of the shorter pieces Moon plays some fine, dreamy and atmospheric tune. (FdW) |
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