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Kites by Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek

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Rotterdam's Rutger Zuydervelt Has Previously Worked With Peter Broderick On The Machinefabriek 3"CD Huis Although For This Collaboration There's A More Even Distribution Of Work. Zuydervelt's Heavily Processed Drone-Weaving Is Countered By Luscious Acoustic Instrumentation But Importantly None Of It Feels Tacked On And These Two Prolific Artists Make A Good Job Of Integrating Their Respective Approaches. It's Actually A Very Natural Collaboration While Machinefabriek Often Converges On The Classical And Cinematic Broderick's Instrumental Music Is Rendered With A Discerning Producer's Ear. After An Introductory Splash Of Droning Atmospherics On 'Departure' The Follow-Up Track 'Planes' Takes On A More Classical Sound Featuring Broderick's Urgent Philip Glass-Like Piano Riffing And A Wordless Hummed Vocal That Gels Into The Swirling Zuydervelt Soundscape. Possibly The Finest Piece On The Whole Set 'Kites' Operates In A Similar Fashion With Loose Impressionistic Key-Work And Distant Strings Melting Seamlessly Into An Electroacoustic Sonic Environment. It's Like A Hallucinated Symphony Orchestra Drifting Across Airwaves Before Slowly Disintegrating Into Bad Reception By The Piece's Oddly Poignant End. Marking A Slight Change In Direction 'Rain' Features Vocals A Duet Between Peter And Susanna Lundgren And Acoustic Guitar While Contact-Miced Rainfall Forms The Basis Of A Backdrop. An Altogether More Experimental Radio-Based Sound Collage 'Blank Grey' Is Predominantly Electronic And Relatively Severe Using Acoustic Instruments As A Brooding Mysterious Background While Cut-Up Speech Fragments And Broadcast Signals Populate The Mix. Eventually Broderick Arrives With Processed Piano And Layered Vocal Loops Lead The Fourteen Minute Composition To A Close. Considerably Less Perplexing Is The Lovely Closer 'Homecoming' Featuring Piano Recorded By Nils Frahm And Grainy Waves Of Manipulated Fuzzy Sound Waves. 'Blank Grey Canvas Sky' Is A Sonically Rich Album That Marries The Talents Of Its Two Stars Without There Being Any Indication That It Occupies A Compromised Middle Ground. Gorgeous.

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