PERLONEX: Perlon - REVIEWS
Beginning with (very) softly fingerpicked electric guitar, Perlon slowly build up a dense, detail-packed drone. Unequal parts ECM spaceyness, 1980's tape-trader loop madness, free jazz and electroacoustic mayhem, these three gentlemen mix seemingly disparate elements into a breathing whole. They take their time, letting the sounds hang around and become dissociated, as
when a word is repeated until it loses it's meaning. String a bunch of these unknowns togetherand they'll eventually cohere by the sheer weight of their mystery. They also suggest the union of the atomistic and laminate ways of structuring sound., which is also happening here. Slow down the atoms till they laminate with the layers, the loops break up under distortion to reveal their particulate core, and the two, again, mesh.
The quietness of a lot of this disc suprised me. Things seem to disappear even though some vestige of their passing hangs in the air. Expectation. (Yes, the disc is still playing). Now far off metal sounds, close-up shufflings of backwards cards,...a hint of melody. Rather than suggest timidity, these long quiet interludes show careful attention to the sounds, allowing them their
own voices before rubbing the edges of them together to see if they'll stick.
We're into the second track , low bass thumps...cackles of metal, squeaks...unamplified guitarnotes (is it a loop?...waiting for it to come around again)... thumps...(yes it's a loop)...squeaks descending in pitch...quiet cracklings...The loops are filling in the spaces between the other
sounds. Density. Detail...
- Jeph Jerman, The Improvisor -
Am besten könnte man dieses nachdrückliche Arbeiten mit Geräuschmaterial 'postindustrial' nennen.
Nicht unpassend versteht sich die Gruppe Perlonex (Ignaz Schick, Jörg Maria Zeger, Burkhard Beins)
als Uneasy-Listening/-Nobientensemble: Sie grenzt sich von Ambient- und Easy-Listening-Sounds ab und nutzt
diese gleichzeitig als mögliche Bezugspunkte. Hier sind keine glatt produzierten Soundoberflächen zu hören,
sondern eine Musik, die in ihrer ausdifferenzierten Feinmotorik die Bitte um ungeteilte Aufmerksamkeit enthält.
- Björn Gottstein, die tageszeitung -
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