Genetic Transmission – Strychnina / Music for Acoustic Installations (Album

Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient-Noise, Electro-Acoustic.

Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.

Background/Info: Tomasz Twardawa better known under the moniker of Genetic Transmission has been without a shadow of a doubt one of the most prominent and influential artists from the Polish Experimental/Industrial/Noise scene. I didn’t notice he passed away last Summer while today Zoharum re-release the album “Strychnina / Music for Acoustic Installations” originally released in 2005 as CDR.

Content: The work features two long during cuts, which create a compact entity. The sound is mainly made of field recordings and Electro-Acoustic sound treatments. It creates a kind of sonic collage animated by monstrous sounds and crispy noises. Both cuts are untitled.

+ + + : If you like improvised music, this album is definitely one that will catch your attention, but more especially if you’re into the Electro-Acoustic approach. This work sounds to me like a sonic puzzle of noises and effects. I have a preference for the first track and its overwhelming sounds. But there also is something to say about the second cut, which is characterized by a slow progression evolving into a heavy noise outburst. Last, but not least –and it becomes pretty common, I have to say a word about the great artwork of the CD format revealing pictures of the different ‘instruments’ and noise sources this album has been made with.

– – – : Genetic Transmission remains a total Experiment, which will clearly not appeal for a wider audience, but only ravish the die-hard fans of this project and music style.

Conclusion: This album is a kind of unplugged Industrial/Noise work for fine tasters.

Best songs: “Untitled 1”.

Rate: (7).

Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum

Since you’re here …

… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading Side-Line Magazine than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help.

Side-Line’s independent journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we want to push the artists we like and who are equally fighting to survive.

If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. For as little as 5 US$, you can support Side-Line Magazine – and it only takes a minute. Thank you.

The donations are safely powered by Paypal.