Genre/Influences: Noise. Background/Info: The New Blockaders are commonly considered as one of the noise pioneers….
Genre/Influences: Noise.
Background/Info:
The New Blockaders are
commonly considered as one of the noise pioneers. They were inspired by the
‘anti-music’, but were still into ‘anti-art’ creating a kind of ‘nihilistic
sound universe’, which can be simply defined as ‘noise’. “Live At Sonic City”
is a live recording, which took place in Kortrijk (Belgium) in 2017. It has
been the last ever performance of the duo ‘Rupenus’ – ‘Niemand’. The
performance features a single ‘composition’ of 40 minutes. Next to the CD you
also get the DVD of the same performance.
Content:
The beginning and final
part of the performance features familiar classical music. Right in between you
get a terrific noise outburst, which is totally improvised. The DVD will give
you a better idea about the performance. The noises are mainly created by the
sonic destruction of a piano and the unconventional use of a concrete mixer.
Real instruments have been replaced by a saw, hammers, Larsen effects and other
noise manipulations. Both protagonists are wearing terrorist caps, which
perfectly reflect their way of creating noise.
+ + + :
The New Blockaders bring
us back to the essence of early noise experiments. But it’s more than simply
noise like contemporary artists have used to showing us. This is also a real
performance and even if this performance has something provocative (destroying
a piano) it also has something artistic. Arts have no limits and anti-art is
also an artistic format. That’s the kind of contradiction, which made the
essence of this formation. The DVD is essential to understand the approach of
the duo!
– – – :
The total improvisation
–which however has something conscious, and noise cacophony is not exactly
accessible for a wider audience. You definitely have to be experienced with
this kind of performances.
Conclusion:
This album brings us back
to the origins of anti-music and the cradle of contemporary noise!
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