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DANIEL MENCHE - Sirocco
imprec046 - CD - $11.99 
Sirocco by Daniel Menche is the first recording by him created by utilizing
sound sources from several other sound artists. Andrew Lagowski,
Asmus Tietchens, Main, John Duncan, Scanner, Illusion Of Safety,
Merzbow, ErikM, B. Labelle and AMT submitted one minute sections
of sound for Daniel Menche to work with and to create a long continuous
drone track by completely degrading and melting the source sounds
and massively layering these to form one long graceful and intense
storm to heat and scorch the speakers. Sirocco is a tremendously
dynamic and wonderfully textured drone experienece.
“Menche's music is built around drones that stand tall and
stretch deep and wide.”
Portland Oregon's Daniel Menche is one of those almost invisible
mutating creatures digging holes under the ground of common artistic
certainty, describing himself as a "mangler" and a "melter"
of sounds from the most disparate of sources, from bodily functions
to gorgeous field recordings (check out his work with Kiyoshi Mizutani
on Garden and Song of Jike). In Menche's soundscapes, everything
is remorselessly modified in dramatically charged lumps of pulsating
tones and scorching spectra carrying both a highly engrossing, hypnotizing
allure and the power to burn both your mental circuits and your
speakers (careful with that loudness button). For Sirocco, Menche
has remodelled beyond all recognition materials sent by SETI, Asmus
Tietchens, Main, John Duncan, Scanner, Akira Rabelais, Illusion
of Safety, Merzbow, erikm, Brandon Labelle and AMT (quite a list),
but don't think for a nanosecond that it's a simple helping of "Menche
Remixes". Imagine instead an android chef gathering up all
aural junk-food leftovers and recycling them in strangely perfumed
radioactive gravy. When Menche redesigns harsh visuals and inharmoniousness,
transforming rotting thistles into raw symmetry – he calls
it "vehement beauty" – his contribution to current
evolutional trends in acousmatics can't be ignored. Bear that in
mind while you thrill to Sirocco.—MR Paris Transatlantic
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