Y.E.R.M.O. - Collision Zone
(Idiosyncratic Records idcd004)
CD
I
don't know what the initialism stands for but I do know that the
individual constituents that make up Y.E.R.M.O. are sound artist
Yannick Franck and guitarist Xavier Dubois, both currently operating
out of Belgium.
The
5 tracks of muscular dark ambient drone and clatter that make up
'Collision Zone' were originally intended to accompany the work of
visual artists Nadine Hilbert and Gast Bouschet at the current (2009)
Venice Biennale.
Shorn
from their accompanying visuals and context it is often difficult for
the music to retain it's coherence and it's validity but 'Collision
Zone' is still an interesting listen. The pace is measured and the
swirls of sound, along with the occasional industrialised rhythms,
contort the music into some interesting shapes.
I'm
not the worlds biggest fan of dark ambient as I tend to find it a
little one dimensional. The 'dark' aspect seems to preclude
practitioners from adding any swathes of colour to their palette. This
is, to an extent, the case here also but fortunately the pairing have
had the ability and the foresight to vary the shades of 'dark' that
they've used and have created a valid addition to the genre.
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