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BURKE, DAN & THOMAS DIMUZIO - Upcoming Events

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: No Fun Productions NF32 Release Year: 2008 Note: ILLUSION OF SAFETY mastermind DAN BURKE in collaboration with THOMAS DIMUZIO - these are 15 pieces of experimental soundscapes as we love it - dense & absorbing, full of power, details, subtleness... "early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful"; BACK IN STOCK ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Experimentelle Geräuschmusik wie sie sein soll, undurchdringlich und dicht, packend, voller Details, voller Kraft, voller Subtilität !!! "Der trockene Humor der Coverfotografie von »Upcoming Events« (No Fun) verrät wenig über den feinsinnigen musikalischen Inhalt. Dan Burke (Illusion Of Safety) und Thomas Dimuzio ist hiermit nämlich ein ausgesprochen vielschichtiges Noise-Sammelsurium gelungen, das in seiner enormen stilistischen Bandbreite zurückreicht bis in die siebziger Jahre und in diesem Zusammenhang besonders an die damalige deutsche Szene erinnert. Andere Elemente wiederum lehnen sich – wie heute wieder so vieles – an die klassische Ära der Power Electronics an. Anstatt allerdings direkt aus vergangenen Jahrzehnten zu zitieren, gelingt Burke und Dimuzio – besser als zuletzt Demons mit ihrem Album »Evocation« – die Einbettung in einen durch und durch zeitgemäßen, niemals rückwärtsgewandten Kontext. Geprägt ist dieser durch eine ungewöhnlich warme, regelrecht menschliche Stimmung, die »Upcoming Events« erst recht zu einem großen Hörvergnügen macht: Selbst diejenigen Elemente nämlich, die schroff, zuweilen gewalttätig wirken, finden jederzeit in einer fast einlullenden Stimmung einen angenehmen Gegenpol. Letztendlich kann diese Musik ungeheuer befremdlich wirken." [Kai Ginkel / SPEX] "Further exploring the collaborative powers of Illusion Of Safety mastermind Dan Burke and prolific sound crafter Thomas Dimuzio, Upcoming Events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful." [label notes] "The releases by No Fun Productions have certainly been fun, but mainly for the reviewer of all things heavy heavy noise concerned. Today I could inform him of the next four releases that are out, but only three will make it his way. I am quite surprised to see a release by Dan Burke and Thomas Dimuzio on this label, simply for the fact that I know these boys can make a hell of a racket, but the main idea is never about the just the noise itself. A good piece of noise isn't just loud, it's dynamic - it can be loud for sure, but its the interaction between loudness and silence that separates good noise - well at least for me. Thomas Dimuzio, who has some pretty strong solo records, as well as collaborations with Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Arcane Device and Matmos teams up with my personal hero of American's underground 'noise' music Dan Burke, who is mostly known as the main man of Illusion Of Safety, but who sometimes works under his own name - such as previously with Dimuzio and with Kevin Drumm. In 2004 the two played three nights in a row at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, which are now edited into fifteen startling pieces of 'noise' music. Take 'Operative': a near silent piece of a few samples - I bet none of the kids would classify that as noise, but the old man does (no reason why he should know better of course). These two, also older men, play a variety of devices such as laptop, objects, live sampling, feedback and 'sound sources' and create with that, of course in an edit, almost an hour worth of music that is highly vivid, dynamic, bouncing from 'loud' to 'quiet' with sheer elegance. They know what they are doing, which is sometimes questionable from their younger peers. Intense, listenable, cinematic. Quiet can be the loud, and loud can be the quiet - if someone can proof that point then its Thomas Dimuzio and Dan Burke and 'Upcoming Events' is exhibit a. Boys and girls - take notice." [FdW / Vital Weekly] "...These recordings consist of electronically mangled drones, mechanoid field recordings agitated through digital means, pure tone manipulation, and unsettled noise culled from tactile crunches, all of which build to discordant crescendos that have the psychological intensity of David Lynch's sound design, certainly rivalling the best work that either Illusion of Safety or Thomas have done on their own. Steadily increasing drones become a hellish orchestral hum punctuated by metallic screeches which sound like a belt fan on a motor that's just ready to snap off its fly wheel. Elsewhere, unsettling electronics bleat against the tactile rattling of sand crunched against the head of a mic condenser whilst a subharmonic tone ominously rumbles in the distance. With the cover photograph of the armed barricade outside the 2004 Republican National Convention, the album takes on the aura of the soundtrack of a police state. Burke founded Illusion Of Safety in 1983, inspired by the industrial attitudes and aesthetics of Throbbing Gristle. While TG's prescient insights of culture as the death factory may seem commonplace to the media savvy, Burke and Dimuzio render their take on the conspiratorial and paranoiac with remarkable success. Highly recommended!" [Aquarius Records review] www.nofunfest.com/nofunprod.html