MAURIZIO BIANCHI/M.B. & MAOR APPELBAUM
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Reviewed on VITAL WEEKLY
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A heavy duty collaboration between the old master Maurizio Bianchi and Maor Appelbaum,
a younger player in the field of noise music. Although both get a credit for writing the music, it is mixed by Appelbaum,
which is not uncommon. Many of the current Bianchi albums feature him as a musician, but never as the person to finish the collaboration.
Its a bit of a mystery what his role is. Does he send sound files to the other who then remixes them? It seems so.
Two pieces here of some excellent noise drone music.
Whatever the input - either some sort of synthesizer sounds or perhaps the recordings of a washing machine - it used to trigger a whole
bunch of sound effects that makes the work top heavy. There is constant change running through these pieces, always something going on,
without making many new directions, more a further deepening of the various themes in the sound material available. Crashing, cascading sounds,
like thunderous storms wail upon the listener. This is noise indeed, but this is noise that I like. The drone element is amplified,
neh exploded to the very top end, and this is a perfect example of industrial music. It cleanses your ears and refreshes your mind.
Better than the real neurotransmitters. (FdW)
Reviewed on WONDERFUL WOODEN REASONS
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Another in the recent flux of releases from veteran post-industrialist Bianchi this time in collaboration
with Appelbaum of Israeli uber-metallers Grave in the Sky (amongst numerous other projects). I have no info on how this collaboration
either came about or was conducted so your guess will be as good as mine - I'm guessing it was an ancient Incan blood-debt realised through
karmic osmosis - but however it was the final piece is a relentless haze of grey-sky isolationism.
If colour and subtle harmonics are your bag then look elsewhere. If delicate fluctuations of tone and mood is your thing then the exit's over there.
If rolling ambience and dislocated melodies makes you wet then you'd best put your knickers back on. However, If dense, impenetrable fog of abrasive,
static-laced drone that spends 40 odd minutes throwing itself at your face is what you are looking for then you'll be in heaven.
A very bleak sort of heaven but heaven nonetheless!
Reviewed by Andrew McIntosh for SPECIAL INTERESTS
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Say what you will about the flood of new MB recordings, this release, at least, is a very satisfying example of how to do Ambient Noise. Two pieces of echoed distortion, synth and effects that have that lovely, chasmic, distant yet concrete sound I enjoy. It's musty and gritty while being echoed and slightly cosmic at the same time. It's extremely reminiscent of Astro, actually. There's enough lower fidelity grit on these recordings to soothe me from fretting about any too-cold, too-digital sound that would ruin, for me, the experience of listening to MB. In fact, this album turned out to be a lot better than I admit I was anticipating. While it doesn't come into the "so great I need to hear it only occasionally" department, it is good enough to withstand repeated listens without grating or getting boring. But there was always a certain mind space when digging MB (I have to admit my complete ignorance of Appelbaum's output, so I can't compare) which doesn't always compare when listening to other recordings.
Reviewed on PAN.O.RA.MA
http://panoramajournal.blogspot.com/
So... a very interesting cooperative release is what arrives to our hands lately. And an experimental album full of dynamic structures with strong elements worth to explore. MAURIZIO BIANCHI is known as an icon inside the experimental scene wordwide, due the dynamism and eclectic nature of its albums, focusing into industrial/experimental nature. By the other side we have MAOR APPELBAUM, a producer/sound engineer/mastering engineer and musician, which has been involded in alot of collaborations releases. So, both individuals converged into a conceptual album called "Neurotransmitters". The neurotransmiters are chemicals that are used to relay, amplify and modulate signals between a neuron and another cell.... So,from such perspective they created two compositions in 44 minutes, in which you shall explore both "Dopamine" and "Norepinephrine", both structures are built into strong raw drone elements dressed with a noise atmosphere covering the whole total of the tracks. Both tracks includes some diverse elements which you can experience when hearing it carefully. Full of corrossive, hybryd atmospheres both artists show us its most strong facet when working together! so,for more nformation just visit R.O.N.F !!
