Rutger Zuydervelt, the Dutch (over)productive musician better known as Machinefabriek; for a while I didn’t really follow his new releases but now I got the cd Glisten that he made with Australian guitar player Tim Catlin.
Machinefabriek is most known for his drone based ambient music usually with guitar as main ingredient, while Tim Catlin is known for his prepared guitar pieces.
Because of this the approach the two musicians took is not completely unexpected. Tim Catlin recorded tracks at home of his prepared guitars and customized and abused effects, but also some of more traditional picking style parts were included. Zuydervelt on his part worked with these recordings by adding extra sounds, doing overdubs and all the other magic he usually does to create his things. The result is presented on Glisten as 9 tracks.
For this work you do not have to expect the usual drone noodles, on the contrary Catlin provided some melodic pieces which bring a lively feeling to the music. Though, on the other hand we also find abstract pieces where the focus is more on sound crafting than song writing.
Still, though even while there are these different pieces you can recognize the finger print of Zuydervelt. It might not be the drone based works, but clearly the structures and sound colour does not differ much from his other work. Personally I think this is a shame, not because it is bad (because it isn't) but it would have been nice to see a bigger influence of Tim Catlin's own sound.
Overall Glisten is a nice release and if you missed out on a lot of the other releases Machinefabriek was involved with it sure is a nice addition to the collection, though if you do have dozens of his releases this is not really an needed addition. |
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