Lieutenant Caramel - Et Sonner Les Coucous mp3 album

Flatulant, metamorphic, full of ideas, this short recording (18'30") makes for interesting listening. Like many recordings which use electronic processing (including, I assume, a sequenced pitch shifter) this has a cardy, material feel to the actual sonics, an unclear, opaque feel which fills the air with primary sounds without sounding in the least bit preset. Vocal treatments (loops, backmasking, processes) bring to mind the chilling backwards sequence from "Twin Peaks". There's also a Dadaist accent, with phonetic dabblings of the 'Zub Zam Zimb' variety. Take RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTØCK, fill out their sound to almost deafening proportions and you have yer L.C. Lots of electronic noise as machines and instruments revolt against being taken to such sonic extremes. Tunes of a sort form themselves within this tonal madhouse. Anyone looking to sample weird and unusual noises should find this a worthwhile investment. Let a young RUSSOLO, DALI and VARESE loose in a modern recording studio and lock them in for a week. Whichever survived would create something like this. Take your brain out and let hooligans play football with it for an hour before listening to this - you might detect normality in the composition if you have self-inflicted brain death. Weird, crazy, humerous. As damaged as the contents of the box from the beginning of "Ace Ventura Pet Detective". Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.