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Claustrum - Live in 24.08.99

Claustrum - Live in 24.08.99
Copyright © 1999 Claustrum

Repeated restructured human voice phrases boom in and out of full volume like the tuning of a radio in a forgotten place, searching for a larger civilization lost. Songs are built like object code; a motif is established with a loop accumulating and zooming out of control in diode peak, and onto it methods are grafted: mutation, reconfiguration, translation. After time and change an equilibrium is reached and texture returns to its origin. Baffling in its transformation and explicitly normal in the pace of its change, poetically, it is a dark cinema of the absurd: in a house without light the listener knows passage between rooms by the alteration in rhythm, but within these rooms ghosts interplay with living reaction to the abrupt reshaping of immediate surroundings. Like a succinctly unreal movie it leaves the watcher with an uncertain outcome, strong impressions cycling through memory as the awareness of this-moment-now lapses into lingering feelings of the incomplete. In shadowed hallways of experience distant radios are heard zeroing in on signals, recorded music and voices from discontextualized distant lives echoing before being absorbed into voracious silence. A sense of anomie lends strength to aesthetic, leaving listeners between states of mind with no bridge to cross, and delights in sabotaging that same sensation with too much place, formed of distinctive rhythm. Even its melody contorts briefly and then fades out, another collapsed station lost in the waves of time.

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