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MELCHIOR, DAN & SIGTRYGGUR BERG SIGMARSSON - Cod War Kids

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Some (Records) - no cat Release Year: 2019 Note: after the "Dark Arc" LP from last year (Ultra Eczema) here's the second collaboration with bizarre, dark & charmful low fi improvisations, field recordings, sketches of thee 'almost nothing', between music and pure atmosphere... "But through the whispering murmurs, the twang and fleeting harmonica is a true exploration of darkened corners. It’s as if they’ve awoken the ghosts of the old Gentry, and put them on someone’s front stoop to haunt the neighborhood." [Toneshift] Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info "This is the second collaboration of Sigmarsson and Melchior, following their 'Dark Arc' LP, reviewed in Vital Weekly 1146. I still have not much idea who Dan Melchior is, other than a guitarist. If there is a lot of guitars here is hard to say. Surely in a short piece like 'Wyno Ryder Forever' yes, but overall? I am not so convinced; it is not so important either, I would think, and both gentlemen do whatever they want to do, using whatever apparatus (hard and software, instruments, sounds etc.), they find suitable and do a great job, once again, in creating some beautiful weird music. This is music that is sort of genre-defying. There are some great creepy bits, playing on an organ, in 'Blind Curtains & Curious Eyes', along with singing/humming/sighing/screaming, there are field recordings of a rather hard to define nature, there is surely some heavily obscured laptop doodling going (like on Sigmarsson's previous solo release, see Vital Weekly 1169) but there is also the aforementioned guitar piece, which complete with vocals (no words) and rhythm is almost like a proper song. I am strongly reminded here of Nurse With Wound, but perhaps that is something that can be said of all the six pieces here. These two gentlemen share the eclecticism of the nurses; it is any music that you care to make, thrown together and it still sounds pretty coherent. The overall quality of the pieces is a bit dark, I thought, especially in their use of voices, which is the sort of unearthly humming; a drunken monk or a Middle-earth creature? Your guess is as good as mine. Sounds are provided by Helgi Porsson ('spooky synth sounds') and Frans de Waard (oh) and Tom Smith ("additional sounds"; I wish I could say what it is; I should know, don't you think?) and it's a great release (not because of those additional sounds; I was at conclusion before I reached the track in which they are used). It is experimental, dark, funny and solid. The fun is mainly in their strange titles (another NWW influence?), such as 'This Is The Scene Where Siggy And Dan Receive Their Prophecies From The Witches". This is an excellent place to start exploring the sound world of Sigmarsson and from there go to his solo work." [FdW/Vital Weekly]