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CINDYTALK - touchedRAWKISSEDsour

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Handmade Birds HB-069 Release Year: 2014 Note: new studio album to the 30th (!) anniversary of his famous 'Camouflage Heart' album => quite massive and sinister, highly idiosyncratic, abstract ambient compositions with a somehow elevating effect, often filled with powerful digital distortion and waving field recordings, but there are also wonderful moments of yearning and romanticism... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info "touchedRAWKISSEDsour is an all new full length album from icon Gordon Sharp (the Freeze, This Mortal Coil) that coincides with the 30th anniversary celebration of the Cindytalk genre-defining classic Camouflage Heart. This album follows the critically acclaimed 2013 release of A Life Is Everywhere on Austrian label and tastemaker Editions Mego." [label info] www.handmadebirds.com "The term middle ground implies some degree of compromise, but Gordon Sharp places inbetween-ness at the core of his work, exploring what lies outside regularly codified categories.His catalogue has resisted the confines of binary thinking for decades - confronting normative conceptions of gender, by becoming Cindy in performances and in life, while eschewing the trappings of readymade musical genres, preferring instead to dwell upon alien qualities of difference.His Cindytalk project draws upon clanging post-punk, icy electronica and modern composition, and has vacillated between song based and more abstract forms with ease.Take this album’s title : raw and sour aren’t opposites, they’re just not the same. A wordless venture into the furthest reaches of Sharp’s electronic interests, the album coincides with the 30th anniversary of Cindytalk’s most famous release, the industrial song cycle Camouflage Heart, but it’s neither a nostalgic look back over the shoulder or a forced step away. There’s the sense that Sharp will not rest upon the laurels of his back catalogue or strain towards new realms solely for the satisfaction of novelty. The disc opens with “Dancing On Ledges”, a soaring cycle of static clusters tearing apart and immediately regrouping, and it forms a stuttering exposition for the rest of the album, which flows confidently between moods and atmospheres.”E Quindi Uscimmo A Riveder Le Stelle” moves from the sounding of bells to an electronic military march, evolving into a haunting, half-spoken series of distant pulses, while “Reversing The Panopticon” tinkles with high-pitched melodic phrases buried in fuzz against jumbled rumbling rhythms. The standout track “Yūgao” is a soft, ten minute pasture of delicate piano and melancholy synthesized bedding. The interplay between the elements is versatile enough to prevent things from spilling over into saccharine predictability.it’s beautifully wrapped up in itself, full of longing and the knowledge that the act of desire can be more pleasurable than the attainment of desire. When it draws to a close it doesn’t so much end as disperse. None of the tracks truly coalesces, but the album is stronger for it, taking on a fleeting narrative quality. Sharp undermines institutionalised, oppressive modes, and his music explores abstraction of formal thought and the possibilities it can provide - the ideal arena for someone dedicated to resisting the definitive." [Matt Krefting / THE WIRE]