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MARK SCHAUB - Damaged Future

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Anomala Sundscapes AS 002 Release Year: 2019 Note: Italian experimental & dark ambient artist MARK SCHAUB (aka MAATH) created this album as a kind of soundtrack to J.G.BALLARD's dystopic stories with 9 different "scenes" / tracks, showing a wide spectrum of cinematic styles, from strange "electro-Jazz" over electronica-minimalism to melancholic drone fields for deserted landscapes.. an unusual but worthwile BALLARD-tribute; lim.100 copies only Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info https://anomala.bandcamp.com/album/damaged-future "Unlike the electro-acoustic suite “Combustion” which inaugurated the catalog of Anomala Soundscapes in the split album together with Daniele Pecorelli, Mark Schaub’s new work develops on various levels articulating between very dissimilar styles and sounds. The trait d’union between these short compositions is the attempt to recreate the apocalyptic scenarios of BALLARD in music, an author so dear to a certain industrial culture that here once again he returns to the center of speech in a series of sounding rooms that, as in the story narrated in “Condominium” by the English author, they seem to overlap in a complex structure regulated by the forces of evil. To accomplish this paradoxical “ascension into hell”, Schaub therefore relies on disparate means, from the ghostly setting of “Misty Rain” to string instruments that reverberate in the distance in “Old Paths” while a television on seems to be the only sign of life still perceptible, from the liquefied and radioactive lounge music of “A Crossroads Overhead” to the abstract and futuristic electro-jazz of “Collide”, up to the glacial desolation of “Rests of a Damaged Future”, a purifying and definitive showdown.is extinct." [Massimiliano Busti Blow Up Magazine]