Autechre - Confield
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Artist: AutechreEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Music Label: Warp Records
Soundtracks:
- Vi Scose Poise
- Cfern
- Pen Expers
- Sim Ajshel
- Parhelic Triangle
- Bine
- Eidetic Casein
- Uviol
- Lentic Catachresis
Music reviews of Confield
Music Review: NOT FOR THE AURALLY TIMID! MASTERPIECE FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T
Rating: 5 Stars
Don't buy this CD if you like the structured melodic/thematic framework that other less challenging (and for me far less engaging) music offers. For me, this lies just behind `Incunabula' (their first album) and `EP7' (their 6th `full' album I think?) at the top of the impressive Autechre repertoire.
The jangly, tap-on-a-can beats that accompany the lovely minimalist theme of the opening track "VI scose poise" could be aggravating in others' hands, but they just enhance the beauty of what they surround. Don't fool yourself into thinking that this beauty will resurface very often through the remainder of this consistently taxing album though.
"cfern" is another Ae track where broken-up jaunty beats try their best to deconstruct underlying themes and melodies (and indeed are themselves deconstructed in the attempt). This is no music for sonic wimps, but it has its own aching anarchic beauty that would escape those who would just dismiss this ascerbic later-Ae style as `noise', or just another example of repetitive electronica . The laboured beats in the `development section' rivet this frankly disturbing track into your quivering synapses. Whew!
"cfern" somehow ingratiates itself into becoming "pen expers", which is an unrelenting throb of beats that refuse to morph into anything approaching melody. If "cfern" was disturbing, this is murderous in its attack on the ears and the ear-consciousness that is forced (and I mean forced, as it's no easy task) to process it. The mind, having been `softened up' by "cfern", is congealed into something quite frankly terrifying by the harshness of this aural onslaught. I wonder if this track has ever led to lawsuits for psychological assault?
Phew!, "sim gishel" seems to offer some relief, but it has its own perverse sound-world that refuses to let us off lightly. Its deep bassy throbs, surrounded by jerky, ripply washes make it a track that never seems to get off the ground, but it obviously doesn't want to. This, the preceding two tracks, and the two that follow, "parhelic triangle" and "bine", take music close to a `deconstructionist' extreme that is only extended by more in-your-face industrial terrorists such as `Throbbing Gristle' and their ilk (my fave of this latter genre is the relatively unknown `Metal Machine Music' album by Lou Reed, which is extraordinary in its abject refusal to be anything other than pure noise).
The bell-like sounds that inflitrate the `thracking' beats that drive "parhelic triangle" introduce just enough `beauty' to stop the mind from rejecting its virulent, hackingly relentless throb. Its dissolution into almost total anarchy makes this a very hard sound-world to populate with one's mind.
"bine", with its eerie background `melody-washes' amid constantly restless beats and splashes, is even more anarchic in its refusal to find a tonal or emotional centre.
"eidetic casein" has a more organic and earthly feel, with a wider cast for melody than the previous five tracks. It almost has an oriental feel, with swelling melodic beats punctuating the more elemental bassy throb that drives it. The wandering theme that permeates it begs to find itself, but there's too much happening around it for it to rest anywhere. This is `wibbly-wobbly' music that wraps itself around your ears and sucks you into its sonic black hole without the mind-screwing relentlessness of what preceded it.
"uviol" has manipulated time-sequences that again surround a meandering theme that seeks to find itself, before morphing into more beat-driven landscapes. Again, the `wibbly-wobbly' style of "eidetic casein" draws you into "uviol"s warped soundspace, this time with pied piper-like jauntiness. These two tracks are a brilliant foil for what has gone before them. Without them, the album could have descended into unrelieved harshness. Bravo Ae!
"lentic catachresis" rounds off the album with a chattering jaggedness that slowly deconstructs itself into firework-like throbby beats that underpin little synth flashes of semi-melody, before a cheeky little buzzing end (or is it annihilation?). An extraordinary way to end a sensational, while eminently challenging, album.
Description of Confield
Electro, techno, hip-hop, ambient, modern classical, geometry and chaos theory might begin to describe Autechre. Their latest release has 9 tracks and a running time of over 62 minutes. 9 tracks. 2001 release.Confield's name and its digitally dissected geometrical artwork are illustrative analogies to Autechre's working methods. Sean Booth and Rob Brown use specially developed software to shape, slice, and dice beats and sounds. Despite the English duo's past as acid-house-loving hip-hop kids, the music they make now is resolutely undanceable. In fact, anyone who tries to move to Confield's nine tracks is cruising for a date with the chiroprator. Over and over Autechre render their rhythms irregular by cutting segments out of a pattern or by putting them into reverse. They aren't completely averse to melody, and the opening track "VI Scose Pose" proves that they can compose a lovely one. More often, however, their focus is on wedding fractured rhythms and intriguing textures, like the bell-like sound waves that pulse through the transmission-trouble beats of "Parhelic Triangle." --Bill Meyer
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