THE ELECTRO REVIEW
  • Home
  • Reviews
    • The Electro Review 21
    • The Electro Review 2020
    • The Electro Review 2019
    • The Electro Review 2017-2018
    • Index
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Resources
  • Radio Electro

The Electro Review 2020

Brigitte Barbu Muzak Pour Ascenseurs En Panne Circus Company Records | The Electro Review

13/4/2020

0 Comments

 
Brigitte Barbu Muzak Pour Ascenseurs En Panne Circus Company Records | The Electro Review
Brigitte Barbu
Muzak Pour Ascenseurs En Panne
Circus Company Records
TBR: 12th June


Brigitte Barbu utilises sound collage and deep-sculpted composition to form unique and evocative electronic music productions. This album was recorded during a residence at the ​Our Lady of The Ark of The Covenant and makes use of all kinds of acoustics as well as many ingenious uses of instrument. Guitars have been teased from their original sound by electronics to produce a whole new dimension to their voice. Synthesiser, computer, effects rack, and a head full of dreams have led to this hugely momentous piece of work.


The album opens with Dae Boj DeMoya. A looped mixture of sounds opens the track, which are shuffled along and stitched with ever more disjointed sonics. A bass begins to twang while high end strings bounce and shimmer on spectral guidances. Whistle like tones glide on icy textures as resonant thunder rumbles in distant ranges. Loose yet perfectly positioned snippets continually merge into the mix. A continual breathing of melody acts like a thread which permeates even when rhythm is added. Crisp and distorted percussion adds yet more layering to this amalgam.


This is followed by a strange sample followed by a chunky and de-tuned rhythm. Wah bass thunders through in a brief plunge into groove. A minute passes by and Trou Vert 1 is over, to be replaced by Beau Zoo. This begins with laid-back melody which swishes in on dynamic fabric. A warmth beneath the tones gives rising currents to the dance inspired guitar. Speckles of note dapple like rain-drops as strings are bent and bottle-necked with graceful composition. Sounds of distances and space fold in, a mute ambience begins to fill the soundsphere as drum-beats like alien hearts resonate in the near stillness.


Disparate squelches and thumps make up the meat of Trou Vert 2. A siren like synth adds splashes of tone and puddle within a sludgy picture of voices and strangeness. This opens out into Sainte Amante. Stringed sounds combine with odd bells which clatter and clunk in distorted spaces. Fizzing tones with squeaks and scattered harmonisations give an odd perspective to a tubular and deep rhythm. The music shifts to a looped sample for a moment until that hypnotic and inward reaching tone returns. Melody on electronic noises adjusted for pitch and tone shape makes interesting additions to the second half of this track.


Sinuety rhythms slenderly snake out a crafty groove that shudders which depth and resonance. Yet another short number, Trou Vert 3 in fashion makes way for something more epic. The music overlaps to bring in shrieks of synthesiser which glisten on space-age zeniths. A rhythm gradually makes a layer through the abstract injection of progressive loops. Couvre chef en peau de taupe takes us to a distant energetic realm where intention and motive reflect in endless corridors of opportunity. We are taken to almost near silence for the beginning of what comes next. Distant thumping drums find a space in the nothing as sinister synthesiser decorates the passages. Trou Vert 4 ends abruptly.


Ray Z begins with a rhythmic synthesiser tone that dashes with velocity and adjusting tone. Varying elements of instrumentation add different melody patterns which harmonise in strange dimensions as notes bend and squash into place. Slow moving yet full of thick and gloopy sonic atmosphere, new elements find crevices and hand-holds to latch their dynamic to. The rhythm is given more pressure, extra beats find the half-measure, quarter-measure, and then begin to snake through the fizzing and reactive enchantment that surrounds it. Next, another micro-dose of atmospheric and rhythmic sound makes an appearance, it seems to follow on from its previous rendition. Trou Vert 5 ends on a vocal sample, repeating in a ghostly echo.


Droning melodies open the final number. Splatters of rhythm are hard to find among bendy notes which glow and fade in slow-burning formations. A deep tone begins to harmonise in a unitone pulse, it gathers energy and then fades away again as other notes dance and gesture on the liquid tension of presence. The music has a sleepy edge which lays us down for dreamy introspection and barely gives us enough motivation to reach for the play button when it's over. Luckily the album ends on a full mix of the entire album as one bonus track.  
​
The ultimate package for your designs

​
​You can listen to Brigitte Barbu on Spotify


Visit Circus Company Records online


Soundcloud


and Facebook


Get CPD Accredited Courses at £10
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Rowan Blair Colver for The Electro Review.
    Part of the Homunculus Media Group.

    The Electro Review is reader supported. Your donations ensure we can document electronic music into the future. Thanks to all our supporters. You're blippin' awesome.

    Homunculus Media
    Archive

    The Electro Review 2019

    The Electro Review 2018

    Extra

    Resources

    Radio Electro
    Support Links
    ​

    eBay US

    eBay UK

    eBay AUS

    ​eBay CAN

    Archives

    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020

    Free shipping and the guaranteed lowest price as SamAsh.com

    Categories

    All
    1201_Alarm - Hello_World
    Alexis Vogel Clairvoyance EP
    AL_X - Low Clouds
    Andy Garvey - More Than Meets The Eye
    Anfisa Letyago Electrifying EP
    Arad Radiance Haze
    Arnaud Rebotini This Is A Quarantine EP 1-8
    Bardamu - Sans Titre
    Blixaboy Desert Blaque
    Blixaboy Dwarf Star Conspiracies
    Brigitte Barbu Muzak Pour Ascenseurs En Panne
    Buhduzit - Jungle EP
    Cannibal Coconuts Tenochtitlan
    CCmndhr - SBtrfge EP
    Craig Birrell Untitled EP
    Cressida - Sambo EP
    Crosswhen - Crosswhen EP 2020
    Cyan85 Lucid Intervals
    CYRK 656.281
    Dadub – Hypersynchron
    Deniro – Coachella
    Dogs Versus Shadows - A Billionth Of A Second
    Ela Minus - Megapunk
    Ellen Allien True Romantics
    Europe Volume 1 Aurora Techno Records
    F5point6 - KaleidoSound: Space
    FIT Siegel Formula
    Forrest Fang - The Boook Of Wanderers
    Fragile X & Esef Static Control
    Fragile X Maps For The Lost EP
    Futuristant & Aura Nox - Universal Consequences
    Gafacci Dance Plug
    Geistech Enochian Voices
    Ghost Halo Chemical Rain
    Graintable - Universal Ash - (Reinterpreted Universes EP)
    Healing Force Project Temporal Pole EP
    Heidi Sabertooth With The Void
    Hologram Teen Pizza Conspiracy
    Igama Endure EP
    Jik Cnidae
    Jordan Nocturne Edits 02
    Kincaid All My Things Are Broken Because I Am Broke
    Ladymonix - Club Nowhere
    Lauren Ritter - Rift Vision 001
    Lewis Beck Talk
    Locked Groove Enter Revolution EP
    Luz1e - Radical Optimism
    Lying Cat Second Life
    Makaton Crime Wave EP
    Malcolm Galloway - Wasp 76b
    Man2.0 Vacuum Of Noise
    Mashinski Shinjitsu
    Minimal Drone GRL Ancestral Origins
    Mink Freud - In Isolation EP
    Mollono.Bass Woods
    Mother Of Mars - Space Without A Shadow
    Mothership Midnight Shift And Voitax Records
    No Arrival – Converse
    No Moon Set Phasers For Stun
    Oleg Mass Hydraulix EP
    Open Music Lab X Redox
    P. A. Presents - Flight Acid + Salicylic Stimulator
    Ramxes - Gozuki Pluto
    Samuel Berdah - Ed Okin Can't Sleep
    Sandilé - Best Of Both Worlds EP
    Sarmism – Lessons
    Scalameriya 47024
    Sepehr - Crown Jewel EP
    Shcaa - No Moon At All
    Simon Klee - Phototaxis EP
    Sobranie 8 18
    SOSANDLOW La Espiral
    STAUB005 Unnamed Various Artists
    Stefan Weise - The Seventh Signal
    Steve Hadfield - Displacement Activity Vol. 3
    Syrte 686.719
    Systems 1991 Suprawater
    Tales & Friends (Part One)
    Tales & Friends (Part Two)
    Time & Frequencies Vol 2 - See Blue Audio Records
    Tim Engelhardt Shine
    Timothy Clerkin - Hatred EP
    Tuomo Väänänen – Topics
    Urgula Frequency Wars EP
    Various Artists From Our Future Selves
    Vladimir Dubyshkin - Pornographic Novel EP
    What A Night
    Worriedaboutsatan & Veins Full Of Static What Are You Looking For - How Long Will You Sleep After You Let The Ship Sink
    Zildjianpinky Disocvery
    Zoo Energy Overhead EP

    RSS Feed

    Amazon US 

    eBay US 

    Amazon UK 

    eBay UK 

    eBay DE

    Amazon IT 

    Want free cryptocurrency? Explore these 15 crypto faucets. 

    Also, get Free US$ Tether / H 

    ​Free Litecoin / H
Thanks for supporting The Electro Review
Understanding Consumer Behaviour: Customer Decision-Making and the Customer Journey

Becoming a Better Music Teacher, ABRSM

  • Home
  • Reviews
    • The Electro Review 21
    • The Electro Review 2020
    • The Electro Review 2019
    • The Electro Review 2017-2018
    • Index
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Resources
  • Radio Electro