Bruckner – the third-mind hybrid of Didi Bruckmayr (vocals) and Bernhard Lobiner (electronics) is about as far from a commercial proposition as you can imagine. It’s music, in the sense that the majority of the elements are often found in musical performance or composition, but certainly not in the sense that most casual listeners would accept.
Drawing together disparate elements of sound in a most avant-garde fashion, ‘Happy End’ contains five tracks that in many respects defy the conventions of musiciality.
Tribal tunes played underwater and put through a grinder wobbly bleeps and buzzes, throat-clearing all come together in a weird mash-up out of nowhere to form the fabric of this EP.
Blistered funk stutters, groans and tribal chants, vocal ululations resembling a didgeridoo drift over a swamp of sounds on ‘Further’. The echo-filled world of ‘Crystal’ is even weirder, springy synth bass pulses providing the backdrop to vocal contortions that leap from operatic to deranged melodrama. Meanwhile, creeping, cavernous incantations hover, hum and drone in the darkness of ‘Seven’.
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There’s a lot going on here, little of it remotely accessible. This is music that challenges the established notions of music, with few inroads and the most limited regard for structure or routes in to the crazy mish-mash that ‘Happy End’ contains. Bewildering, but brilliant in its strangeness.
Bruckmer – Happy End
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