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Review: 'FIIUM SHAARRK'
'We Are Astonishingly Lifelike'   

-  Label: 'Not Applicable'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: '10th March 2017'

Our Rating:
Fiium Shaarrkk are Rudi Fischerlehner (drums), Maurizio Ravalico (percussion) and Isambard Khroustaliov (electronics).

The trio's sophomore release comes five years on from their debut album ‘No Fiction Now!’ and was written and recorded in their twin bases of Berlin and London or while touring in various other European cities.

The liner notes describe the resultant instrumental electro-acoustic jazz as a kind of sonic architecture; "a modernist edifice decorated with quadruple-time bass drums and ride cymbals and metallic percussion" all underpinned with digital flourishes.

With influences spanning from Karlheinz Stockhausen to post-rock, danceability or conventional melodies are not high on the agenda.

Instead, random percussive rhythms embellish some free-roaming improvisations that retain just enough structure and shape to be accessible and even, as on The Last Common Sense, end up being positively funky.

This is experimental music with a nimble sense of energy; drum beats or electro glitch serve to give a dynamic pulse and an expansive sense of space.

The shortest of the seven tracks is five and half minutes long so they give themselves plenty of scope build slowly and explore abstract moods.

The make-of-it-what-you-will cover art has three men wearing horse heads in a palatial restaurant perhaps to flag the album as intelligently crafted ambient music for radical dinner parties.

Fiium Shaarrk's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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FIIUM SHAARRK - We Are Astonishingly Lifelike