Mondegreen review in Polish!
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Here it is translated. Not as poetic as in the original language, but still... nice review :)
At times it sounds like a recording of an underwater concert of a magical group that long ago went down with the ship...
Concrete Cookie (from Poland) and the Maggot Farmer (known also as Jism and Dog Donut) are owners of the Mash Up Label and organizers of various parties in Los Angeles. Participators in the local culture, and above all musicians with passion and creativity. Last year, this female/male duo released "Mondegreen" on Force of Nature.
Heavenly blue, moving into darkness, smeared contours and shapes of unknown objects on the cover work well with the music’s wide array of ambient content. It’s definitely not meditative kind of ambient, as often it brushes up to harshness of industrial noise and field recordings of a large city, luckily, well thought out and without delving into oppressive cliches.
Opening moments suggest we have found ourselves in a nightmarish dream. The tension grows slowly and this atmosphere is built around sinister drones, deep reverberations, distant slamming sounds, and urban field recordings; here and there sounds of a raspy guitar, similar to Neil Youg’s soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Dead Man’ (Painleve), and delicate rhythms - rustling and jazzy in “Book of Margins” moving on to solitary, lazy beat in the finale of the monumental “Polonium Symphony” (15 minutes!).
At times it sounds like a recording of an underwater concert of a magical group that long ago went down with the ship, but more often “Mondegreen” portrays a collision of nature and culture, where the sounds of nature brush up against the sounds of technological civilization. Heavy and absorbing music.
-Maciej Kaczmarski
Here it is translated. Not as poetic as in the original language, but still... nice review :)
At times it sounds like a recording of an underwater concert of a magical group that long ago went down with the ship...
Concrete Cookie (from Poland) and the Maggot Farmer (known also as Jism and Dog Donut) are owners of the Mash Up Label and organizers of various parties in Los Angeles. Participators in the local culture, and above all musicians with passion and creativity. Last year, this female/male duo released "Mondegreen" on Force of Nature.
Heavenly blue, moving into darkness, smeared contours and shapes of unknown objects on the cover work well with the music’s wide array of ambient content. It’s definitely not meditative kind of ambient, as often it brushes up to harshness of industrial noise and field recordings of a large city, luckily, well thought out and without delving into oppressive cliches.
Opening moments suggest we have found ourselves in a nightmarish dream. The tension grows slowly and this atmosphere is built around sinister drones, deep reverberations, distant slamming sounds, and urban field recordings; here and there sounds of a raspy guitar, similar to Neil Youg’s soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Dead Man’ (Painleve), and delicate rhythms - rustling and jazzy in “Book of Margins” moving on to solitary, lazy beat in the finale of the monumental “Polonium Symphony” (15 minutes!).
At times it sounds like a recording of an underwater concert of a magical group that long ago went down with the ship, but more often “Mondegreen” portrays a collision of nature and culture, where the sounds of nature brush up against the sounds of technological civilization. Heavy and absorbing music.
-Maciej Kaczmarski