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MONO::POLYThomas Dimuzio |
Asphodel/Gench
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PLAY TRACKBaste (2:26)TRACKSMono :: Thomas Dimuzio Solo :: |
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REVIEWS “... a luminous snapshot of an artist, who deserves widespread exposure. Highly recommended.” — All About Jazz “The pallete is broad, but homogeneous, and like too often elsewhere, does not exclude subtlety.” — V.I.O.R. “One of the top ten albums of 2002.” — Rod Smith/Citypages All About Jazz This 2-CD set represents live recordings performed by trailblazing synthesist Thomas Dimuzio along with like-minded artists such as Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, Anna Homler, and others. To that end, the West Coast-based artist stretches electronics to the outer boundaries of comprehension. Dimuzio sometimes opts for a shock therapy mode of operations, via bombastic sounding EFX diatribes. He mimics and conveys notions of perhaps communicating with the spirit world via electronically manipulated voices that fade in and out of various motifs. Moreover, Dimuzio and associates employ turbulent and/or subliminally transmitted rhythmic maneuvers. The listener might feel, caught up in a futuristic world Š where the sounds of the cosmos are fed into a sound distribution machine - altered by rhythm and alien voices. It is all up to our active imaginations, as Dimuzioās concepts defy even the most modernistic categorizations. Ultimately, this newly released effort serves as a luminous snapshot of an artist, who deserves widespread exposure. Highly recommended. ÷Glenn Astarita V.I.O.R. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound producer of
discs and designer, Dimuzio has long experience of electronic exploration
and improvisation. His first own-produced cassettes go back to 1988 and,
although he has to some extent remained relatively ignored, the years
enabled him to refine a style with horse on the music concrete and noise.
Moreover, little fame did not prevent him from taking part in many concerts,
since he presents to us here a double compilation of recordings in public,
appearing in solo on the first and accompanied by various collaborators
on the second. Among these, one notices Chris Cutler and Fred Frith, DJ
Q-Bert (Invisibl Skratch Pikl) and Wobbly (Tigerbeat6). The pallete is
broad, but homogeneous, and does not exclude, like too often elsewhere,
subtlety. (4 stars) ÷Réjean Beaucage Citypages
Rod Smith, freelance writer |
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