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Thomas Christoph Heyde - High Culture Motherfucker [HCMF Rebords - 0000]

High Culture Motherfucker is juddering often manic ride that jumps between atmopsrics/ dramatics & playfulness often. Utilizing a  mixture of live electronics , turntable elements, percussion, piano, brass and strings for it’s often rollercoaster like ride.

What makes this all so rewarding is you never know what element, noise or  twist will be thrown into the mix next- with each track been a hyperactive trip in it’s own right. We go from the opener Fileldz which starts off with a  pressing heat haze like electro buzz and small turntable elements & then slowly builds up it’s strange sonic picture  world with; cut-up often comedic percussion elements, swirling strings and dramatic/epic to piano rolls and bellowing epic prog like gitar samples. Or Waves  from underground which pitchers ripping elector pulse, sampled piano tinkle and organ hover against boisterous harmonic and atmospheric boson wondering.  Or the sultry and sinister blowing tone of the opening of  Fernen with it’s mixture of 3 recorder's, live eletroincs and weirdly voclising- that comes across like some strange and at times sureal séance session. Before the track dips into pulsing almost African meets surrealistic sound bobbing and rhythmic pulse march.

Really a very strange and wonderful sonic trip that stretchers and dancers between dramatic and cinematic mood making, improv and playfulness & highly creative elctronica. With each track been its own strange often jarring but always effective sonic adventure in its own right.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
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