Finglebone Adam Varney "Fulk', "Empty Room", "23"

I approached Adam's work with no definite pre-conceptions on what I am going to listen and downloading his free 3 albums from Bandcamp I tried to open myself to new possibilities of gettin through a vast terrain of work he has made with so minimal utensils as lo-fi field recordings, electroacoustic guitar and some electronics.
Usually with gentle layers of guitar sound and very little droning we should have some musical wallpaper which doesn't seem to be very interesting but what Mr Finglebone did is just great in terms of getting as much as possible from as little as possible. The guitar is no by any means hazy, it's more subtle and melancholical themes that it's getting all about. Background electronics and field recordings play a distant but yet important role and they never collide or overwhelm the main part. Together with a perfect artwork of Adam's authorship seems a great listen that I had over a week or so.

}e{nigmaplasme & X-naVI:et ‘SLOPE/THE EXPERIENCE OF LOSING CONTROL’

1. Hammer’s Head
2. Overdrive the Moon
3. No Second Thought to the Mind of the World
4. The Eaten and the Eliminated
5. Make a Solid Butter from the Batter (A Damaged Good)
}e{nigmaplasme aka Jeff Gburek: electric guitar, effects
X-naVI:et aka Rafał Iwański: analog filtermachine, sampler, effects, microphone, zanza
Recorded ‘live in studio’ by Jeff Gburek and Rafał Iwański, Poznań, December 28-31, 2009. Mixed by Jeff Gburek, February-March 2010
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Rafał Iwański and Jeff Gburek - two guys of so diverse past musical experiences that you could divide it into 5 other people with vast background in different styles set up a project which comprises approaches derived from 1990's and 1980's post industrial improvisation and droning memory of other paths. The lo-fi production gives a special spice to this recordings which despite hooking up on ghosts of past still sound amazingly fresh. What makes it is just the way Jeff and Rafał compose the sounds - something which today's music lacks in any kind of dispersed paths - the grounding grind and certain degree of aggressiveness which is an asset really.
Heavy pounding of Jeff's prepared guitar distortion and Rafał's analogue electronics create a perfect soundtrack for a morning juke. good stuff...