DIE BRÜCKE, LISTENING TO THE WORLD VIBRATE, METACHROMATISM, THRILL PICTURES, SHAMANISTIC by PBK

Phillip B. Klingler of PBK is one of the heroes of home taping scene of 1980's and 1990's US. Along with the likes of If, Bwana Al Margolis, Zan Hoffman, Minoy, Don Campau and many others he brought the invetiveness of crude home/bed room studios to the scale of interesting art concept where post-industrial noise with drone ambient and other elements closed up in an equlibrium of private trip to the edges of the unknown.
His bandcamp page is bursting out with re-releases and reminds us how much is there to be dug out of the vast pockets of American underground and how much music there preceded and inspired others including yours truly.
Out of the wide choice of the albums on Phillip's bandcamp he encouraged me to review those five here. Each of those representing a bit different aspect of his creative spirit, approach to composition and the themes which are, although quite elusive, easily read when you absorb the music.
Metachromatism starts with evocative ambient in the like of Asmus Tietchens and slightly reminds me of Popol Vuh's gentleness that is then on replace by sonic disturbance of the tracks conclusion. Deep droney meditation on repetitive flux of soundscape.

Die Bruecke is an interesting take on how you can blend feedback noise with waves of processed ambience and almost symphonic drill of synthtextual metamorphosis of the input sounds. The minimalism that finds its way to quite visceral mystery that can be both a soundtrack to historical reading of human fate.
Relatively medium length tracks are as diverse as you can get.

Shamanistic on the other hand is a completely different material - a minimalistic journey to the core of acoustic sounds, slightly processed and put into semi-rhythmical patterns. An introvertive take on self-analytical metempsychosis .

This material was released on two cassettes: "Shamanistic" (1989) and " Forming Mankind In My Own Image" (1990).
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released March 1, 1990

Next one in this collection is the evocative Thrill Pictures originally released on two C-60 cassettes. The word "ambient" could be used as a lack of anything else but there is an ethereal feel to this album which is like a non-stop trip in a vortex of spacey backgrounds and gritty foreground of sounds.

Listening to the world vibrate surprises with a very distinctive change in form of organic glitchy abstract beat structures. Another trip to the centre of a sound made through processing and understanding its structure by deconstructing it.

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