Bathyscaphe - -11034m (2008)

[myhomeismycastle]

Bathyscaphe - -11034m (2008 ?)

Label: Monopsone, Where Are My Records
Country: Canada
Released: 2004 ?
Genre: Instrumental Post Rock / Elektro


Tracklisting:
1 Flexible (6:48)
2 Home Sleep Diagnostic (4:41)
3 Shutter-Release (4:22)
4 Airpirate (5:57)
5 Brise Glace (4:14)
6 Kilauea (3:42)
7 Labyrinthe (5:09)
8 -11034m (4:55)

Many artists are making instrumental music these days, but few do it well. Most of them muck it up, avoiding anything that resembles repetition, which in turn often leaves listeners with very little to hold onto.

Bathyscaphe prefer to lay into a single groove/harmonic universe and stay there, like a holding pattern for probability. Although I think the band would argue this, each track's construction is essentially the same: except for the atmospheric "Shutter-Release", overdriven bass, pounding acoustic drums and synthetic texture (synths, drones) are forever-fixated on a journey sans goals. Unfortunately, -11034m's trip is never exciting enough to care about. Even if the instrumentation differs from song to song, it's still the same formula over and over: the band essentially creates loop music without actually looping the performances. Fans of Terry Riley or Lamonte Young might find the effect to be moving and dramatic.

Bathyscaphe could salvage this disc with a few more tracks like "-11034m", a work whose diverse elements yield striking contrasts, but as is, the album's repetitive nature gives listeners too much to hang onto. Instead of hypnotizing, it simply annoys.

http://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.h...9525480772

http://www.wherearemyrecords.com/?lang=e...yscaphe001
[mp3]http://www.wherearemyrecords.com/media/Bathyscaphe_02_Home_Sleep_Diagnostic.mp3[/mp3]02. home sleep diagnostic
[mp3]http://www.wherearemyrecords.com/media/Bathyscaphe_05_Brise_Glace.mp3[/mp3]05. brise glace

Post Rock mit Klavier/Electro/Keyboard. Hat seinen ganz eigenen Klang und findet daher vielleicht Freunde. Mir im ganzen zu ruhig gehalten. Und hat einen Hang zum chillig-launchigen und etwas altertümlichem new-wave. Wirklich empfeheln kann ich die Scheibe nicht, aber sie ist irgendwie doch etwas so eigenes, das ich es nciht ganz unerwähnt lassen wollte. Vielleicht was für elSalvadore?
Für die imho verpasste Chance was richtig fettes draus zu machen, gibts noch 4/10

[PunkZERO]

Grade weil es so ruhig und vor alem hypnotisch is gefällts mir so gut

[petzen]

Eigner Stil, hypnotisch. Mir gefällt es.

[malde]

klingt ziemlich interessant

[padrak]

Ruhiger Post-Rock ist nicht so meins, aber ich hör mal rein.

[myhomeismycastle]

ich korrigiere mal auf 7/10
hat irgendwie gezündet bei mir