The Durian Brothers - Ausgewähtle Durian Stücke

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  • Florian Meyer, Marc Matter and Stefan Schwander's music as The Durian Brothers can challenge and seduce in equal measure. Using turntables as instruments, the trio drag rubber bands, Post-It notes and other everyday objects under their needles. It's hard to grasp how you'd make usable sounds—much less music—from this process, though sequencers and various effects help bind the components. (They are distinct from a turntable musician like Graham Dunning, who incorporates vinyl into his set-up.) But the polyrhythmic drum tracks that emerge from these complex manipulations are, at heart, dance records. They're DJ tools made with a DJ's tools. A six-track compilation of The Durian Brothers' first three EPs for Diskant, Ausgewähtle Durian Stücke presents a multi-faceted survey of the trio's "woody trance" music. Scratchy West African guitar funk stirs "Haisai"'s rhythmic sludge into the compilation's most free-spirited selection. "Mille Yeaux," a slow, scum-laced stomp of mouth pops and sleazy guitar, sounds drunk on its own groove. Other tracks enchant with uglier loops. As glass pieces and metals drag across "Heat," the track seems to show The Durian Brothers' process more than most. You could say the same of "Inside Palace," where fabrics and textiles seem to stretch and snap under duress. (And who knows what's going on during "Ferme Intention," which sounds like a wind-up toy on a torture rack.) Trying to unpack which objects made each sound is half the fun, but the beauty of Ausgewähtle Durian Stücke is that it's just as easy to get carried away with the music itself.
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      A1 Haisai A2 Heat A3 Planete Sauvage B1 Inside Palace B2 Mille Yeaux B3 Ferme Intention
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