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Falter Bramnk — Electric For​-​Tunes (Not Necessarily Vintedge Music)
(Bandcamp Becoq 46, 2023, CD / DL)

by Peter Thelen, Published 2023-12-31

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While Falter Bramnk, an alias for avant-rock experimentalist and improviser Frank Lambert, hails from Lille in France, which is also home to one of France’s most interesting and adventurous labels (Circum-Disc), my first thought was that this collection of artfully inspired sound collages would be a perfect fit for Circum-Disc. In fact, Electric For-Tunes (Not Necessarily Ventedge Music) is on the Becoq label, but a quick check of his 2017 release Glassical Music (an even-stranger more out-there recording) shows that it was indeed on the Circum-Disc label, and in fact of the dozen or so previous releases, almost every one os on a different label, with some being self-released, and of those that I know, they are all radically different from one another while fully maintaining an experimental edginess; the sounds embraced on the nine tracks herein are well beyond anything that could be considered popular music, or even any music for that matter. Bramnk executes his ideas on an array of keyboards, from the familiar like the Hammond B3 and Farfisa Fast 5, to traditional instruments like harmonium, to a half dozen or more organs that I’ve never even heard of before. Most are overlaid with one another in multi-track fashion, some having a powerful percussive sound, almost like bits of tape are cut and reassembled into a whole new fabric that exists well beyond the limits or the ordinary sonic imaginatives. Guest player Evelyn Groynne joins on two tracks playing ondes martentot. Some scraping sounds might clash with aggressive noises over low voltage electronic hum, louder one minute then shapeshifting into something completely different, rippling across time and space, single notes beating with sounds that are already coming from a different space. There’s really nothing here that resembles any known musical idioms, few repeating cadences, no melodies or harmony, just strange and unusual collages of sounds that would probably clear your next party with guests vowing never to return, but that’s the beauty of what he has produced here: introspective blasts of calm, chaos, and adventure on a number of different levels, recommended for the intrepid listener.

Filed under: New releases, 2023 releases

Related artist(s): Falter Bramnk

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