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Sproingg — Clam
(Bandcamp no#, 2020, CD / DL)

by Henry Schneider, Published 2021-05-03

What is Sproingg? The sound a spring makes? Or a German band that defies description? Critics have described them as experimental polyrhythmic chaos; excessive progressive minimalism, space punk ambient psychedelic; dramatic, jazz and classically influenced rock; or music your mother would not allow you to listen to. From my perspective Sproingg is Rock in Opposition instrumental music for the 21st Century, drawing from King Crimson, Heldon, Present, Art Zoyd, Universe Zero, and Jack Dupon. Not only is the music raw and percussive, the song titles are quite imaginative: “Stuffer Gapes and Drapes His Cape on a Vaping Ape (including Destiny's Abortion)” and its companion “Stuffer Vapes and Drapes His Cape on a Gaping Ape,” “And Her Name Was 'Jo-Jo, the Dog-faced Boy', Part 1,” and the educational “Progg Is a Five-letter Word.” Then there is the closing track “In a Recent Survey, 4 out of 5 Clinically Depressed, Middle-Aged Suburbanites Strongly Preferred New and Improved Jizzo™ Brand Cream Cheese to a Mortally Wounded Clam,” which is in competition for the World’s Longest Song Title, right up there with Shawn Phllips’ “She Was Waitin' for Her Mother at the Station in Torino and You Know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy to Laugh.” Clocking in at just a mere 60 minutes, the trio of Prudi Bruschgo (electric guitar and electric baritone guitar), Erik Feder (drums), and Johannes Korn (Chapman Sticks and electric violin) thrash away on their instruments to treat us to polyrhythmic melodic dissonance for the connoisseur of avant rock, or as the band likes to call them, Sproinggaloids.

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