Juan Antonio Nieto & Javier Piñango -
Two Unfocued Cardinal Points
Last year in November, Spanish cult label Marbre Negre released this interesting album in an edition of 100 copies. By two older veterans in the world of electronic music.
Mr. Antonio Nieto has been a member of the legendary electro-punk/pop band, Aviador Dro and has also been playing in a Spanish new-wave/post/punk band called Alphaville (Not the Germany based synth-pop band!). It should be noted that this Spanish Alphaville band was 2 years before the German one.
And then we have Mr. Piñango how have been active since 1990 in an industrial band called Cerdos, and have beside that releasing lots of albums under his own name since 2011 (Chk. Discogs!).
Now, these guys have been melting their creative brains together, and have succeeded in creating this fantastic brain twister of an album. We are in electro-acoustic avant-garde kind of territory. Glitch, drone, ambient, maybe field-recordings elements. A VERY organic kind of feel to the sounds, an expansive sound-environment which the listener can walk around in and explore! A kind of thing I miss in the world of modern dark-ambient, in other words, this doesn't feel and sound synthetic at all... it sounds bloody real!. An incredible achievement which should be listened to with headphones, from the start to the end!.
Comparisons are kind hard since it´s a very unique piece. Fans of Rapoon, Maeror Tri, Zoviet France should give it a listen or two.
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