Woven Wheat Whispers Chris Bozzone : Demons Through Mirrors -digi- (US,rec.2004-2005)***'
Chris Bozonne is a strange kind of fellow, who reminds me for a large part of Daniel Higgs (reviewed on next page->), for his personalized use of droning instruments and sounds, and for a certain heretic feeling in most of the songs, while the last few tracks are much more normal song inspirations as if there still was something real to tell in songs, and are accompanied by simple acoustic guitar. But first are the weird tracks. On “How Fragile We Are” we hear strange bowed harmonies of possibly hardly qualitative strings or hardly tuned notes with a worn out bow stick, which creates a specific cluster of harmonies, typical for a personalized instruments, from which in this case the failures in the sound harmonies make me cry a bit also, in pain. The “Hand Covered Song” after this, with droning harmonium-like accordion is another cry, a deep cry, like a murder ballad. This is followed by a raga-like guitar piece with almost all strings at the same time used for droning. The inspirations in song, with piano rhythms, and some background texturing sounds, or with droning guitars, reveal a singing as if from a heretic. Just on the last tracks, like I mentioned before, it is as if a difference has been made between the possessed sphere, and the composer who wants to tell a tale.
This is an interesting album, with a certain primitivism. It is only a shame that the sound quality of the recording is not perfect (home taped, and made worse in combination with the MP3-conversions perhaps), but luckily this makes the music even a bit more “heretic”.
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