| CD REVIEW Mechanical Organic |
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Band : Mechanical Organic Ach, the new Mechanical Organic “EP”…I’d been looking forward to be able to hear this! And as promised the band delivered pretty quickly…the preceding Disrepair Part Two – The Pleasure Fled EP was after all released in September 2009 (review posted 26/10, contains also info on when to find reviews of earlier releases by MO). If Part Two was a track lasting just over 17 minutes (the EP enhanced with an edited versionn for radio usage), the band has gone even further with Part Three, a 25-minute track titled “The Cut Hunter Theory”, a title which refers to the (rather ridiculous) theory that Aids would’ve come onto humans when an African hunter got blood of an infected animal into his bloodstream via a cut. Which immediately puts the main theme of Genesis Of A Germ on the map: the possibility that Aids was developed in secret laboratoria as a means to put human propagation to certain restrains (gótta have a conspiracy theory in there somewhere, you know!). As a constant in Mechanical Organic’s two previous outings, you get a mix of narration (taken from Darryl Bardford Smith’s shows) with overlaid music, and purely musical passages with vocals (use that in the plural by all means) on the topic by MO mastermind Eddie Katz. Different about the narration part, is that this time around Smith has let a guest speaker (a Doctor Banks, though it’s not specified what branch of the sciences she got her doctorate in) do most of the talking, intervening only to make some incisive questions and short additions. Regretably, the copy which was sent to us got damaged (partially broken) in transit, allowing me to listen to only about 17 minutes of the tracks (and the last minute with some weird sound effects each time the laser’s eye comes across the crack in the cdR). Meaning I just ordered a new copy, because I won’t be able to sleep befors I know how the track ends. Besides, like with previous MO releases, I knów I have to put both tracks…oh right, there’s again an edited version, of course, and supposing the “edit” the band posted at their website (www.) mechanicalorganic.com is exactly the same, it is nót this time the first 4:13 of the beginning of the track, but something cut out somewhere else…on my mp3 player for further occasional enjoyment (every one out of 4 times the mp3 player comes across it, I’ll actually listen to the track all over again, further analizing all the details entailled within the music and vocals)! By the way, again two tumbs up for the incredibly beautiful (sort of paleologically inspired) artwork (comes in a DVD box, and is another thing in which Katz excells). The main song structure and arrangements for Disrepair Part IV finished, the band has apparently already begun the recording process of Part Three’s follow-up…info about which I’m withholding until it’s released! Eventually, I’m not sure, but it’s possible that in Australia the EP is released through independent label Lockstep Records. Hell yeah, I know this is a short one for my doin’, but rest asured that Mechanical Organic still remain in my top 10 of favourite bands! P.S.: Meanwhile, I got back news from Eddie, telling me I could listen to the complete track at the EPK site for the album. And of course I did (a couple of timeseven), but not before telling the editor-in-chief to “hold the presses”, and wait for me to add a detail which I find very important. You see, one of the things I liked very much about the first 2 MO releases, was the use of Indian (Asia) music and chanting samples. Something which was not featured on Disrepair Part Two, but has now returned. Well, there’s no chanting, but there’s the use of tabla in most of the first part of the song, and they return a couple of times later on. Also, there’s at least three passages where one can hear additional Indian music played in the background! 98/100 Tony. |