Label: 4iB Records

20~32分程の長尺コンクレート/持続音で統一した共作!!80年代よりイタリアノイズのパイオニアの一人として活動を続け、既に活動歴は40年を超えた重鎮Maurizio Bianchi。ソロでは雑音とミュージック・コンクレートをミックスした硬派なスタイルで知られるFRAGことStephen Reuben Burroughsと作り上げた共作第一弾[Psychation]。各曲はそれぞれ全く異なる雰囲気、独立した形で作られていながら、アルバム全体を通して一つの流れで聞くことを推奨。混沌としたミュージック・コンクレートの渦より飛び出す音断片のクールさに圧倒されます。



M.B. - Psychelectronics, Segregated Noises, Nuclear Pictures.
FRAG - Psychelectronic Surgerism.

Psychation despite containing three lengthy tracks really needs to be listened to as a whole. Despite the tracks being individual entities with quite different atmosphere they are best appreciated as a thematic progression across the entire album. These tracks are constantly evolving and mutating pieces of angular geometry. A cascade of electronic shapes that fluctuate and shift in a metamorphosis of Musique Concrete tonal expressionism. At times the unrelenting nature of the album is just about to break your endurance before a snatch of melodic ambience breaks through the tumult and disarray.
Where Psychation differs from most 'noise' based albums is that it retains its granite density without descending into chaotic nonsensicality. Despite the at times abrasive incisive attack of sound it retains a sense of weight. Almost as if the sound is being layered as one would layer asphalt, layer after layer added and poured. Over and over again in ceaseless repetition. The sound of humanity as it is drowned beneath the post human neo liberal order. Psychation is the sound of humanity as it thrashes and drowns beneath the technologic order that it has birthed into being. (By Kristian Carter)