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Testament

Testament

International experimental music compilation featuring Thomas Dimuzio, Jerome Noetinger, John Wiggins, Eric Chaselow, Michael Prime, Artifcal Memory Trace, Koji Marutani, RLW, Tim Walters and Nick Peck. "RRR's new compilation of noise-concretions features many of the genre's top-notch exponents, all putting in commendable performances. As one would expect, this ain't no dance disc; sounds instead being sculpted from a boggling array of Cageian environmental and manipulated sources - Nick Peck's airport sound scapes, John Wiggins' Negativlandian cut & paste work, Jerome Noetinger (the 3" genius behind the explorative Metamkine label) and his 'Le Ballon Rouge' sounding like the testing room in a prophylactic factory. Strangely enough though, for a genre so apparently unlimited in its audio potential, it is ultimately astounding how similar in approach many of these pieces sound, even when gleaned from vastly different sources and techniques. In fact it is often difficult to tell when one artist's contribution ends and another's begins. The sheer abstraction of the work belies any real trace of the creator, and thereby leaves Testament sound like the work of one 10-headed, globe-spanning musique-concrete-layer."—Opprobrium

  • RRRecords
1996
CD
$12.00

International experimental music compilation featuring Thomas Dimuzio, Jerome Noetinger, John Wiggins, Eric Chaselow, Michael Prime, Artifcal Memory Trace, Koji Marutani, RLW, Tim Walters and Nick Peck. "RRR's new compilation of noise-concretions features many of the genre's top-notch exponents, all putting in commendable performances. As one would expect, this ain't no dance disc; sounds instead being sculpted from a boggling array of Cageian environmental and manipulated sources - Nick Peck's airport sound scapes, John Wiggins' Negativlandian cut & paste work, Jerome Noetinger (the 3" genius behind the explorative Metamkine label) and his 'Le Ballon Rouge' sounding like the testing room in a prophylactic factory. Strangely enough though, for a genre so apparently unlimited in its audio potential, it is ultimately astounding how similar in approach many of these pieces sound, even when gleaned from vastly different sources and techniques. In fact it is often difficult to tell when one artist's contribution ends and another's begins. The sheer abstraction of the work belies any real trace of the creator, and thereby leaves Testament sound like the work of one 10-headed, globe-spanning musique-concrete-layer."—Opprobrium

Liner Notes

TRACKS

Artificial Memory Trace / Asymfon
John Wiggins / Masterpiecing
Eric Chasalow / The Fury Of Rainstorms
Eric Chasalow / And It Flew Upside-Down
Jerome Noetinger / Le Ballon Rouge
Rlw / 325 Painful Moments In The Life Of A Self-Pitying Christian Spokesman
Thomas Dimuzio / Zero Tolerance
Tim Walters / The Dry Well
Nick Peck / Music From Airports
Michael Prime / Instar (Extract)
Koji Marutani / Scenes-3