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PGR e` la sigla dietro cui si cela Kim Cascone, sperimentatore elettronico
che si ispira tanto a Brian Eno quanto ai gruppi tedeschi degli anni '70,
e in misura molto minore al techno dei suoi giorni.
Agli inizi degli anni '90 Cascone e` attivo in diverse vesti.
Thessalonians
aiuta Cascone a produrre la suite "concreta" di The Black
Field, che si riallaccia agli esperimenti piu` arditi dell'avanguardia
elettronica.
Con gli
Arcane Device
e` stato concepito Fetish, le cui piece fondono
echi di musica industriale e le stasi abissali della musica ambientale.
Di una collaborazione con Asmus Tietchens e i Merzbow e` invece frutto
Grav, composto dalle tre suite Book Of A Thousand Days,
Three Hemispheres e Hymns From The Furnace, il cui sound oscilla
fra il massimo della violenza elettronica e il minimo dell'incubo subliminale.
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Sotto lo pseudonimo di Heavenly Music Corporation e` stato invece registrato
da un ensemble d'avanguardia In A Garden Of Eden (Silent, 1993),
originariamente concepito
per una "chill-out room". Non solo il ritmo e` praticamente assente, ma i
"droni" degli strumenti sono mixati a suoni della natura. La title-track
usa persino l'affanno di un orgasmo. Dawn Chorus ricorda i Popol Vuh
piu` leziosamente mistici. Il disco rimarra` la prova piu` organica e matura
del compositore.
Tutto il contrario per i successivi
Consciousness III e Lunar Phase, raccolte di schizzi
psichedelici ed elettronica vellutata.
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Under the monicker Heavenly Music Corporation, Kim Cascone and
Don Falcome recorded
In A Garden Of Eden (Silent, 1993),
music originally conceived for a "chill-out room".
Not only is rhythm almost completely missing, but the instruments' drones
are mixed with sounds of nature.
This album will remain Cascone's most mature work.
Organic, watery fluctuations and looping minimal synthesizer melodies
(Cloud Structure Silence), stark cosmic landscapes a` la early Klaus
Schulze swept by icy electronic breezes (The Quiet Mind),
suspenseful Steve Roach-y trances (Ambient To Be Here),
pulsating Tangerine Dream-y quasar-rock (Dawn Chorus and
(Reentry, with Roach on didjeridoo) and even an
intoxicating disco-raga (Beautiful Dream) represent a superb testament
to what electronic music can do to the psyche, encompassing ambient, new age,
psychedelic, progressive and world music.
The 14-minute In A Garden Of Eden abuses of this technique, mixing
water, animals, voices, exotic instruments and even a woman having an orgasm.
But mostly the album is a handbook, a "beginner's guide", for aspiring
electronic artists.
The following Heavenly Music Corporation albums,
Consciousness III (Silent, 1994),
Lunar Phase (Silent, 1995) and
Anechoic (Silent, 1996), are just about the opposite,
collections of gently psychedelic vignettes and velvety trascendental
electronica.
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PGR ritorna con The Chemical Bride (Silent, 1992), un ponte fra l'ostica
musica industriale degli esordi e una musica statica quasi new age, e
The Morning Book of Serpents (Silent, 1995), album ormai
di music ambientale quasi gotica. Il percorso di PGR e` in pratica quello
seguito da Zoviet France e Nocturnal Emissions.
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Kim Cascone resurrected his solo career using his own name for the
computer-generated music of the trilogy of
Blue Cube (Noton, 1998),
Cathodeflower (Ritornell, 1999) and
Residualism (Ritornell, 2001).
The results are a compendium of electronica, from Morton Subotnick's dadaistic
suites to Tangerine Dream's cosmic music.
After (12k, 2002) is an improvised laptop jam with minimalist composer
Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree (plus one remix each of such jam).
Fourfold Symmetry (Nexsound, 2003) is an album of remixing collaborations.
The Crystalline Address (Sub Rosa, 2003), a collaboration with Scanner,
contains two ambient suites.
Rust And Blue Dawn (Anechoic) is a collaboration with Andreas Berthling.
Fourfold Symmetry (Nexsound, 2003) is a collaboration with
Andreas Berthling and Ukrainian musicians Kotra and Andrej Kiritchenko.
Steinbruechel (atak, 2005) is a collaboration with
Jason Kahn.
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