Master Of Disorder
Circum-Disc, 2025
9/10
Almufaraka, i.e. Gaëlle Debra, Patrick Guionnet, Maryline Pruvost and Peter Orins, come together for this avant-garde experience that’s as unpredictable as it is exciting.
The uniquely and abstractly voices of “Psychopomp” begins the listen with a bit of a found object background ambience, and “Holotropic” follows with howling, screeching and shouting amid the noisy and scattered setting.
“Autosuggestion” occupies the middle spot and showcases Orins’ drumming acrobatics amid wordless vocals, while “Theophobia” twists and turns with cinematic stabs of percussive sounds and vocal gestures.
Close to the end, “Psilocybin” yelps and drones via inimitable attention to mood, and “Cryptozoological” exits with the many voices grunting, shrieking and making other unclassifiable utterances that are primitive, eerie and highly unusual.
An artistic and iconoclastic assembly of seemingly disjointed sounds, this is sonic imagination that can whisper, cry or yelp with a fascinating and often perplexing appeal.