Incorporating Tomas Korber’s guitar only deepens the already dense saturation of noise Olympics. Though this is a brilliant melding of fine tones and monotones, there is a barren distance between the player and the listener. It’s a cool place to be, making the sound more or less a stream of consciousness object-like being or presence. As the tenth release from Cut, Momentan_Def shows a certain sophisticated direction for the budding label. At times it wriggles snakelike and pans out to a ship’s mast prior to a storm at high sea. There are smothered groans and lonely hollows as things here seem to develop organically.
After the title cut, each of the trio take turns remixing “Def.” to stunning effect. Starting off with Korber’s version we are confronting unbridled seasickness in the face with its tilt and lull wavering lopsidedly in a way that makes one blush green. The acoustics turn 360 to a submissive static that smolders. Steinbruchel is next up with his vibratory take on the piece that is at once watery, in an upstream direction. This is a bit of a treble drone that doesn’t take off to far, just sort of hovers and veers off into the horizon. Gunter Muller’s use of the iPod in his rendition wakens the insects and the night beasts working the haunted background to great effect. Rapturous cricket crawling crackles and steely cauldrons of ambiguous brew creep and prance through this organically-shaped canvas.
Momentan_Def is OUT NOW on Cut.
