
Trick or Treat? continues its improvised evolution beneath on torrid and powerful synth solos which fly over sequences with curt alternations and circular oscillations, forging a tempo in constant permutation. A tempo that is sometimes abrupt, sometimes soft and sometimes absent, whereas synths roar or hum dependent on the rhythm’s pace. At around the 29th minute this tempo becomes a little bit chaotic, mixing irregular sequences’ strikes to a piano with frivolous notes. A mixture which creates an opposition of phases, as harmonious as rhythmic, which plunging Trick or Treat? in an eclectic and psychedelic electronic sphere to prepare the 3rd portion of this long track filled of surprising musical outcomes. And it’s around the 34th minute mark that phase III is taking shape with a light but complex rhythm where sequences to nervous doubloons are criss-crossing with frenzy and mordant on a nice structure of free jazz. Tireless, sequences alternate in a harmonious frenzy while keyboards are harmonizing to draw various melodious approaches in a surrealist electronic ballet jazz. The last phase takes its flight at around the 42nd minute with a bedazzled sequential movement where a furious intertwined rhythm spreads its ferocity under superb twisted synth solos. Sequences and solos merge in a wild electronic movement where the rhythm swirls violently on heavy opaque layers from where emerge dark choirs while the sequential movement continues its fantastic rhythmic ride. An unbridled rhythm which embraces caustic synths and freed from any coordination in movements, bringing Trick or Treat? in the insane madness of improvisations on hyper nervous rhythms and livened up by the desire to beat chords as soon as they get out of their dens.
Available in downloadable format on MusicZeit, Trick or Treat? is a pure exercise in style where the sequential madness reaches an immoderation rarely heard in EM. It’s a heavy and powerful EM opus where sequences and rhythms are grafting and leaking away on sultry ambiances as much ethereal as caustic. Behind all those Rubycon, Phaedra and Encore influences, Trick or Treat? is a stunning surprise that has surely its place among 2010 top 10. It’s a boiling album bubbling of wild rhythms which now seem to be part of Air Sculpture musical cultural heritage. If you are a fan of Tangerine Dream (Baumann years), Redshif, Arc, Ramp or RMI Trick or Treat? is an indispensable to you.
Sylvain Lupari (2011)
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