Lovingly pinched from Blurt Online: Zombi drummer A. E. Paterra spins out gleaming, endless highways of synth rock on this solo debut, giving the nod to Neu! in his motorik lyricism and Tangerine Dream in the chilled, futuristic washes of sound. The disc’s first half consists of three original compositions, tense, staccato “Dresden Codex,” ominous “Teleforce” and sprawling, cinematic “Timespan,” which, at just over 18 minutes, conjures a nearly limitless sense of space and forward motion.
Then, for the disc’s second half, Paterra hands the three cuts over to fellow travelers for remixing. Steve Moore, his partner in Zombi, finds a paranoiac threat in “Timespan,” deepening its echoes so that the whole piece seems to unfold in a cavernous, subterranean space. Justin Broadrick of Jesu makes the most dramatic changes to his cut, knocking “Teleforce” into woozy hyperreality with dopplering waves of synth. It sounds like Paterra’s track with a mild concussion, wandering sideways into unfamiliar corners and framing its elements with halos and rainbow-colored auras. Black Strobe, a French electronic producer, elicits a languid sensuality from Paterra’s prickly “Dresden Codex,” bringing its brief, repeated melodies to the foreground and subduing its rhythms to a body-conscious pulse.
Continue reading: Timespan by Majeure on Blurt Online.
Tags: A. E. Paterra, Album of the day, Blurt-online, Krautrock, Majeure, psychedelica, Timespan
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