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REVIEWS ON WEEKEND (click the images to read full!):
Coke Machine Glow - by David Abravanel
"Weekend owes much of its charm to technology, but crude and obvious technology, applied in drastic ways that swim against the flow of increasingly subtle possibilities of digital sound editing. All conceptual and technological discussions aside, however, Weekend is a lovingly inviting and intimate work of a fantastic new talent. Claudio Szynkier applies simple production to a simple idea, but the results are sublime in a way that few other electro-acoustic music makers have achieved."
MM&M - by Dez Innocent
"Babe, Terror is a guy from Sao Paulo in Brazil who first came to my attention with a perplexing, but rather splendid EP late last summer. It was a weird confection of loops, overdubs and mal de mer melody. The debut album Weekend is even more out there. There is virtually no instrumentation on the album, save a few blasts of static on “Summertime Our League”. Instead the whole thing is constructed using looped, layered and manipulated vocals. On paper, it may sound like a fairly cheerless academic exercise – the reality is far from that."
Forest Gospel - by Lil' Thistle
"As the premiere release of Brazilian label, Perdizes Dream, Babe, Terror’s Weekend sets a high standard. The record is a dream space created almost solely through manipulated vocal loops, lovingly layered into a soft oblivion. It’s a fairly simplistic idea, but one that proves blissfully successful in the hands of Babe, Terror." ... "It is the kind of thing that an ignorant, untravelled American, such as myself, imagines is soundtracking the exotic jungles and cities of Babe, Terror’s home in South America. It’s night music for humid climates, or perhaps dream music is more appropriate. Either way, Weekend is an exciting document of experimental music that you should definitely check out."
The Guardian - by Alan McGee:
"Weekend is a voyeuristic look inside Babe, Terror's head and the musician's travels around his Sao Paulo neighbourhood. The music is unorthodox; it's boiling, twisted pop sitting somewhere between the layered harmonies of the Beach Boys and the deconstructed riffs of Kevin Shields. As the album begins, we tune into a planet of sound: fuzzy and hazy at first, but as the clouds disappear it morphs into a minimal techno folksong against a background of controlled feedback and choral harmonies. It espouses a Brazilian touch; a unique, weird, wacky approach until it becomes a pop masterstroke."
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ABOUT BABE, TERROR:
New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones article descbribing the project
"Babe, Terror speaks to my love of a certain kind of noise. Because this music doesn’t involve form in the way verse-chorus songs do, I have a hard time pinning down the variables. There’s usually a drone involved, bits and bobs pop up, and things move at a leisurely pace. But that’s an equally good description of terrible music, so don’t write it down. The Babe, Terror song (song?) "Nasa Goodbye" on his MySpace page does the trick, whatever it is. (Insert struggling metaphor here: an birdhouse caught in a flatbed scanner; a dress fitting inside a wind tunnel filled with acorns; etc.)"
Uncut's John Mulvey's:
"I’ve written about this guy Babe, Terror before here, but he emailed me about a new track he’d posted the other day, and I think it might be his best one yet. It’s called "Summertime Our League". This more than ever is about the possible scientific/emotional experiments that can be conducted on the human voice. We’re advised to listen to this one on headphones, which makes sense. Watch out, though: what initially seems immersive, chorally soothing, gets pretty disorienting with some vicious jump-edits and a smear of distortion that jars somewhere around the middle of its eight-minute run. Lovely, still."
Said The Gramophone:
"This ('Nasa, Goodbye') is a song from Sao Paulo. Maybe it can teach me something. I take my notepad, like a student. I close my eyes. I imagine strolling down Teodoro Sampaio Street, sky the colour of roses. Cars rush by in glints. I meet someone. She smells of mint. I kiss her on the lips and then we become untethered, floating. Our lips separate. I'll never see her again. I am drawn upward - past hot trees, lampposts, into the rose sky. Past car-horns, yowling cats, the sounds of riots and love-making. I'm brought up past the smog, to where the satellites spin. We rush by in glints."
Too Cool To Die:
"This is indeed mighty and fine, but incredibly twisted pop; "Cabalgo", for example, is a wordless tome of fuzz bass, outerspace space vocals and tribal beats’; "Os Santos" is a backward sung tome that heck I have no idea what they are singing about but the sounds are incredible like Panda Bear remixing the David Axelrod produced Electric Prunes religious album."
Pitchfork's Best Of 2008 Guest List (Ryan of the Ruby Suns talking lovely words):
Jornal Folha de S.Paulo: Thiago Ney on blog Ilustrada no Pop:
"Babe, Terror usa elementos diversos (pequenos barulhos, efeitos, palmas, batuques em mesa etc) para compor suas canções, que são ao mesmo tempo lo-fi e ricas em detalhes"
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Hey claudio! hope you've been awesome, man, me you & ruby suns will play when you get your ass to NZ one day, haha! can't wait till we hang out again dude.
haha. yes the new material so far sounds beautiful. i can't wait. ps. are you planning a north american tour anytime soon? i would love to enjoy this live. thanks alot,
man, still buzzing from the show last night.. I haven't heard such a wonderful combination of Beautiful and HEAVY. But a delicate heavy, like a ton of feathers.
