Discography:
The Oxide Heresies (Fflint Central
2000)
Infusorium (Fflint Central
2000)
Peninsula (Fflint Central
2001)
Portals (Fflint Central
2004)
Nocturne Convolute (Fflint Central
2006)
"...you feel exhausted, like you've just BEEN somewhere, experienced SOMETHING. This is not easy listening at all, most Fflint stuff requires some work on the listener's part, some deep listening, every play reveals more sounds and more secrets, each listen builds on the one before, and prepares you for the one after. Which is precisely Pendro's (and Fflint Central in general) blessing AND curse. The sounds here are amazing, the music intense and hypnotic, sounds that make your ears hum, the inside of your head ring like a struck bell, but the sounds are also abstract, difficult, challenging, and maybe too much for the casual listener. But you know what? Fuck the casual listener, this is not casual music, this is music to luxuriate in, to dunk your head in until you run out of breath and start seeing all sorts of strange colors, this is music that gets inside of you, and suffuses all your senses with it's strange glow. This is not background music, this is music that makes everything around it fade into the background. As with all things Fflint, totally and wholeheartedly recommended! "
~ from Review of 'Nocturne Convolute' by Aquarius Records
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*** Various Fflint Central Releases also available as Downloads- HERE
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Pendro tracks also featured on the CD :
"Malpractice - A Fflint Central Primer"- which was released via Birdman Records of California in 2005.
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Collaboration album:
Kenji Siratori + Pendro
"Terminal Machine" - a 10 track collaboration album:
Voice/Spoken Word: Kenji Siratori
Sound Processing/Electronics: Pendro
Released via
Hypermodern Records of Japan
"Here he's teamed up with Japanese writer / musician / sound artist Kenji Siratori, who we heard from recently on the mind blowing Hypergenome666 4cd set with Nordvargr and Beyond Sensory Experience.
And like on Hypergenome666, Siratori is a man of words, literally. His texts are dense and bizarre, strange and so fascinating. For Terminal Machine, Siratori sent recordings of himself reading some of his works and gave Pendro the go ahead to transform those words into abstract sound.
The opening track features Siratori's voice gradually twisted into strange shapes as more and more effects are added, becoming more brittle and metallic, until the words almost sound like the plucking and scraping of steel strings. Later, the words are chopped and reshaped into some lurching post-Autechre IDM skitter, a smear of distorted melody and chittering rhythm, elsewhere the text becomes some droning sci-fi soundscape of processed vocals and FX drenched drones, another track finds the vocals obliterated, the only traces left a skittering, squelchy, splattery soundscape of Fflinty buzz and crumble. The final track is a dark, drifting dronescape, distant metallic buzz, bursts of microscopic grit, bits of high end glimmer and little upper register trills, all drenched in a thick patina of murk and mumble. The human voice twisted and tangled up into some seriously inhuman sounds. Pretty amazing stuff.
Packaged in a slimline case with some seriously disturbing 'meat-y' artwork..."
~ from Review at Aquarius Records
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Tim Jones is also a member of rag 'n' bone plunderers and erstwhile beast with three backs..... TRICLOPS....
....and also contibutes Reviews of some favourite 'UNSUNG' albums at *HEAD HERITAGE* with his esoteric twin... Jim.
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