“Two Archipelagos looks at how different kinds of music-making machines interact, with human intervention often limited to making sure that various forms of noise interfere with each other. Verdun is generally preoccupied with oscillatory sounds, whether generated through analogue feedback loops or repeated digital synthetics. These are the vaguely pulmonary rhythms that come from the warp core aboard the USS Enterprise, or else from your CD player when something goes terribly wrong. Verdun also love to torture electric guitars. Beyond that, the sound’s variety and singularity make it near impossible to describe. The opening track, “Days of Being Wild,” records the interaction between several textures of feedback and repetition, interrupting itself now and then with the static clipping of an over-distorted guitar, or else with the long drone of dissonant chords. The icing on this cake of noise, near the end of the song, is a crystal-clear series of descending synthetic notes, as might come out of a ray-gun. Similar interplay happens in “(Oo)”. We hear the world’s worst garage band—a mutilated electric guitar, a cheap drum kit unskillfully played—but this is so muffled that the garage door might be shut. Then the robotic parents come to complain in their modem-language, and the rest of the song performs the two groups’ dispute: Verdun is about exploring just such contrasts between acoustical and digital noises. In Two Archipelagos, Verdun offers an insightful unfolding of the textural possibilities that our weird technological vector makes possible; this is a record that asks oblique questions and makes strange observations about what music today can and should do. It’s a challenging and rewarding listen.” – Seth Perlow
fantastic sounds you make. keep me posted on your local shows!
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I see you wrote a song titled "Charles Martel". Quite appropriate and actually rather funny. I just had a history exam about the Treaty of Verdun, and I wrote a good two pages on him and Lothaire.
so this is the product of your musical loins is it? i like it. i am back home right now getting ready for more jaunts abroad.might go live in budapest.keep yo ear to tha ground homes.peace out.word.dig?
