Sometimes albums contain songs, other times sounds. Here’s a pair of the latter.
Ed Bib has a core team of Sharron Fortnam/voc, Chris Williams/as, Pete Grogan/as-ts, Elliot Galvin/key-p, Liran Donin/b and Mark Holub/dr, occasionally supplemented by some strings, bass clarinet and vocals. The voices get eerie and icy during themes like “Atom Story” and the spacey “Set Sail” while solar systems are explored by Susanna Gartmayer’s bass reed on “It’s Morning.” Shrill tones and funky pulses on “Statrford East” and tenor sax cacophony on “Fold” make for a white knuckler of a ride. What Sci-Fi movie is this a soundtrack to?
The only way that Become The Discovered, Not The Discoverer differs from Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music is that this one includes drums and the songs are shorter. Keji Haino brings blisteringly distorted guitar, bass and electronics, Masami Akita adds frenetic electronics and guitar and Balazs Pandi drums like he’s doing a collection of Alaskan avalanches on pieces like the throbbing “Part I ”of the title track the searing “Part III” and the relentless “Part II” of “I Want To Learn How To Feel Everything…” while an actual bass is heard on “Part I” of this thundercloud. Can I please have my head back?