Review Summary: Two sails and a compass on a sound, reaching for the mind of the misunderstood
Here's to: Narrative. The presence of which might seem like an odd stranger to instrumental music but it's very much present as soon as felt under the wordless melodies/distortions (even for a second) and has stood as one of the invisible delightful keys to success of odder and more adventurous approaches to music (GY!BE come as the most obvious and maybe cliché example; PS: has nothing to do with this sound wise). And herein it helps to the success of the ridiculously dense and hypnotic trip that Klingenberg Am Main contains within its grey cold sharp fuzz.
From the bowels of France, Klingenberg Am Main is the result of a collaboration between growing young heavy drone duo/trio/whatev Burning Black Wizard and colorful basement noise kid Gneiss Rock; both bands the kind of guys to love jamming frantically into the sonic nowhere, for better or worse, out of a haphazard passion for sound. By joining they reach a new sense of maturity and emotional growth within this loud collab freely colliding guitars, field recordings, Korg, theremin, etc...
Concretely the track moves a slowly increasing chaos bringing out the best of both musical worlds into a rather zoned out yet feelsy trip, offering a true psychedelic flair and sense of payoff during its play. In reflection to this, the basic idea of said track was to construct music around Annelise Michele, an epileptic thought at her time to be possessed and whose cure would be starvation alongside the kind of death that comes from utter weakness. Certainly story here provides a much needed sense of direction, purpose and structure to the precedent, sometimes hit or miss approach to music of both bands output; as well as a rather impassioned venture in a genre sometimes plagued with bull*** thickness.
Thus a focused and emotional landscape fusions with the kind of blissful joy and energy of basement jamming into deeper and more ambitious territories of long length epics; all ending up in a pretty damn great piece of sound to fade into until the outro brings back calm in its gales of dust: Chill.
Back to the story. If you feel like hooking up with the kind of youthful, slow-burning but adventurous and twistedly dark psychedelic darling then Klingenberg Am Main'll feed your lust and maybe even heart; so give in for a bit and enjoy the trip carved out by these now young and unknown lads, Annelise's here musical fits'll make you travel out of your skull bones and it's always gonna be sweeter and shorter than old dreams waiting to be realized…
