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Review: 'Zeitkratzer'
'Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music'   

-  Album: 'Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music' -  Label: 'Zeitkratzer Productions'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: 'ZKR016'

Our Rating:
Passing over the question of why anyone would want to cover Lou Reed’s infamous ‘Metal Machine Music’ , there remains the question of how one could realise such a project on a practical level. A straight cover would be pointless, for certain, and to adapt the material in any way would produce, well, something else, surely. The Zeitkratzer collective, an avant-garde orchestral ensemble, have taken on some challenging works in the past, from Stockhausen to Whitehouse, but this is surely one of their craziest projects.

Expanding and extending their abridged reinterpretation of Reed’s most bewildering release in 2007, Zeitkratzer’s take is anything but a straight reproduction, but directing and guiding a nine-piece group through four movements recorded live, master of the prepared piano Reinhold Friedl has succeeded in capturing the spirit of Reed’s polyphonic assault.

Tremulous strings, explosive timpani percussion and squealing clarinets collide in a riot of anarchic sound. The press release describes the sound as ‘clangorous’. That doesn’t mean it sounds like the Clangers. It does sound like a teeth-grindingly angular tumult of orchestration. It does sound like nothing else you’ve ever heard, including Metal Machine Music. It does sound... incredible, and it will mess with your head.

Zeitkratzer Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Zeitkratzer - Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music