Anne-James Chaton continues his ‘Transfer’ series with the third instalment, ‘Flying Machines’. In keeping with the previous two releases and the ‘Envenements’ album, it’s an exercise in postmodern dislocation that’s both clinical and disorientating.
The two tracks, ‘Une Histoire De L’Aviation’ and ‘Sul Volo’ are thematically and sonically interlinked, and both present aspects of fragmentary dismantlement with fractured snippets of dialogue, location recordings and the sounds of everyday life cut across a ponderous guitar.
‘Sul Volo’ is more rhythmically focussed, but on both tracks, the narrative, such as it is, is spoken in an aloof monotone that contrasts with the bustle of the background noise. The experience is strange yet strangely familiar.
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