A document of live instrumental improvisation, drums (Ben Eadie) and two Guitars (Matthew Byres and Dirk Kruithol), created in one take. H30 lends heavily towards the psychedelia, predominately from one of the guitarists whose wails and wheals of the guitar create a mélange of noise while often, but not always, the other guitarist provides a more descriptive and structured stance. But perhaps you do not succumb to the notion that noise guitarists are unaware of logic and that the search for abstract noise is not a delving into an irrational world. The presence of experimentation both as activity and in a sense as a genre inform the activities of Forenzics sonic play, it can be seen as free form both as an aesthetic and the state to which the aesthetic alludes.
Drummer Ben Eadie, displays his keen ear and dab hand schooled in the worlds of art jazz, free jazz and associated art rock forms, playing with the language of these domains, controlling and pulling apart his instrument, and it’s forms, creating new patterns to feed back. Clearly H30 is a guitar dominated sound formation whose play with retuned, odd and new found uses of their instruments, along with the aid of copious effects, is forcefully foregrounded. While the experimentation often hides and mutates the languages of the instruments, created from the instruments and placed upon the instruments, the trio show that speaking these in these tongues is something that becomes them as well as new found translations.
Forenzics appeals to a tuned ear, one familiar to the art rock world, high on minimalism, completely rebelling against the structured codes that their chosen instruments lend, yet succinctly reveling in their wielding. Providing powerful new landscapes of sound, abstracted estranged music that is becoming uncannily familiar and growing fonder in the ear of this ‘noise’ avoider.
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