Xenharmonic Tectonics
Collapse, Groove, Singularity
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Xenharmonic Tectonics – Full Album (1:28:01)
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This record begins by declining to behave.
The opening pieces are concerned less with songs than with situations. Sound is treated as material, bent, stacked, interrupted, occasionally left alone to see what it does next. Melody appears sporadically and is not always encouraged. Then it is. Kind of. Rhythm is present, though sometimes it pretends not to be. Silly cycles.
Over time, certain habits develop.
Patterns repeat. Guitars discover they like working in pairs. The rhythm section stops asking questions and starts making decisions and statements. At this point, the music reveals a familiar set of influences (including early-1980s King Crimson, the Levin/Bruford/Belew/Fripp interpretation, specifically their three of a perfect pair of albums), not as a template, but as a reminder that complexity can move, and that Discipline can, under the right conditions, be a plaything.
Vocals are introduced carelessly. They are not here to explain anything. All words are an exercise in Dadaism, purely aleatory. Sound over meaning. So instead, they function as another signal source, percussive, melodic, occasionally argumentative as well as hypocritical. Words are used when useful and ignored, when they get in the way. The voice partly cooperates with the machinery, defers, not dominates it.
As the album continues, restraint gives way to accumulation.
Layers pile up. Grooves become more confident and consistent. What began as angular experimentation gradually discovers momentum, then locks onto it. The arrangements grow denser, louder, and harder to step around. By the later tracks, the music has stopped peeking out and has committed to being exactly as large as it needs to be.
The collection ends where it has been heading all along. Everything happens at once. Structure remains intact, albeit under some strain. The wall of sound holds, and the album concludes at full intensity, having reached the point where adding anything else would only make matters worse.
This recording is best experienced from start to finish. Skipping ahead is allowed, but mildly discouraged. Headphones are mandatory.
Tracks
Concrete Geometry I
Radical Abstraction II
Stochastic Disintegration
Structural Subversion
Xenharmonic Fracture
Xenharmonic Polyrhythm Matrix
Organic Microtonal Matrix
Primal Xenharmonic Architecture
Acoustic Tectonics
Grinding Xenharmonic Dirge
Monolithic Decay
Xenharmonic Tectonic Decay
Stochastic Funeral March
Xenharmonic Monolith II
Xenharmonic Motorik Funk
Tessellated Mercury Funk
Axis Folding Funk
Prominent Vocal Subversion
Angular Guitar Subversion
Tessellated Guitar Chaos
Melodic Percussion Subversion
Dominant Bass Subversion
Tectonic Wall of Sound
Monolithic Saturation Matrix
Structural Collapse Singularity
Xenharmonic Singularity II
Xenharmonic Noise Apocalypse