Kallabris
Off Mind 3" CD (E26/JT123)
Kallabris’ scientific research has always been outstanding: their North
Pole expedition, the chemistry of change that can be experienced in
mocha, the ondadynamical theory as a clue for the explanation of mental phenomena — just to mention a few, well-known highlights. This time,
they go for the core of it all: epistemology covered with ontological speculations. The Apologia gives a rough, yet charmingly delivered sketch
of the project — impressions and reflections performed with an impressing beat. The Corpus Maior is a dance of condensed thought, a playful and enchanted rhythm that cheerfully leads to the Epilogus which, with its skeptical melancholy, makes plainly obvious how little is done when the answers are given. A tribute to quest, but in no means to discovery.
See also Kallabris and Outposts
£6.50
Kallabris in Sint-Niklaas, exposing the causa formalis.
Photograph by Lieve Apers
Off Mind is a somewhat elaborate package, set inside a newspaper printed
with philosophical aphorisms about the nature of ‘events’. The first track is
a cut-up of female voice whispering in German over a variety of background
burbles, the second adds a certain drip painting dynamic, the third blends
those together.
Byron Coley in The Wire
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In line with Entr’acte’s impossibly packaged releases, this 3-inch CD comes
in a folded newspaper where every page contains a single sentence, except
for the central two that are blank. Two of the three tracks are constructed
upon a female voice continuously reciting a sort of cut-up litany in German
language: ‘Apologia’ is a warm, involving minimal neurosis with translucent
sounds over a bulky subterranean pulse, while ‘Epilogus’ is a little bit more
agitated, with the electronic sources moving around the voice in a sort of
disembodied telegraphic code. ‘Corpus Maior’ is a short, wordless intermission
that, in a sense, acts as the conclusion of the first track. Quite engrossing stuff, this could be excellent background music for a cyber-sex shop.
Massimo Ricci at Touching Extremes