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centrozoon - the cult of: bibbiboo (cd)
Centrozoon's third album is by far their most ambitious and experimental to date. Fusing looped Soundscapes, critical beats and grand orchestral compositional structures, tco:b is the missing link between Fripp, Stockhausen and Boards Of Canada. Beautifully packaged and replete with surreal sleeve notes from King Crimson biographer Sid Smith, tco:b is a future New Music classic. Tracksthe golden lamb (parts 1-3)
CreditsMarkus Reuter Touch Guitar + Loops
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Lacking any resemblance to music that may have even the smallest miniscule amount of pop sensibility, Centrozoon's The Cult of: Bibbiboo is instrumental art noise. Fusing offbeat electronics with looped soundscapes, there is nothing really here for the average music fan (there are four tracks over 10 minutes in length, one of which was over 20 minutes), but for those type who get a kick out of surreal, scary, eccentric sound collages, this is the record for you.
Trent McMartin (http://www.moregoatthangoose.com)
darker, emotional and beautiful electronic sounscapes...
grendel
Words cannot describe this wonderful aural epic.
Nadim S. Haque
"The Cult of: Bibbiboo" is an experimental conglomeration of sounds, noises, electronics, effects and oddities from Centrozoon - Markus Reuter and Bernhard Woestheinrich. Above and beyond all that, this CD has some of the most ambitious and adventurous music of the new millennium. Markus and Bernhard have taken their art to new levels. The atmospheres border on avant-garde. The textures and timbres are eerie and bizarre. That reads as if this CD is not accessible. It is VERY listenable. The sound design allows for the oddities. Derek DiFilippo’s mix (he also produced) is flawless. Markus’ touch guitars actually sound like guitars at times. Bernhard’s electronics and percussion weave around and through the touch guitar seamlessly. This disc is another essential effort from the folks at Burning Shed. Succinctly, it smokes!
Jim Brenholts
Centrozoon is the unique meeting place of electronic music and the avant-garde, produced by guitarist Markus Reuter and synthesizer player Bernhard Wostheinrich. Reuter was formerly in the Europa String Choir, a trio with a release on Robert Fripp's DGM label, whom Markus studied with. You can hear Fripp's influence in Reuter's advanced chordal sense expressed through the "touch guitar," an eight-stringed instrument that can play simultaneous lead, bass, and rhythm parts, similar to the one used by King Crimson's Trey Gunn. Centrozoon music is not Crimson-style rock however, but a kind of unsettled ambient music similar to Fripp's soundscapes, but coloured by Wostheinrich's academic-type electronic sounds and 70s style string synth chords. Over this Reuter solos and his partner adds occasional rhythms (mainly on the 20-minute title piece). The results are an ambitious synthesis of sounds from the last half of the 20th century, with an ambience of mystery for lovers of dark electronic music.
Chris Twomey