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Swiss art/noise terrorist Rudolf Eb.er returns with a new release on A-Musik's always confounding Sieben sub-label. Along with a nice drawing by Rudolf on the labels you get two sides of head-scratching, semi-comical, cartoon squelches interspersed with clanging, unidentifiable percussive sounds and puzzling silences. Occasionally looped noises might suggest a sampler is at work, and strangling throat gurgles suggests the human voice as one possible sound source. Unsafe at any speed, though perhaps especially at 45, the noise loses a bit of the comic appeal at 33rpm, and gains a bit of playful dread. I admire the randomness and completely non-musical quality of the whole thing. Midway through side A (the "Runzelstirn" side), it almost seemed like a beat wanted to take form around the blurred cackles, quacks and fumbling noise- but the track remains enjoyably random almost until the end, where a few moments of locked-groove-like repetition flirt with rhythm. The "Gurgelstock" B-side is sparser and (at least for the first half) the loops seem to dominate the mix, from the clicked vinyl-pop that opens the side to the repeated sequences of samples the recur throughout the track. Gaps of silence remain an integral part of the piece, breaking up any semblance of structure one might look for in the looped bits. The cartoonish feel is even stronger on this side- it is easy to imagine some sort of crazed animated accompaniment to the series of whistles, laughs, creaks, pops and squeals that emerge through the oddly-timed silences.
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