Browse by Artist: MENCHE, DANIEL

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Beautiful Blood
Label:	ALIEN8 RECORDINGS (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALIEN 036CD

"The sound on this recording is what one might expect -- insanely powerful drone based music composed of the richly layered sounds of different instruments and field recordings, allowing the listener to pick up on new sounds and subtleties with every listen. This is incredibly unusual music that takes influence from both ambient and noise circles and blends the two to fantastic results. The final product is a very unique style of drone music that has incredibly rich and powerful sound. This work can be compared to works and stylistic approaches taken by the likes of Francisco Lopez, Phil Niblock and Hermann Nitsch, in terms of their use of layering massive drones to create portions of their work."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Creatures of Cadence
Label:	CROUTON
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CROU 032CD

"Despite what the title might suggest, Creatures of Cadence is not about endings, completion, or finality. Instead we find Menche inviting a slew of new mediators into his cathartic miasma. The medium now extends beyond the rich and unfathomable depths of somatic sound. His ongoing dialogue between body and mind has found sympathetic resonators in a myriad of instruments (percussion, cello, horns, and zither) that have proven through the ages of being capable of channeling both our most ecstatic joy and profoundest grief. Creatures of Cadence finds Menche in full exploratory mode; excavating well-concealed networks of sonorous information through a systematic deconstruction of drone and pulse. In the process, he further erases any perceived division between hearing/feeling and performer/instrument. The result, if consumed at the appropriate amplitude, is nothing less than a sixty-minute journey through a voluptuous and pristine mania."

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