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Nov 12, 2017
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Alexandra Atnif - Rhythmic Brutalism Vol. 1 | EM Records (EM1168LP)
"Rhythmic Brutalism" is the title of this release, also available as a double CD set or two separate 12" vinyl LPs; the title is also a very apt description of the music itself. Romania-born Alexandra Atnif is fascinated by the harsh, grey concrete beauty and minimally repetitive force of the brutalist post-war architecture of her homeland, and this fascination has given rise to the music here. Vol. 1 is an EM Records edition, compiled from an earlier self-released double CD featuring recordings from 2014-15. Vol. 2 consists of previously unreleased recordings from 2015 to 2017. Using elemental, inexpensive technology, Atnifs music is heavy and harsh, stripped down to distressed skeletal frameworks, rhythmic noise, rusting metal and weathered concrete, a distorted DIY realization of her beautifully brutal vision. With a background in European modernist/avant-garde music, Atnif has been influenced by early rhythmic industrial music such as Throbbing Gristle, Esplendor Geometrico and Muslimgauze, as well as later practitioners of rhythm and noise including Pan Sonic, Autechre, Winterkälte, Prurient and Scorn. Across the relatively brief span of years contained within these two volumes, we hear the rhythmic structures begin to fracture and fray, and the outlines darken and become more obscure, with Antif's sensibility evident throughout.
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A1
Pillars Of Insanity
A2
Ephemeral Moments Of Mental Clarity
A3
Adore & Detest
A4
Perspective Transparencies
A5
Acute Anxiety Neurosis
B1
I Said Destroy
B2
Abandon Your Cities
B3
Anthems Of The Deaf & Blind
B4
Live In Shame
B5
Perpetual Demystification
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