Watercoloured Well – Arsonist's Rebirthday Audition

Watercoloured Well is, I suppose, onetime gathering of musicians in Germany, that happened after the night of performances in 2011 and ended up in a little experimental jam session. Eight musicians, hangover and Himalayan food. Result of this mix - almost one hour of improvised record that causes dual feelings. At least for me. I'm sorry to say but the names of musicians who took part in this record, don’t ring me a bell, but for the sake of protocol they were Barbara Rössler, Brandstifter, Daniel Voigt, Dirk HülsTrunk, Johannes Lauxen, Mr. Ebu, Ronnie Oliveras, Tanja Roolfs. Most of them are artists, performers, poets and similar bohemia. Well, I look quite carefully and with additional reserve of skepticism to such records of gatherings/parties/weed smokings. More than often they are a rather interesting sonic product for persons who took part in the record and their close friends only. Let's admit, no matter how spiritual, brilliant etc. the session would sound; it can hardly match mature studio record. No matter if it matured in the mind of creator after he saw the kitten shit on the street or after torturing the modular synth for 2 years. This album is really decent and one of the best of such improvisational records that I remember at the moment. In places it reminds me of Bjerga/Iversen, in places it is really nice ambient of Himalayan food inspired tribal. But there are places where it's just messing around with instruments that you can see around far too often and that reminds me of disgusting smell of boutique shops, cute cafes etc. I like the beginning of this disc - tribal rhythms, weird percussions, slowly appearing new instruments and their rather dynamic change, slowly developing into a really nice ambient texture. But in the fourth track "Cosmic Kisses" the irritating part of the album starts. It's quite difficult for me to describe this by portraying sounds, but the odd feeling hover in the air. Later on the reading of the poetry starts somewhere under the layer of instruments and the form of the track turns towards more experimental one. But I can't find anything interesting in it. The album returns to more pleasant sounds in the last track, especially going towards the end. Instruments slowly go more and more silent and the session nicely ends with silence. Maybe it's the contrast of my own mood and this release that does not allow me to review it objectively. But I never said I would be objective. Who will like this CD? People that has something to do with academic art. It also fits as a background for some installation of performance and overall I can imagine it was a nice and cozy meeting of congenials. And Arsonist's Rebirthday Audition is the documentation of it.

Format: CD
Released: 2012
Label: Monochrome vision

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