Harry Towell & Friends * Machinefabriek
Harry Towell and Machinefabriek tap into their network to present a collection of collaborations.
Harry Towell and Machinefabriek tap into their network to present a collection of collaborations.
Three duos that create music that feels like summer: Ecovillage (and friends), Toni Dimitrov & Demetrio Cecchitelli and David Cordero and Miguel Otero.
Two remarkable collaborations: William Basinski and Janek Schaefer, and Liz Harris and Jeffrey Cantu-Ledesma (as Raum).
The sequel to Esther Kokmeijer’s (ant-)arctic videos: Stillness Soundtracks II, by Machinefabriek. Rutger Zuydervelt also collaborated with Bill Seaman on their Movements of Dust album.
“Distant echoes of ancient monastery, choral voices of lost languages, and musical structures of shifting melodic an textural passages reveal that Holographic Codex is a secret code: a precise and skilfully crafted mantra of hypnotic sonic depth and symbolic fragments.”
First: check my last.fm profile so you know that I’m not entirely ‘unbiased’ when reviewing this release.
Michel Banabila and Machinefabriek are firmly at the top of my all-time favourite artists chart (well, to be exact: counting of ‘all-time’ started at 2005 when I “went digital” in listening music).
Both have been extensively featured on this weblog (just do a search on their names to dig deeper) – even if that covers only a small part of their output.
Considering their complete discography, it seems their output is quite different in style – yet their work also has some overlapping areas, especially when it comes to “gritty” electronics.
Knowing they both live in Rotterdam, it was clear that they should meet sometimes. I’ve been waiting for that to happen, but I had no idea if their collaboration would work and what the result might sound like.
So imagine my surprise when, without any introduction or announcement, their collaborative album “Banabila & Machinefabriek” was announced recently.