Maps

UKインディとスイス産エレクトロニカ各々の重鎮がアンビエント×エクスペリメンタル縛りコラボ! 2013年ライブでのみ披露した音源が発売へ!

SPACEMEN 3を起点に長年独自路線のサイケデリック / 実験音楽を操りUKインディのトリックスターとして君臨するSONIC BOOMことピーター・ケンパー。スイスのアンダーグラウンドより1990年代から良質なシューゲイザー×エレクトロニカを提供するバンドSINNER DC。それぞれが手にした気持ち良く聴こえる電子音楽の総決算と言えるコラボ作品『MAPS』が到着!

元々は2013年、両者が出演したフェスティヴァル限定で披露されたパフォーマンスと映像が出発地点。10年以上経ちようやく公式リリースされる本作は、アンビエント×エクスペリメンタルを基調に、両者の先鋭的な部分が抽出され煮詰められた濃厚過ぎる内容。再生ボタンを押して直ぐ別世界へ飛ばしてくれるサイケでスペーシーな電子音は、達人の域に到達しないと鳴らせないモノ。ゲームエンジンを使用したMVも本作の没入感にめちゃくちゃ関わってます!

Maps was originally conceived in 2013 as a live performance piece for the Festival La Batie in Switzerland, made in collaboration between Swiss electronics duo Sinner DC and the eternally spaced Sonic Boom, aka Peter Kember. The live performance brought together Sinner DCs refined touch for textural electronica and Kembers dazzled guitar work with mind-altering visuals, creating an experience to overtake the senses. The recorded document of Maps is just as powerful, taking its place in the long line of Kembers otherworldly psychedelic projects. Sinner DC provide ambient sounds, programmed beats, and other dense waves of electronic information, and many songs are overlayed with surreal dialogue from disembodied narrators. This can be grim and shadowy, as with the gothy bass lines and echo-heavy percussion of "Ask for the Moon," or restrained and exploratory, as with the tumbling electronic tom rolls and pulsating synths of the almost-11-minute-long "All Rolled into One." One of the strongest pieces here is "All Show & No Go," and its also one of the most reminiscent of Kembers work in Spacemen 3. Waves of tremolo-spliced guitar distortion drift over a steady electronic kick drum, pounding the song into oblivion until a voice that sounds dangerously close to Lou Reeds begins speaking at a shockingly loud volume over the rest of the mix. Maps is the sound of confusion, updated for a new generation. When it hits its marks, it can be just as beautifully damaged as anything Kember has done before, and just as mysteriously ominous as the rest of Sinner DCs catalog. ~ Fred Thomas