Unglee Izi

MUSIQUE de L'A.S.M.A.-CHRONOS de TELEHOR et SPACE MODULATOR-Plan I, II, III, IV

Genre: ELECTRONIC

Boomkat Product Review:

Hell-lush, durational spectacles from french artist/activist/enigma Unglee Izi, chasing that killer “Tracteur Directrice…” 2020 album for Nashazphone with an extended new double disc that veers from pin-drop quiet choral excavations to utterly ruinous electro-acoustic grot, sounding something like Kara-Lis Coverdale, TCF and Roland Kayn modelling a cataclysmic cosmic event.

Literally, physically, and metaphorically doubling down on his previous Nashazphone number, Unglee Izi properly pushes into radical phantasmagoric dimensions over two+ hours of immersive and unpredictable gear that seemingly revels at all-extremities of modern composition, gliding from highly resolved harmonic gestures to absolutely crushing assaults on the senses.

Blessed with the vision and sonic mastery of early electronic mavericks, but here articulated with a contemporary voice, the combined works speak to the most atavistic sense of wonder that makes you feel like a speck of dust buffeted by cosmic forces in the grandest scheme of things. Neatly summed up by the label as “delicate music of savage finesse that only wants to address the stars and nothing else”, it is music that firmly encourages you to “lose yourself” in a manner that makes overbearing musical statements worthwhile if you give them due attention for the benefit of your imagination and humility.

The vastness of scale and execution to ‘Musique de l’A.S.M.A.’ recalls titans of experimental electro-acoustic concrète such as Romanian spectralist Iancu Dumitrescu, the religious fervour of Ákos Rózmann, or indeed the grand master of roiling cybernetic scaping, Roland Kayn, while streaked thru with flashes of contemporary brilliance and entrancing pathos found in TCF’s YYAA tape, or K-Lis at her most glacial and testing.

Genuinely staggering stuff for the hardest to please.

2CD (6)