Lucio Capece & Mika Vainio

Trahnie

Genre: ELECTRONIC

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A meeting of two musicians, both based in Berlin, though from very different backgrounds: readers of these pages will be very familiar with Mika Vainio's work - both as a solo artist for labels like Sahko, Raster Noton and Touch, and as one half of groundbreaking electronics duo Pan Sonic. Lucio Capece approaches his musical experiments from a rather different angle however. The Argentinean reeds player is steeped in a jazz and improv background, suggesting something of a culture clash with the austere electronics of the Finn, and yet this end product of a collaboration between the two is a convincingly powerful and cogent album. On a piece like 'Hondonada' you can scarcely tell who's doing what. Droning woody tones contrast against a tactile, noisy tinkering - like some sort of faulty clockwork device. Elsewhere, extreme noise emissions like 'Sahalaitainen' make for a similarly seamless barrage of acoustic and electronic sounds, and both musicians are clearly in fine voice; 'Juurake' lays down pristine microbeats while Capece fills in the fissures with processed, smashed up sax interjections, melting into a state of frenzied metallic noise that fits beautifully into Vainio's more experimental back catalogue. Joint ventures between electronic artists and jazz musicians seldom tend to run all that smoothly, but these two are sufficiently experimentally minded to make it work, and Trahnie is a ferrocious and energetic meeting of minds.

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