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Bio/Cría Cuervos/The Beautiful Schizophonic - Symptom of Thisease

This is a split CD between 3 artists. Bio and Cria Cuervos who get a track each and the Beautiful Schizophonic who get three tracks. It would only really be fair if I were to review each bands contribution by themselves , so here I go.
BIO: Bio seem to be a sound collage artist, but a sound collage artist of a very high standard. The 19 minute long track gives us a hugely relaxing intro of chinese wind chimes, gongs and rain fading intocrickets . The thing is that Bio seems to have a fabulous amount of self control, each section seems almost too long, but the effect is actually very hypnotic. Hypnotic to the effect that when the small sections with beats come in it's a big surprise. I really really like this track, it has the same effect on me as a lot of silk saw stuff where it almost blanks my mind completely and I become at peace. Great.
CRIA CUERVOS: Cria Cuervos hit us with a 17 and a half minute track which starts with a minute of low end hum. After the first minute it starts to remind of the tappy percussion on first track off Autechre's Confield album but with extra sound recordings in the background and then turns into a sound collage track. Unfortunately this track is not as well done or interesting as the Bio track. It's still pretty good, but not as good.
THE BEAUTIFUL SCHIZOPHONIC: Three tracks with more traditional (albeit still long) lengths. The first track feels like walking in a huge warehouse with soft angle grinding going on in the background. Much more of a textural piece than a musical piece. The second one is considerably more dynamic with a threatening swelling pit of distortion creeping up on you. The third track is probably great on a super-expensive stereo as it's mostly sub-frequencies. Unfortunately it's almost totally lost on these headphones.

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